Dalsenget fire

The depot was rebuilt, and 28 new Class 7 trams were ordered, in addition to 15 trailers from Strømmens Værksted and Hønefoss Karosserifabrikk, respectively.

Based on the requirements of the insurance policy, the depot was always to be staffed, and in case of a fire trams were to be driven out.

Both the mechanics and five of the cleaners succeeded in evacuating from the building before a gas tank exploded, killing the last three women in an inferno.

The rest of the firemen's efforts were concentrated on rescuing the workshop at the end of the building, which had fire-proof gates.

One of the Class 5 bogie trams that was still in regular service had survived because it had overnighted in the other depot.

Behind the fire-proof doors at the paint shop at Dalsenget was a single Class 4 tram with a trailer that had survived the fire.

The buses would run in between the remaining trams to create a five-minute headway on all three routes.

Only 10.6 m (35 ft) long and a lot smaller than the trams, the Høka/Leyland buses had seating for 22 or 34[9] It was not until 14 November that the company was ready to get the two Belgian trailers into service.

They needed to be rebuilt, but the company only had a single tram, the Class 4 (nicknamed the Happy Widow), that had enough power to haul the large trailers.

[11] Immediately after the fire had occurred, some politicians launched the idea of instead investing in a trolleybus system.

Director Fredrik Kleven of Trondheim Sporvei calculated that this suggestion would cost NOK 1.5 million more per year, that operation of trams.

Also, the centenary would have to be rebuilt, the tracks removed, and trolleybuses had only a 15-year life expectancy compared to the 35 years of a tram.

Costs could be reduced since the bogies, motors, transformers and compressors from the fire could be salvaged, and reused by the new trams.

On 1 November, the city council voted in favor of the suggestion, giving the tram company's board freedom to strike the deal.

The remaining ten trailers were offered to Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk and Høka; the latter had the cheapest deal and won.