San Francisco Tram Cablecar RRP £99.99) - Our price £90.00 In Stock

Cable Trams are a true icon of San Francisco. The first tram of this type work in London. Years later, Andrew Smith Hallidie tested on 2 August 1873, at Clay Street, the first cable tram in San Francisco. After 136 years, these are attractive vehicles through the streets of the city, forming an inseparable part of their daily lives.
The system is based on a cable driven, at a constant speed along the route by a stationary engine. The tram is in motion when a clamping device, called a grip, is connected to cable pressure. By loosening this pressure, combined with the application of the brakes, the car stops.
Today there are two fleets in service. One is the Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason. The other is the California Street that owns the No. 60 tram which we reproduce in our model, constructed by MUNI (San Francisco Municipal Railway) in 1998 and entered service in 2002.
This car is based on the original built by John Hammond & Company for the California Street Cable Railroad Company in 1906. After earthquake and fire of April 1906 re-built in the renovated workshops Hammond with No. 16, becoming the No. 60 in 1957 by the MUNI.
It was renovated in 1968-69, in workshops MUNI Elkton, using the roof and the original seats.

Soller 1:24 Tram - RRP £99.99 - Our Price £90.00 - In Stock

Mallorca’s first electric tram, running between Soller and the Port of Soller, was inaugurated on 4th October 1913.
The project for this line was designed and directed by Pedro Garau, with over two and a half miles of track being laid. One of its outstanding features was the iron bridge over the Torrent Major.
To begin with the tramline had its own electrical power plant, alongside the Soller station. This power plant was driven by a 65 HP explosion engine, which drove a dynamo that provided DC power at 600 volts.
The model tram we present is the AAB FHV-2, belonging to the company Ferrocarril de Sóller, S.A. Built in 1929, the mechanics by Carde & Escoriaza and the electrics by Siemens.
The tram uses a pantograph to pick up the electrical current, a voltage of 1200 Vcc. It is fitted with 4 Siemens-Schuckert traction motors with an output of 360 kW (90 kW x 4) and is also fitted with both electrical and vacuum braking systems.

Berlin 1:24 Tram RRP £99.99 - Our Price £90.00 - In Stock

This vehicle was the oldest of the Berlin electric motor car trams. It was no. 40 and operated in the West Berlin suburbs: "Westliche Berliner Vorortbahn".
It is the type of motor car trams called the "Neu-Berolina", the use of which used to be widespread.
In 1903 the side and front wall protectors were installed around the running gear, to avoid people being knocked down and dragged under the wheels.
With the unification of Berlin’s municipal transport companies in 1920, this tram ended up belonging to the company "Berliner Strassenbahn", no. 3851, later on denominated A 114.
The tram was manufactured by Böker & Cie, Remscheid and remained in service from 1901 right through to 1943.
It was fitted with two 16. 7 kW AEG motors, was 28 feet long, 6 ½ feet wide and 11 feet high, and weighed in when empty at 8.5 tonnes.
It had sitting room for 20, plus another 12 standing.

Tram Kit - Postage & Packing £7.50

Our Tram Motorising Kit is now available

(Just need assembling, wiring and gluing where necessary. Full instructions are provided)