MOTAT Collections - Trams

Trams

Auckland Trams Horse (1884–1902) Electric (1902–1956):

• No.11 1902 Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd. Bogie saloon combination. Operational
• No.17 1902 Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd. Bogie Double Decker. Stored
• No.44 1906 Auckland Electric Tramways Co Ltd. Open fronted, Single truck, Saloon. Operational
• No.89 1909 DSC & Cousins & Cousins Ltd. 52-seat bogie saloon. ON Display as 242 in "I am the Last Tram" display.
• No.91 1909 DSC & Cousins & Cousins Ltd. 52-seat bogie saloon. Dining room for Cropper House Restaurant – MOTAT 1
• No.147 1913 DSC & Cousins & Cousins Ltd. 52-seat bogie saloon. Stored
• No.203 1926 DSC & Cousins & Cousins Ltd. 52-seat Art Deco car steel-sided car. Stored
• No.248 1938 Auckland Transport Board’s Royal Oak Workshops. EMB L5 bogied Streamliner. Operational.
• No.253 1940 Auckland Transport Board’s Royal Oak Workshops. EMB L5 bogied Streamliner. Stored.

Wellington Trams Steam (1878–1882) Horse (1882–1904) Electric (1904–1964):

• No.47 1906 Rouse & Black, Wellington. Bogie, open top Double Decker. Operational.
• No.135 1921 Wellington City Corporation Tramways. Bogie Saloon. Operational
• No.244 1939 Wellington City Corporation Tramways. Fiducia one-man safety car. Stored
• No.252 1940 Wellington City Corporation Tramways. Fiducia one-man safety car. Stored
• No.257 1950 Wellington City Transport Department. Fiducia one-man safety car. Operational
• No.301 1911 Wellington City Corporation Tramways. Single-truck freight tram. Operable, but Stored

Wanganui Trams (1908–1950):

• No.10 1912 Boon & Co. Christchurch. Single truck California Combination Car. Stored
• No.21 1921 Boon & Co. Christchurch. Toastrack electric tram trailer. Under restoration.
• No.100 1891 Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. 11-inch cylinders, former Sydney Steam Motor. Imported 1910. Operational

Napier Tramway Remnants (1913–1931): Permanently closed by the Hawkes Bay / Napier earthquake 3 February 1931.

• 3 ft-6in gauge Brush 21E truck is the sole surviving tram remnant from an unspecified Napier tram.

The tram bodies were sold off and the truck was fortunately used as the chassis and wheels for a railway shunter, before being donated in the early 1980s by Robert Holt and Sons’ sawmill at Otane, a northern industrial suburb of Napier. The only piece of fixed infrastructure to survive is the overhead tram shed toughing, which is now installed in the Western Springs Tramway Coachwork shop.

Mornington Cable Trams (1883–1957):

• No.4 (later Dunedin City Tramways No.107) 1883 Jones Car Co, New York. Cable Car trailer. Stored.

Melbourne Trams Cable (1885–1940) Electric (1906–present):

• No.321 1925 Holden Bros, Adelaide. W2 class, bogie drop centre. Operational
• No.893 1944 Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board SW6 class, bogie drop centre. Operational.
• No.906 1945 Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board SW6 class, bogie drop centre. Under Overhaul.
• No.1032 1956 Ansair / Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board W7 class, bogie drop centre. Operational.
• No.3 1920 Essanne Company, Bath, England. Reciprocating Rail Grider. Formally Sydney No.2. Used in Melbourne 1958 until 1971. On Loan Sydney Tramway Museum from 2011. Refer Sydney trams, below.

Sydney Trams (1879–1961) New South Wales Government Tramways:

• No.2 1920s Essanne Company, Bath, England. Reciprocating Rail Grider. Used in Sydney and Newcastle before being sold to Melbourne in about 1958 and renumbered M&MTB No.3. Retired 1971 On Loan Sydney Tramway Museum from 2011.
• No.100 1891 Steam Motor – Exported to Wanganui 1910. Refer Wanganui Trams in section above.
• No.1808 1934 Clyde Engineering, Granville, NSW. R class, bogie drop centre. On loan from the Sydney Tramway Museum. Operational.