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With over 14,000 units, Tatra T3 is the most widely produced type in history. [1]A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
Trolleybuses were built on AEC, Leyland and British United Traction (BUT) chassis. [9] Apart from the Diddlers and a few experimental vehicles, most London trolleybuses were near-identical. In 1941 and 1943 London Transport acquired 43 trolleybuses that had been ordered for South Africa but could not be shipped there because of the war. [10]
Tram, or trolley or streetcar, a rail vehicle that runs on tramway tracks; Trolleybus, or trolley, an electric bus drawing power from overhead wires using trolley poles Trolleytruck, a trolleybus-like vehicle used for carrying cargo; Tourist trolley, a rubber-tired bus designed to resemble an old-style streetcar or tram
The moving cable would physically pull the car up the hill at a steady pace, unlike a low-powered steam or horse-drawn car. Cable cars do have wheel brakes and track brakes, but the cable also restrains the car so that it goes downhill at a constant speed (9 mph in San Francisco). Performance in steep terrain partially explains the survival of ...
This is a list of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom by Home Nation and by regions of England.It includes: Past trolleybus systems in the UK. Museums in the UK capable of running trolleybuses (i.e. possessing overhead wires and trolleybuses in working order).
Heritage streetcar (also known as heritage trolley or vintage trolley) is an American term for streetcar systems that use vehicles that were built before 1960, or modern replicas of such vehicles. Cable car is an American word for a passenger rail vehicle attached to a moving cable located below the street surface and powered by engines or ...
Karrier was a British marque of motorised municipal appliances and light commercial vehicles and trolley buses manufactured at Karrier Works, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, by Clayton and Co. (Huddersfield) Limited. They began making Karrier motor vehicles in 1908 in Queen Street South, Huddersfield.
Wickham Armoured Trolley. A total of 42 units of an armoured version was produced in 1952 for use by the British Army and security forces during the Malayan Emergency, intended to prevent sabotage of narrow gauge rail lines by communist insurgents. The trolley was armed with a machine gun turret from a Ferret armoured car.