Maley & Taunton

Open-top Balloon tram 706 "Princess Alice" at Bispham. It runs on Maley & Taunton trucks.[1]

Maley & Taunton were a tram and tramway engineering company. They were at Wednesfield in Staffordshire, England.[2]

Maley & Taunton sent its products all over the world. Its trucks used in the Lisbon trams[3] and in the UK on the Blackpool tramway.[1][4] The company principals were Alfred Walter Maley and Edmund MacKenzie Taunton. They held patents for Tram and tramway machinery and equipment.[5][6]

Their equipment was used on the Manx Electric Railway.[7]

Maley & Taunton Media

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hall of Fame: Blackpool Open-Top Balloon 706British Trams Online. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  2. Business records held at National Tramway MuseumNational Register of Archives. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  3. Lisbon Trams, Part Two: Trams of The Past. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  4. Hall of Fame: Blackpool Coronation 304British Trams Online. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  5. Canadian Patents Database - Patent CA 352087 - Electrically Driven vehicleCanadian Intellectual Property Office. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  6. Improvements in tramcars GB Patent GB442620 (1935). Retrieved 2007-12-04.
  7. Goodwin, A M. Is This Any Way To Run A Railway? The Story of the Manx Electric Railway Since 1956.. Retrieved 2007-12-04.