We go “Around the World in Trams” again and we remain in Amsterdam for a view of another Works Car.
We’ve seen it in the UK on numerous occasions where a tram’s conversion into a Works Car has enabled it to survive into preservation and that is exactly the case for the below vehicle as well. This is Amsterdam Works Car H9 which can trace its history all the way back to 1929 when it entered service as no. 914 – an unpowered trailer car. It remained like this until 1937 when it was converted to a motor, before in 1972 it became a Works Car as we see here.
H9 would remain a Works Car until 1988 as which point it was withdrawn and would then be restored to a passenger vehicle and used as a museum car in Amsterdam from 1992. Then it was transferred to Wehmingen in Germany from 2011 to continue its preservation career.
This photo was taken in 1980 and shows H9 outside the Central Works.
Photograph by Keith Chadbourne, 1980