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E type Adelaide tram

class of 20th-century tram in Adelaide

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2022
Entity authorityQ48792483 ↗
Source-derived summary

The E type Adelaide tram was a class of 20 bogie, half open, half closed combination trams with one drop and one straight sill end built by A Pengelly & Co, Adelaide in 1910 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT). In 1918/19, all were remotored with 65 hp General Electric 201s with the original 50 hp General Electric 202s reused in the C type trams. When the MTT introduced an alpha classification system in 1923, they were designated the E type. In 1936, all were converted to E1s with crossbenches removed and the saloon extended along the full length.

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“E type Adelaide tram” enters the record as class of 20th-century tram in Adelaide. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what type, Adelaide and tram can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910, 1918, 1923, 1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around type, Adelaide and tram.
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“E type Adelaide tram” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, type, Adelaide and tram provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 13, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q48792483. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1918, 1923 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “E type Adelaide tram” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.