No.147 is one of seven surviving Blackpool ‘Standard’ trams constructed by Hurst Nelson in 1924. Originally the car had open balconies and vestibules and was painted in the early Blackpool Corpoartion colours of red, cream and teak.

This was subsequently replaced by the more familiar green and cream livery in 1933, at the same time as the end vestibules were enclosed. However, the top deck had to wait until 1940 to be fully enclosed.

It was withdrawn from service in Blackpool in 1966 and made the journey across the Atlantic in 1967 to the Trolleyville museum in Ohio but never operated there. It returned to Blackpool in 2000 and after a major restoration returned to service in 2002. It visited Beamish in 2016.

The model is made from a Blackpool Plastics kit and is fitted with an Alan Kirkman HT1 Halling based chassis which has one powered bogie and one trailing bogie.

© Gordon Bulmer 2022