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The trolley was armed with a machine gun turret from a Ferret armoured car. Several examples are preserved in the Royal Malaysian Police Museum, the National Army Museum, Port Dickson and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Memorial in Kuala Lumpur. [7] Target trolleys. Wickham made trolleys adapted for the military as unmanned target trolleys.
Early models of the railway maintenance ganger's Wickham trolley, from 1948, used a vee-twin JAP engine. This drove through a large flat flywheel and a friction drive. [27] In the 1950s other Wickham trolleys used the 600 cc JAP engine and drove through a clutch, tail shaft and bevel drive. [28]
Trolleybuses in Wellington were part of the Wellington public transport system from 1924 until 1932 and again from 1949 until 2017. It was the last trolleybus system operating commercially in Oceania and the last major system operating in a country where driving is on the left side of the road.
New Zealand rail cranes; ... Wickham trolley; Work train This page was last edited on 11 September 2023, at 04:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
There have been four different railcars on the line, all Wickham trolleys, starting with Air Ministry No. 1 which arrived in Air Force Blue livery, but was repainted into yellow and black (Civil Aviation Authority colours) in the 1960s; it has since been sold to a private owner and shipped to the UK in June 2007 for restoration. The second car ...
The Rowtor Target Railway was built 1959 as a target railway based on an older target railway. [1] The 1,480-foot (450 m) long track consists of a long straight section and one curve, to which balloon loops were added each end as well as a double track siding into the locomotive shed, in which an old Wickham trolley was stored.
Wickham trolley: M/C 3340 – 6t Motor Crane, built by Ransomes & Rapier. Believed ex-Dereham station. Not a rail-mounted vehicle. Great Eastern Railway – – 1t Horse-Drawn Yard Hand Crane. Ex-Watton station. Not a rail-mounted vehicle.
Public transport in the Wellington Region, branded under the name Metlink, is the public transport system serving Wellington and its surrounding region.It is the most used public transport system in New Zealand per capita, [a] and consists of electric and diesel buses, suburban trains, ferries and a funicular [b] (the Wellington Cable Car).