Wanted: a Brill 21E axle box for Glasgow 1017. Can you help Summerlee?

Posted on Friday 4 September 2015 by Gareth Prior

The casting on the original axle box on Glasgow 1017 at the Summerlee Heritage Museum has recently cracked and a new casting has proven difficult to source. Can anyone help Summerlee to source a new Brill 21E axle box? If so please either leave a comment below or email gareth@britishtramsonline.co.uk and we will pass it on the team at Scotland’s only museum tramway.

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2 Responses to Wanted: a Brill 21E axle box for Glasgow 1017. Can you help Summerlee?

  1. Frank Gradwell says:
    Friday 4 September 2015 at 23:12

    Given modern progress in casting technology using plastic based moulds, might this be an occasion where the reduced costs of producing moulds by this means rather than timber formers is a long term remedy to re-creating long out of production items?

  2. Steve says:
    Monday 7 September 2015 at 14:50

    What is interesting is that the tram’s proper truck is still in existence as it was bought for Leicester 76, under which it still is.

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