| Bristol City's Park Royal Utilities: Fleet number C3354 (JAE126) has been rebuilt with lowered bonnet, post-war PV2 radiator and destination indicators, and wears the livery used for repaints in 1950 and 1951. It is operating an extension to Ashton Drive of cross-city, tramway-replacement, service 9, from Hanham to Ashton Gate. This tram conversion was scheduled for late-1939 but the new K5Gs were stored, and the trams retained, to save imported fuel. In 1941, the stored K5Gs entered service on tram-replacement services 8 (Kingswood - City - Bedminster Down) and 9 after the blitz had wrecked the remainder of the tram system. C3354 was the first of the five to gain a post-war body, in 1954, and was the last to be withdrawn, in 1964. Text by John and Christopher Batten, Photo by David Cole |
