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Last Updated: 29 Sep 2015

SUMMARY OF CARS

Summarizing the trams that operated in Liverpool is difficult due to the various reasons. These include:- the fact that different companies existed before deprivatization in 1897, there are missing records, the operator had a policy of renumbering cars and reusing old numbers and finally older cars were often rebuilt and updated with modern features used on newer class cars. A number of the car designs are named after the managers and engineers of the time. These include Bellamy, Mallins, Priestly, Robinson and Marks. Here is an attempt to provide a summary of the fleet since the creation of a dedicated tram system in Liverpool in 1869.

Car Type Picture Years Used Numbers
Horse Cars
8 Basic Types operated during the period of a "tramway system" in Liverpool.
  1869-1900   
Altona Cars
Liverpool's first (single deck) electric cars. Trailers were the odd numbered cars.
1898-1900 400-415
Ringbahn Cars
Single deck motor and trailer sets.
1898-1900 416-429
Dick Kerr Tram
With Curtis truck.
  1899 430
Brill Car
With Brill Type 21E truck.
    431
Brill 'Philadephia' Cars
Single deck American built cars. Cars 6,8 & 12 were rebuilt as double deckers or 'Oceanics'.
1898-1933 6-20
or
432-446
Milnes BTH Cars
Double deck cars on Peckham trucks.
1899-1921 21-32
or
447-458
Brush Cars
Double deck open top cars on Peckham trucks. 5 cars were returned as being unsatisfactory.
1899-1900 459-468
Westinghouse Cars
Open top cars that were not entirely satisfactory.
  1899-1913 43-47
Little Emma Cars
Dick Kerr 'Preston' cars originaly built as open top.
1899-1921



1899-1920s
33-42
or
469-474

54-133
& 141
Lambeth Road Cars
First electric cars built by the Corporation (at Lambeth Road Works) in Liverpool
1899-1929 48-53
or
479-484
Bellamys
Standard double deck trams built by Dick Kerr and from 472 at Lambeth Road Works in Liverpool.
1907-1937
1900-1930s
1902-1938
1907-1949
1-4
142-441
442-483
484-570
Single Ended Car
With Curtis truck. Converted to double end and later with a Bellamy top cover.
  1900- 5
Reversed Stair Cars
Open top double deck cars later given Bellamy top covers.

4 were built in the transition period between the short Bellamy car with open balconies and the extended top over Mallins cars.
 
1901-1929

1913-1946

134-140

573-576
Experimental Bogie Car
The first Liverpool car built (on Brill 27G trucks) with a fully enclosed upper deck.
1913-1929 572
Double Staircase Cars
Built at Lambeth Road Works with two staircases at each end to improve passenger flow.
1913-1951 571
577-602
Mallins Balcony Cars
  1920-1954 603-608
634-636
English Electric Balcony Cars
Built by English Electric while Lambeth Road tram building was suspended for the war effort.
1919-1948 609-633
Priestly Standard Cars
A large group of 1920s cars.
1924-1951
1921-1952
1921-1952

1927-1951
637-720
1-149
301-471
& 572
733-744
Short EMB Standard Cars
Radial truck cars with 20' saloons.
  1927-1952 721-732
Long EMB Standard Cars
20' saloon cars originally with radial trucks and open platforms.
1927-1952 745-756
Prototype Subway Car
Single deck tram intended to be first of a fleet for use in the lower half of the Queensway Mersey Tunnel before the idea was abandoned.
1929-1935 757
English Electric Cars
The first complete class built at the new Edge Lane Works. Totally enclosed bogie cars.
1931-1955 758-769
Priestly Bogie Cars
The first cars with the new green livery of 1933 and the original 'green goddesses'. Fitted with EMB Heavyweight trucks.
1933-1953 770-781
Robinson Cabin Cars
Originally built with an enclosed separate cab for the motorman.
1933-1955 782-817
Marks Bogie Cars
Similar to Cabin Cars but with a return to a traditional layout with open platforms.
1935-1945 818-867
Bogie Streamliner Cars
High capacity powerful cars representing the ultimate in 1930s tram design.
1936-1956
1937-1956
868-992
151-188
Baby Grand Cars
An economy version of the streamliner with a shorter body and single EMB 9' truck.
1937-1957 201-300