E type Adelaide tram

E type
E118 at the Tramway Museum, St Kilda
in September 2010
Manufacturer A Pengelly & Co
Assembly Adelaide
Constructed 1910
Number built 20
Fleet numbers 101-120
Capacity 54
Specifications
Traction motors 2 x 50hp General Electric 202s (as built)
2 x 65hp General Electric 201s (after rebuild)
Current collection method Trolley pole
Bogies JG Brill Company 22E
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)

The E type Adelaide tram was a class of 20 bogie, half open, half closed combination trams with one drop and one straight sill end built by A Pengelly & Co, Adelaide in 1910 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT). In 1918/19, all were remotored with 65hp General Electric 201s with the original 50hp General Electric 202s reused in the C type trams. When the MTT introduced an alpha classification system in 1923, they were designated the E type. In 1936, all were converted to E1s with crossbenches removed and the saloon extended along the full length.[1][2][3][4]

Preservation

Two have been preserved:

References

  1. ↑ Destination Paradise. Sydney: Australian Electric Traction Association. 1975. pp. 22/23.
  2. ↑ "Adelaide's Desert Gold Trams" Trolley Wire issue 237 May 1989 page 4
  3. ↑ "Adelaide's Toastrack Trams" Trolley Wire issue 258 August 1994 page 3
  4. 1 2 E type tram 118 (1910) Tramway Museum, St Kilda
  5. ↑ E type tram 111 (originally built 1910, rebuilt 1936 Tramway Museum, St Kilda
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