Bolton Corporation Tramways

Tram Fleet Summary
1900-1947

Year in Service

Fleet No.

Type

Trucks

Body

1900

1-40

Double-deck open-top 4-wheel

Brill 21E

ERTCW

 

41-48

Double-deck canopy 4-wheel

Brill 21E

ERTCW

 

49

Double-deck open-top bogie

Brill 21E

ERTCW

1901

50-59

Double-deck open-top bogie

Brill 21E

Brush

 

60-81

Double-deck canopy bogie

Brill 21E

ERTCW

1903

82-86

Double-deck open-top 4-wheel

Brill 21E

ERTCW

1906

87-96

Double-deck open-top 4-wheel

Brill 21E

ERTCW

1910-12

97-103

Double-deck top-covered bogie

Brill 21E

UEC

 

104-106

Single-deck combination bogie

Brill 21E

UEC

 

107-112

Double-deck top-covered bogie

Brill 21E

UEC

1921

113-120

Double-deck top-covered bogie

Brill 22E
max.trac.

English Electric 44/30

1923

121-130

Double-deck top-covered bogie

* (?)

English Electric 48/34

1924

131-138

Double-deck top-covered bogie **

Brill

Brush (1906)

1927

139-150

Double-deck fully-enclosed bogie

Brill 22E
max.trac.

English Electric 48/29

1928

104-106

Double-deck fully-enclosed bogie***

Brill 21E (?)

English Electric

1933

33-40

Double-deck covered bogie****

(?)

Milnes

In 1940 the remaining tram fleet was renumbered by adding 300 to existing fleet numbers.

1943

331

Double-deck fully-enclosed 4-wheel*****

Maguire

Bury Corporation 22/34

 

451-453

Double-deck enclosed bogie*****

English Electric

English Electric 32/48

* Trucks supplied by Bolton CT.
** Ex-Sunderland Corporation.
*** Bodies only supplied by English Electric - presumably fitted to bogies of original single-deck cars 104-106.
**** Ex-South Lancashire Transport (44/5/7/8/50/4/5/8)
***** Ex- Bury Corporation 21(331), 55/6/8 (451-453).
All trams were withdrawn by 29th March 1947.

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