The C type Adelaide tram was a class of 20 drop end, California combination trams built by

Duncan & Fraser Duncan & Fraser Limited was a vehicle manufacturing company founded in 1865 in Adelaide, South Australia that built horse-drawn carriages and horse trams, and subsequently bodies for trains, electric trams and motor cars, becoming one of the larg ...

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in 1918 for the

Municipal Tramways Trust The Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) was established by the Government of South Australia in December 1906 to purchase all of the horse-drawn tramways in Adelaide, South Australia. The Trust subsequently also ran petrol and diesel buses and elect ...

(MTT). All were delivered in 1918, but as they were receiving second-hand motors from the E type trams, the last did not enter service until September 1919. When the MTT introduced an alpha classification system in 1923, they were designated the C type."Adelaide's Desert Gold Trams" ''

Trolley Wire The Sydney Tramway Museum, operated by the South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society, is Australia's oldest tramway museum and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It is located at Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney. History ...

'' issue 237 May 1989 pages 3-10C type tram 186 (1918)
Tramway Museum, St Kilda Because they were much faster than existing trams, they were nicknamed ''Desert Golds'' after a contemporary racehorse. At least 10 were transferred to the isolated

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network in 1930, the last returning after the Albert Park line closed in November 1934. The last was withdrawn in 1953.

Preservation

One has been preserved: *186 by the

Tramway Museum, St Kilda The Tramway Museum, St Kilda is Australia's principal museum of the 19th and 20th century trams of Adelaide, South Australia. It is situated at St Kilda, north of the centre of Adelaide. It is operated by the Australian Electric Transport Muse ...

References

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