Postcard: London open bilevel horse-drawn tram 14 in the museum of British Transport (1955)
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Publisher: J. Arthur Dixon.
Date: 1955.
City: London (United Kingdom).
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London Transport Museum
Open regularly
London open bilevel horse-drawn tram 14 (ex Douglas, Isle of Man open bilevel horse-drawn tram 14), painted Douglas Corporation Tramways.
Description
Built by Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company of Birmingham in 1883, the car was purchased second-hand from the South Shields Tramway Company. It is a four-wheeled vehicle with a track gauge of 3 feet and seats twenty inside and twenty-four on the top deck. It was the last double-deck horse-drawn tramcar to operate in the Isle of Man and a typical example of the double-deck knifeboard car which was very common in this country from 1860 until 1900 and probably the oldest double-deck horse-drawn tramcar in Britain. The vehicle is preserved at the museum of British Transport, London. S.W.4
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