Birmingham Tram 147 and other Birmingham Tram Photos

My Bus Photos

13th March 2007

In the late 1970,s next door to the Clock pub on the Coventry Rd, near to the N.E.C. you would have found a Birmingham Tram 147

Sadly it is thought that the tram was not saved for preservation and was broken up, unles you know different

Tram 147 was a part of the 71-220 group of trams that were built sometime in 1906/7 and was U.E.C. double Deck top covered, with M and G radial trucks and Dck Kerr electrical equiment, open Verandahs and normal half turn statirs were fitted , the seating was 28/24

The platforms were vestibuled circa 1920, the the whole class were re-trucked between 1923 and 1928 as follows
82/9, 101/46/52/63, 213 U.E.C. trucks
152/6173 Brush trucks
115/57/8/68 208 Conaty trucks (ex C.B.T. Company
remainder Peckham P35 trucks
all the cars were re motered , 102 with General Electric equipment and 48 with Dick Kerr eqiupment

all were withdrawn by 1950

source the P.S.V. Circle, The Ominibus Society, publication PD10

Robert Deloyde

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