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Leeds City Tramways VAMBAC No. 602
Leeds 602 is an experimental tramcar built for Leeds Corporation Tramways in 1953. It operated in its home city until 1957, when it was acquired for preservation at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire. It currently on display in the museum's Exhibition Hall. The tramcar is the only vehicle at Crich to use VAMBAC (Variable Automatic Multinotch Braking and Acceleration Control), and one of only four in the country - two of which are at Blackpool, and the other being at the East Anglia Transport Museum. History Leeds 602 was one of three experimental tramcars built for Leeds City Tramways, the others being Leeds 600, and Leeds 601. Car 602 entered service on 1 June 1953, and was built by bus manufacturer Charles H Roe. The design of 602 owes a lot to the Glasgow Cunarders and Coronations A coronation ceremony marks the formal investiture of a monarch with regal power using a crown. In addition to the crowning, this ceremony may include the presentation of other it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire, has a large and diverse collection of heritage tramcars, and aims to illustrate the complete development of the traditional British Tramcar. Where it is not possible to show this, tramcars from places as far away as Berlin, the Hague, Douglas, Isle of Man, Douglas, Halle (Saale), Halle, Howth, Johannesburg, New York City, Porto, Prague and Sydney have been acquired to show this. The majority of the trams at Crich are double-deck trams built between 1900 and 1930, and several have open tops. There are a few trams in the collection that were built after the Second World War, and these give an idea of how the British Tram Industry may have developed if services had not declined. The museum have part of their website dedicated to the histories of the trams in their collection which can be founhere Fleet list Passenger trams Works trams and vehicles Buses References {{UK light rail vehicles Tram vehicles of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
