Manchester Corporation Tramways 765

The '53' route ran from Brooks's Bar to Cheetham Hill Road, via Belle Vue, forming an angular shape; two low bridges at Pottery Lane and Stanley Grove made running double-deckers impossible.

[3][4] No 765 is the only surviving Manchester combination car; having been stored in Yorkshire at Pioneer Farm, Blackmoorfoot, near Huddersfield.

[5] For a period the tram was stored at the National Tramway Museum, Crich but was moved to the Birchfields Road depot in Rusholme, Manchester for restoration.

Type: Bogie combination single decker with open ends and central saloon Body: United Electric Car Company, MCTD Trucks: Brill 22E Controllers: Dick Kerr DB1 Motors: BTH GE200, 2 × 35 horsepower (26 kW) Seating: 40 Built: 1914[3] In June 2010 No.

765 made several appearances in an episode (19 June 2009) on the Granada TV programme Coronation Street filmed in Heaton Park.