The V-class was a class of five 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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from

JG Brill Company The J. G. Brill Company manufactured tram, streetcars,Young, Andrew D. (1997). ''Veteran & Vintage Transit'', p. 101. St. Louis: Archway Publishing. interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and passenger car (rail), railroad cars in ...

kits for the

North Melbourne Electric Tramway & Lighting Company The Australian state of Victoria, Australia, Victoria has a number of defunct energy supply and distribution utility companies. The North Melbourne Electric Tramways and Lighting Company The North Melbourne Electric Tramways and Lighting Company ...

(NMET) as numbers 11-15. All passed to the

Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB) was a government-owned authority that was responsible for the tram network in Melbourne, Australia between 1919 and 1983, when it was merged into the Metropolitan Transit Authority. It had be ...

on 1 August 1922 when it took over the NMET becoming the V-class and renumbered 212-216.

Preservation

One has been preserved: *214 as part of the

VicTrack VicTrack, the trading name of the Victorian Rail Track Corporation, is a business enterprise of the Victorian Government which owns all railway and tram lines, associated rail lands, track corridors and other infrastructure in the state of Vic ...

heritage fleet at Hawthorn depotNorth Melbourne Electric Tramway & Lighting Company No 13
Melbourne Tram Museum

References

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