MTOC cable tram bogie trailer No 190
This twelve-window bogie tram trailer car was spliced together from a
combination of either two six-window cable or horse tram trailers about
the time of the First World War. They followed on from the success of
the purpose built bogie cable car trailers and were only used on Elizabeth
Street to Brunswick line. They were all retired in 1935, and the body
of this tram was sold off to a property west of Geelong, from which location
it was recovered in 1998 by the TMSV.
It is planned to reverse the splicing that produced this tramcar, producing
two six window trailer cars. One of these would be a cable trailer as
used on the West Melbourne or Toorak routes, the other a horse tram used
on the Hawthorn or Kew routes.
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