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Leeds tram 24, a Chamberlain new in December 1926, which had a Brush 46/26 body on E.M.B. Pivotal Trucks when new, but was fitted with a Peckham P.35 truck in January 1947.
It is seen reversing in Marsh Lane, having come down York Road from Crossgates and is about to return there. All the York Road trams were terminating at this point on inward journeys, due to a burst water main preventing them running through the City Centre to their normal destinations. The driver struggles to reverse the direction of the bow collector due to the lack of the usual slack loop in the overhead wiring. It was one of two Chamberlains to be fitted with air and mechanical track brakes from 1927 to c1930, and was withdrawn on 2nd March 1956 being burned at Low Fields Road Permanent Way Yard on 13th October 1956.

Photographer unknown, John Kaye collection, Marsh Lane, Leeds

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