SUMMARY OF CARS

Summarizing the trams that operated in Liverpool is difficult due to the various reasons. These include:- the fact that different companies existed before deprivatization in 1897, there are missing records, the operator had a policy of renumbering cars and reusing old numbers and finally older cars were often rebuilt and updated with modern features used on newer class cars. A number of the car designs are named after the managers and engineers of the time. These include Bellamy, Mallins, Priestly, Robinson and Marks. Here is an attempt to provide a summary of the fleet since the creation of a dedicated tram system in Liverpool in 1869.

Car Type	Picture	Years Used	Numbers
Horse Cars 8 Basic Types operated during the period of a "tramway system" in Liverpool.		1869-1900
Altona Cars Liverpool's first (single deck) electric cars. Trailers were the odd numbered cars.		1898-1900	400-415
Ringbahn Cars Single deck motor and trailer sets.		1898-1900	416-429
Dick Kerr Tram With Curtis truck.		1899	430
Brill Car With Brill Type 21E truck.			431
Brill 'Philadephia' Cars Single deck American built cars. Cars 6,8 & 12 were rebuilt as double deckers or 'Oceanics'.		1898-1933	6-20 or 432-446
Milnes BTH Cars Double deck cars on Peckham trucks.		1899-1921	21-32 or 447-458
Brush Cars Double deck open top cars on Peckham trucks. 5 cars were returned as being unsatisfactory.		1899-1900	459-468
Westinghouse Cars Open top cars that were not entirely satisfactory.		1899-1913	43-47
Little Emma Cars Dick Kerr 'Preston' cars originaly built as open top.		1899-1921 1899-1920s	33-42 or 469-474 54-133 & 141
Lambeth Road Cars First electric cars built by the Corporation (at Lambeth Road Works) in Liverpool		1899-1929	48-53 or 479-484
Bellamys Standard double deck trams built by Dick Kerr and from 472 at Lambeth Road Works in Liverpool.		1907-1937 1900-1930s 1902-1938 1907-1949	1-4 142-441 442-483 484-570
Single Ended Car With Curtis truck. Converted to double end and later with a Bellamy top cover.		1900-	5
Reversed Stair Cars Open top double deck cars later given Bellamy top covers. 4 were built in the transition period between the short Bellamy car with open balconies and the extended top over Mallins cars.		1901-1929 1913-1946	134-140 573-576
Experimental Bogie Car The first Liverpool car built (on Brill 27G trucks) with a fully enclosed upper deck.		1913-1929	572
Double Staircase Cars Built at Lambeth Road Works with two staircases at each end to improve passenger flow.		1913-1951	571 577-602
Mallins Balcony Cars		1920-1954	603-608 634-636
English Electric Balcony Cars Built by English Electric while Lambeth Road tram building was suspended for the war effort.		1919-1948	609-633
Priestly Standard Cars A large group of 1920s cars.		1924-1951 1921-1952 1921-1952 1927-1951	637-720 1-149 301-471 & 572 733-744
Short EMB Standard Cars Radial truck cars with 20' saloons.		1927-1952	721-732
Long EMB Standard Cars 20' saloon cars originally with radial trucks and open platforms.		1927-1952	745-756
Prototype Subway Car Single deck tram intended to be first of a fleet for use in the lower half of the Queensway Mersey Tunnel before the idea was abandoned.		1929-1935	757
English Electric Cars The first complete class built at the new Edge Lane Works. Totally enclosed bogie cars.		1931-1955	758-769
Priestly Bogie Cars The first cars with the new green livery of 1933 and the original 'green goddesses'. Fitted with EMB Heavyweight trucks.		1933-1953	770-781
Robinson Cabin Cars Originally built with an enclosed separate cab for the motorman.		1933-1955	782-817
Marks Bogie Cars Similar to Cabin Cars but with a return to a traditional layout with open platforms.		1935-1945	818-867
Bogie Streamliner Cars High capacity powerful cars representing the ultimate in 1930s tram design.		1936-1956 1937-1956	868-992 151-188
Baby Grand Cars An economy version of the streamliner with a shorter body and single EMB 9' truck.		1937-1957	201-300