Subject: Portsmouth C. T. 8 (RV 4656)
Chassis: Sunbeam MF2
Body: English Electric H26/24R
Location: Preston, Dick, Kerr Works
Date: 1934

In this view 8 is clearly identifiable as such. It went on to lead an unremarkable life in Portsmouth, its main distinction being that it was decorated for the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935. It was equipped with British Thomson-Houston (BTH) control gear and a BTH motor.

As with all these initial trolleybuses, the shallow windscreen gave poor visibility of the overhead line and in consequence a small window was quickly added in the white band above the windscreen.

Renumbered 208 in 1938, it was stored from 1940 to 1946 and last licensed in 1952.

Photograph from the GEC archive