Brisbane Four Motor Tramcar 494

Brisbane Four Motor Tramcar 494

A total of 155 Four Motor type tramcars were built by the Brisbane City Council between 1938 and 1964. Trams were built in batches.
Each batch would introduce subtle changes to the style of the car i.e. interior wood grain paneling was introduced in 1948.
This model represents numbers between 493 and 502 which where built in 1948 and 1949.
Cars were equipped with 4x40 hp AGE247 motors mounted in trucks built by the B.C.C. based on the Melbourne No.15 truck.
Trolley pole bases were MMTB type and utilised the trolley wheel contact method.
494 was the first tram to be equipped with internal wood grain paneling. 497 was the first car in Australia to enter service with resilient wheels in June 1949.
Internal Conductor mirrors mounted on the end bulkheads were introduced in this series.
These mirrors allowed the conductor to observe passengers entering or alighting from the end doorways no matter where the conductor was standing in the tramcar.
Here, this tram 494 is presented in the way it would have appeared when it was built in December 1948. Notice the all over silver paintwork. It's contemporaries had grey roofs.
No.494 has been preserved and is awaiting restoration to running order at the Brisbane Tramway Museum.

Author: motorman1066

Brisbane Four Motor Tramcar 494
• 494 240.jpg 7.07KB
494 body
494 body high.im 675.61KB
494 body low.im 110.63KB
494 body lowest.im 9.63KB
494 body med.im 246.61KB
494 body night.im 396.96KB
494 body.lm.txt 325 bytes
digit_4a.texture.txt 31 bytes
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digit_5a.tga 4.04KB
digit_6a.texture.txt 31 bytes
digit_6a.tga 4.04KB
texture 494 night.texture.txt 83 bytes
texture 494 night.tga 4.00MB
texture 494.texture.txt 71 bytes
texture 494.tga 4.00MB
texture dest.texture.txt 35 bytes
texture dest.tga 193.04KB
texture glass.texture.txt 36 bytes
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texture logo.texture.txt 35 bytes
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494 body shadow
494 body shadow.im 42.30KB
texture black.texture.txt 36 bytes
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494_alpha_numbers
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494_art
494_art_512.texture.txt 69 bytes
494_art_512.tga 1.00MB
494_art_icon.texture.txt 71 bytes
494_art_icon.tga 33.04KB
• compressor.wav 412.17KB
• config.txt 8.42KB