Saturday 17 June 2023

Out to East Didsbury from Albert Square ……. on the new tram

I say the new tram, because quite clearly this wasn’t the old fashioned tall stately tram which rattled its way around the city at the start of the last century.

This was the new tram car.

The first  of which was completed in the March of 1930.  By the end of the year another eleven were in service.

In all 38 were built during the next two years, with the last of them appearing in October 1932.*

They were the Pullman, or more commonly called Pilcher, after Mr. Robert Stuart Pilcher, who took over as General Manager of Manchester Corporation Tramways in 1929.

Location; Manchester







Picture; Albert Square to East Didsbury, date unknown, from the collection of Allan Brown

 *The Manchester Tramways, Yearsley, Ian & Groves Peter, 1988
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 April 2021 at 09:32

    These look like the ones we still see operating in Blackpool and surely must have been one of the last to be released before the tram network was dismantled. They look very sleek and streamlined. Damm you, Hitler, who knows how advanced the country's tram system may have become had it not been for your shenanigans

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  2. Geoff Senior5 April 2021 at 12:10

    1939 on a tour organised by the Light Railway Transit League for local transport enthusiasts that also saw it visit Trafford Park

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