G type Adelaide tram

This article is about a class of tram that first ran on the street tramways of Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1925. For an overview of the city's tram types, see Tram types in Adelaide.

The G type Adelaide tram was a class of four single truck Birney trams manufactured by the US firm J.G. Brill Company. They arrived in completely knocked down form and were assembled by the Municipal Tramways Trust in 1924.^[1]

G type
G303 at the Tramway Museum, St Kilda in May 2008
Manufacturer	J.G. Brill Company
Assembly	Adelaide
Constructed	1924
Number built	4
Fleet numbers	301-304
Capacity	32
Specifications
Car length	8.53 metres
Width	2.39 metres
Height	3.30 metres
Weight	7.6 tons
Traction motors	2 x 25hp General Electric 264A
Current collector(s)	Trolley pole
Bogies	JG Brill Company 79E1
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)

They were used exclusively on the isolated Port Adelaide network, mainly on the lightly trafficked Rosewater line to either Semaphiore or Largs.^[2][3] After that closed in 1935, all were sold to the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and placed in service in Geelong.^[4] In 1947, they were transferred to Bendigo. One was scrapped in 1956 after an accident, while the other three remained in service until the system closed in April 1972.^[5][6][7]

Preservation

All are preserved:

• 301, 302 & 304 by the Bendigo Tramway Trust^[8][9]
• 303 by the Tramway Museum, St Kilda^[6]