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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Thornycroft Vehicles, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Great shot!

Makes you wonder how Air suspension, reclining seats and air conditioning ever caught on doesn't it?

The earliest electric tramcars were converted from the older horse-drawn cars and also some new electric cars were locally built. In the twenty-five years of the Brisbane Tramways Company's control of the fleet was increased from 20 to 181 tramcars, most of these being built in Brisbane with imported electrical equipment. The cars were of various sizes and types ranging from the combination car with a seating capacity of 34 persons, through the 10 bench and 12 bench cars seating 50 to 60 persons respectively, to the center aisle car seating 56 persons but with a capacity to carry 90 persons including standees. When the Trust took over in 1923 there were about 30 of these center aisle cars or Dreadnoughts, as they were popularly called. They were the first cars to have the conductor operating entirely inside the car instead of from the running board. Their disadvantage was that the entrances and exit were at the ends only, causing them to be slow in loading and unloading. However, since more cars were urgently needed and no other designs in detail were available at the time, the Trust made immediate arrangements for the construction of a further 26 of these cars, mostly by private Brisbane firms. Source: www.brisbanetramwaymuseum.org/documents/morwoodtrams.pdf

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nice shot! i like it!