City launch legal action against the Premier League | City win APT case (pg901)

To clear up the technical point, I think the gas trams ran on some sort of reservoir of compressed gas. But I am not a great expert on engineering, either in this case or others, so I can't really explain. I'm pretty sure Lytham had similar gas trams, although in both cases there was a conversion to the more practical electric ones. Which at that stage of development were really a big wooden shed stuck on a truck (or bogies) fitted with electric motors. Dead simple compared to what we have now.
STOP PRESS.
Each tram depot was equipped with a reservoir filled from the mains feed with a compressor. Trams had a set of small reservoirs which were filled from the depots supply at 8 Atmospheres.
(Note the amazing technical detail. Google is your friend.)
 

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