Subject: Bolton C. T. 81
Maker: Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works, Preston
Seating: 46/30
Bogies: Brill 22E
Motors: 2 x DK35A 35 hp?
Controller: Dick, Kerr DE1 Form B
Location: Preston, Dick, Kerr works
Date new: 1902

81 was the last of a batch of twenty-two open-top bogie cars new in 1901-02. The vestibuled ends were relatively unusual at the time and even more so in combination with the reversed staircase.

The batch received top covers by 1914 and at around the same time were upgraded with DK9 or DK9A 40 hp motors and new DK DB1 K3B controllers.

Photograph from the GEC Archive