{"id":6399,"date":"2014-01-28T19:52:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2014-01-28T19:52:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T19:52:39","slug":"picture-in-time-12-burton-and-ashby-14-prepares-to-head-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6399","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time 12: Burton and Ashby 14 prepares to head to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the weekend we featured <strong>Burton and Ashby 14<\/strong> in our \u201cLost Trams\u201d series including a photo of it after it had been exported to Detroit and now the very same tram features as part of our \u201cPicture in Time\u201d series, this time before it had embarked on its longest ever journey.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We have two photos from Keith Gilliver and Peter White\u2019s collection to share with you the first of which shows the unrestored body of <strong>14<\/strong> as it arrived at the Model Railway Club where it was to reside before restoration commenced. Note the wheels used to transport the tram body, they were off a cement mixer and the body remained on these until its restoration. Peter White \u2013 heavily involved in the idea of having the tram at the clubhouse \u2013 is seen on the left of the photo. The Model Railway Club used the body of <strong>14<\/strong> as a ticket office for model railway exhibitions held at their clubroom and it was kept on their driveway for this purpose. In fact <strong>14<\/strong> was not the only Burton and Ashby tram saved in the local area as another two bodies were discovered \u2013 <strong>6<\/strong> and <strong>15<\/strong> \u2013 although these were in a worse condition than 14 and after being stripped of any useful parts were scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>The second image is taken shortly before <strong>14<\/strong> embarked on its journey to the United States. The partly restored tram is seen being loaded onto a transporter lorry at Warrens Engineering (the firm where the restoration in the UK took place) ahead of its initial journey to Liverpool. At this stage the tram remained in the ownership of the Model Railway Club but it was later sold to Detroit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=6400\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6400\" title=\"Tram4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tram4-550x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tram4-550x467.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tram4-1024x869.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6401\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=6401\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6401\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6401\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6401\" title=\"Tram6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tram6-550x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tram6-550x353.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Tram6-1024x658.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both photos courtesy of Keith Gilliver<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the weekend we featured Burton and Ashby 14 in our \u201cLost Trams\u201d series including a photo of it after it had been exported to Detroit and now the very same tram features as part of our \u201cPicture in Time\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6403,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}