Adelaide's Type F trams (original) (raw)

(Bogie drop-centre cars)

Nos: 201 - 250
Introduced: 1922
Withdrawn: 1958
Electrics: 4 x 40hp GE247B or DK84B motors
Size: 49 ft x 8ft 10in
Seating/Crush load: 60/170

This is Adelaide's drop centre tram design. These trams becamse the mainstay of the Adelaide fleet. Seventeen of these cars had their seating capacity reduced to 56 seats when a driver's door was fitted to the saloon bulkhead.

Preserved F trams

Under restoration:

• No. 244, at Australian Electric Transport Museum. This tram body was being used as a shack at Murray Bridge. It will be restored using W2 trucks from Melbourne.

F1

Nos: 251 - 284
First introduced: 1925
Last withdrawn: 1958
Electrics: 4 x 40hp DK84B motors (251-262), 4 x 50hp DK105F motors (remainder)
Size: 49 ft x 8ft 10in
Seating/Crush load: 60/170

These are similar to the F's, except that they had all steel underframes. Twenty two of them had their seating capacity reduced later in the same way as the type F trams.

Preserved F1 trams

Operating type F1 trams:

• No. 264, returned to operating condition using trucks and motors from a Melbourne W2-class tram, at the Australian Electric Transport Museum
• No. 282, at the Australian Electric Transport Museum

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Thanks to [7] Tim Blythman and [12] John Radcliffe for this information.

[25] Thanks to Kym Smith for updated information about type F at AETM.