Thank you for your patience while we retrieve your images.
Taken 26-Dec-20
Visitors 50


« Previous Next »
13 of 31 photos

P4033

Subject: Portsmouth C. T. 9 (RV 4657)
Chassis: Karrier E4
Body: English Electric H26/24R
Location: Preston, Dick, Kerr Works
Date: 1934

9 was one of just two Karrier trolleybuses bought by Portsmouth, the other having a Metro-Cammell body. This one had English Electric control gear and motor (the other being BTH).

Like the other early nrolleybuses it was stored from 1940 to 1946. It was one of the earliest withdrawals, last running in 1949.

Photograph from the GEC archive

Categories & Keywords
Category:Transportation
Subcategory:Buses
Subcategory Detail:
Keywords:CPPTD, Dick Kerr, E4, English Electric, Karrier, Portsmouth Corporation, Preston, RV4657, trolleybus

P4033