Coventry Trams

Do you know where it's going to and coming from?

From what I've read, it is going to be a 220 metre test track for Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR).

I don't doubt it, but what could they be testing? Surely it's not new technology and it's all been tested elsewhere, and even up and running?

I just heard return of trams to Coventry in 2 yrs time.

From the excellent Coventry Smorgasbord FB page - Mark Woolley, an engineer and machine tool maker, pictured with a tramcar in his garden at 132 Foleshill Road. His machine shop at the rear of his house was badly damaged in one of the air raids on Coventry. Unable to obtain materials to fix it, he took delivery of one of the city's disused tramcars that was destined for the scrap-heap and converted it into a replacement workshop so he could continue making essential tools for the engineering industry. _ December 1941.

Snap! post 211 in this topic:

Sorry I missed that Manor House - it was 7 years ago!

Some of you may know of Cllr Roger Bailey and his work in the City. I was aware that he had saved some parts of Tram 68 before but he has allowed me to pass this on. Basically Tram 68 was being used as a greenhouse in Allesley and when the Greenhouse was dismantled (it was falling apart!) - he managed to save some bits including the doors. He has recently passed these on to Scott Duffin who some of you may also know as a collector of many Coventry things. The Tram as it was: The bits of the Tram used as a Greenhouse in Allesley: Scott Duffin with Roger Bailey and the bits saved:

Top pic, outside the Coach and Horses in Longford