Specification
The articulated units were in two-car sets comprising one motor car and one trailer car sharing a common centre bogie. The outer bogie of each motor car carried two electric traction motors. The passenger cars had bucket seats and manually operated sliding doors. The luggage compartments had double sliding doors. The motor parcel vans, which had four motors, were permitted to haul a tail load of up to 100 tons.
- Builder, Metropolitan-Cammell
- Electrical supply, 630V DC
- Traction motors, Crompton Parkinson,
- continuous rating, 154 hp, 210 amp
- 1-hour rating, 216 hp, 295 amp
- Total output (continuous),
- articulated sets, 308 hp (2 motors)
- motor luggage vans and motor parcel vans, 616 hp (4 motors each vehicle)
- Gear ratio, 71:18
- Brakes, electro-pneumatic
- Sanding, pneumatic
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