List of tram builders

This is a worldwide list of tram builders. Trams may also be called streetcars or trolleys in certain countries. These companies are, or at one time were, manufacturers of genuine trams/streetcars. Makers of replica-tram buses are not listed.

Argentina

• CATITA
• Fabricaciones Militares
• Materfer

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Australia

• Randwick Tramway Workshops, Sydney, NSW
• Hudson Brothers, Sydney, NSW
• Clyde Engineering, Sydney, NSW
• Bignall and Morrison, Sydney, NSW
• Ritchie Brothers, Auburn, Sydney, NSW
• E. Chambers, Sydney, NSW
• Walsh Island Dockyard, Newcastle, NSW
• Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Sydney, NSW
• Newstead Tram Cars – Historic-tramcar replicas
• Bendigo Tramways Historic-tramcar replicas
• Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide, SA
• Commonwealth Engineering
• Meadowbank Manufacturing Company, Sydney, NSW
• Holden Motor Body Builders. Later to become General Motors Holden.

Austria

• Simmering-Graz-Pauker (SGP)

Belarus

• Belkommunmash

Brazil

• Bom Sinal

Bulgaria

• Tramkar

Canada

• Bombardier Transportation - Thunder Bay, Ontario
  • Urban Transportation Development Corporation - Thunder Bay, Ontario 1973–1990s (used old CC&F plant)
  • Hawker Siddeley Canada - Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1962–2001 (old CC&F plant)
  • Canadian Car and Foundry - Montreal, Quebec,^[1] 1909–1913; 1940s
• Ottawa Car Company - Ottawa, Ontario, 1891–1948^[1]
• Preston Car Company - Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge, Ontario), 1908–1921, bought by Brill^[1]
• Toronto Railway Company - Toronto, Ontario, 1891–1920, wooden cars for mostly in-house use only, but built some cars for Mexico and Western Canadian operators by subsidiary Convertible Car Company of Toronto
• James Crossen-Cobourg Car Works - Cobourg, Ontario, 1890–1915

China

• Bombardier Transportation, China
• CRRC

Croatia

• Crotram
• Đuro Đaković (factory)  Croatia (produced trams, 1957–1993)
• ZET Zagreb (produced trams, 1922–1951)

Czech Republic

• ČKD (1951–1999)
• Inekon Trams
• Pragoimex
• Škoda Transportation

Finland

• Transtech (subsidiary of Škoda Transportation)

France

• Alstom

Germany

• Adtranz (also in Sweden; bought out by Bombardier in 2001)
• DUEWAG (sold to Siemens in 1999)
• Gothaer Waggonfabrik
• Siemens

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Tramways

Hungary

• Ganz (subsidiary of Škoda Transportation)

India

• Bharat Earth Movers Ltd.
• Jessop India Ltd.
• Premier Manufacturer

Italy

• AnsaldoBreda
• Firema Trasporti SpA
• Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali

Japan

• ALNA Sharyo
• Japan Transport Engineering Company
• Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company
• Kinki Sharyo
• Niigata Transys Company
• Nippon Sharyo
• Hitachi
• Sapporo Sougou Tekkou Kyodoukumiai

Latvia

• RVR (Rīgas Vagonu Rupnīca) (ex—"Fenikss")

New Zealand

• DSC Cousins and Cousins Ltd, formerly Cousins and Atkins Ltd
• Henderson and Pollard Ltd, Auckland
• Auckland Electric Tramways
• Auckland City Corporation Tramways
• Auckland Transport Board
• Boon & Co, Christchurch
• Lyons and Co, Wellington
• Rouse and Hurrell Ltd, Wellington
• Rouse and Black, Wellington
• Wellington City Corporation
• Dunedin City Corporation Tramways

Poland

• FPS "Cegielski"
• Konstal
• Newag
• PESA Bydgoszcz
• Protram
• Solaris

Romania

• Astra Vagoane Arad
• Electrometal Timișoara (1972–1990)
• Electroputere Craiova
• Electroputere VFU Pașcani
• U.R.A.C. Bucharest

Russia

• Saint Petersburg Tramway-Mechanical Plant
• Ust-Katav Vagon-Building Plant
• Uraltransmash
• PK Transportnye Sistemy

Spain

• Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF)

Sweden

• Adtranz (also in Germany; bought out by Bombardier in 2001)

Switzerland

• Schindler Waggon
• Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG)
• Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich (SWS)
• Stadler

Turkey

• Durmazlar (Bursa Silkworm)

Ukraine

• Electron corporation
• Tatra-Yug

United Kingdom

• Brush Electrical Engineering Company
• Dick, Kerr & Co.
• English Electric Company
• Maley & Taunton
• TRAM Power Ltd—Citytram

United States

• American Car Company (1891–1931)^[1]
• J. G. Brill Company (1868–1956, but streetcar production ended in 1941)^[1]
• Brookville Equipment Corporation (2002–)
• Cincinnati Car Company (1902–1938)^[1]
• Edwards Rail Car Company (1997–2008) – Historic-streetcar replicas
• Gilbert Car Company (1840s–1895)^[1]
• Gomaco Trolley Company (1982–) – Historic-streetcar replicas
• W. L. Holman Car Company (1883–1913)^[1]
• Jewett Car Company (1894–1918)^[1]
• G. C. Kuhlman Car Company (1892–1932)^[1]
• Niles Car and Manufacturing Company (1901–1917)
• Pullman Company/Pullman Standard (1891–1952 for streetcars)
• St. Louis Car Company (1887–1973)^[1]
• John Stephenson Company (1831–1917)^[1]
• Perley A. Thomas Car Works (1917–1936; bus manufacturer from 1936 on)
• United Streetcar, LLC (2005–2015) – Low-floor modern streetcars

See also

• List of rolling stock manufacturers
• List of locomotive builders
• List of railway companies

References