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Leicester water car/railgrinder by Frederick Via Flickr: An old photograph dated 10 Aug 1947 and stamped as being taken by R. B. Parr of Leicester Corporation Tramways (LCT) water carrier/railgrinder no 179 outside the LCT 'Abbey Park Road Depot'. There were three LCT water carrier cars that also doubled up as railgrinders, they were renumbered over the years from 100, 142, 143 when new, to 151, 152, 153 in 1912, and finally to 179, 180, 181 in 1920. No 179 was built in 1904 by the 'Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works' holding a 1,800 gallon water tank and running on a Brill 21E truck. The three water carriers were withdraw/scrapped in 1949, the whole tramway closing in November of that year. ------------------------------------------------- If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks. HAVE YOU ANY ORIGINAL TRAM/BUS PHOTOGRAPHS? I collect (but am running short of) old UK tram/bus photos (not PC produced copies) but only where the original photographers name stamp is on the reverse. I do not ever sell photos, only collect them (ask my wife!) and eventually post them on Flickr and Facebook with the vehicle details. If you come across someone who does not want their prized photo collection to go to some ebay seller and be split up so is looking for a safe home for it, or someone who is selling a collection of (reasonably priced!) photos, could you please bear me in mind and drop me a message with details, under no circumstances will the photos ever be sold on by me. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------- Any photograph, ephemera, etc I post on Flickr is in my possession, nothing is copied from another location. The original photographer may have taken copies from their original negative and passed them out (sold them?) so there may be other copies out there of your (and my) 'original' transport photo, although occasionally there may be 'holiday snaps' type photos where there are not any other photos exactly the same in existence. If you wish to use this image (bearing in mind it may not be my copyright) or obtain a full size version (most of my uploads are small size) please contact me.

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