It is a water car and
this one was Corporation Tramways Water car No.1 on the Brook Bridge on Barlow
Moor Road sometime around 1930.
Now they seem to come in all sorts of designs, size and shape, but they all did the same job which was to clean the tracks.
Now they seem to come in all sorts of designs, size and shape, but they all did the same job which was to clean the tracks.
And I bet there will be someone out there who either corrects me or supplies further information which I am always happy to have.
I must admit I have wondered on how many there were in the fleet, how regularly they came round and whether we would have seen more of them in the autumn when the leaves were falling or in the hot summer months when the tracks might have needed cooing down, which just goes to show how little I know.
Location; Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Picture; from the Lloyd collection
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