Subject: Newcastle C. T. 11 (BVK 801)
Chassis: AEC 664T
Body: English Electric H33/27D
Location: Preston, Dick, Kerr Works
Date: 1935

Numerically the first of Newcastle's trolleybus fleet, 11 was one of thirty of similar design but with three different chassis and three different bodybuilders. These were used to open Newcastle's first trolleybus route from Denton Burn to Wallsend, with services starting on 1-Oct-1935.

The prewar fleet was all of this dual-door configuration on six-wheel chassis and was renumbered in 1946, having 300 added to their existing numbers.

Photograph from the GEC archive