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C type Adelaide tram
🇦🇺 Australia ·built by Duncan & Fraser· from 1918· class of 20th-century tram in Adelaide
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Adelaide Tram 186: Peripitus· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The C type Adelaide tram was a class of 20 drop end, California combination trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide in 1918 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (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.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 108 years ago, in 1918.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1918
- number built
- 20
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- builders
- Duncan & Fraser
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- weight
- 11.2 t
- capacity
- 40 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q48792479, Wikipedia: C type Adelaide tram (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.