B type Adelaide tram

B type
B42 at the Tramway Museum, St Kilda
in January 2007
Manufacturer Duncan & Fraser
Assembly Adelaide
Constructed 1909
Number built 30
Fleet numbers 31-60
Capacity 50
Specifications
Car length 9.91 metres
Width 2.57 metres
Height 3.30 metres
Weight 10.6 tonnes
Traction motors 2 x 33hp Westinghouse
Current collection method Trolley pole
Bogies JG Brill Company 21E
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)

The B type Adelaide tram was a class of 30 straight sill, open cross-bench trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide in 1909 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT). Although popular in summer, they were less so in winter when exposed to inclement weather. Thus in 1917 with the MTT requiring more trams, 41-60 were converted to Californian combination trams, closely resembling the A type trams. When the MTT introduced an alpha classification system in 1923, they were designated the B type. Numbers 41-43 became the A2 type and 44-60 the A1 type. The A2s were used exclusively on the isolated Port Adelaide network.[1][2][3]

Preservation

One has been preserved:

References

  1. ↑ Destination Paradise. Sydney: Australian Electric Traction Association. 1975. pp. 14, 15, 18.
  2. ↑ "Adelaide's Toastrack Trams" Trolley Wire issue 258 August 1994 pages 3-14
  3. 1 2 B type tram 42 (1909) Tramway Museum, St Kilda
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