Sunbeam S7A Trolleybus - Huddersfield Trolleybus
Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum
631 was the first of a batch of 10 Sunbeam S7A trolleybuses which entered service in Huddersfield in November/December 1959 to replace some of the ageing rebuilt Karrier E6 trolleybuses. These were Huddersfield’s last new trolleybuses and also the last three-axle trolleybuses built for service in the United Kingdom. They followed the style of the previous Huddersfield trolleybuses (3-axle, double-deck, 7' 6" wide) to fit in with the rest of the fleet, despite the regulations having been relaxed a few years earlier which would have enabled these trolleybuses to have been built as two-axle. They were not particularly well-liked by the Huddersfield crews, who tried to have alternative vehicles allocated to them. www.britishtrolley.org.uk/huddersfield-631
Sunbeam S7A Trolleybus - Huddersfield Trolleybus
Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum
631 was the first of a batch of 10 Sunbeam S7A trolleybuses which entered service in Huddersfield in November/December 1959 to replace some of the ageing rebuilt Karrier E6 trolleybuses. These were Huddersfield’s last new trolleybuses and also the last three-axle trolleybuses built for service in the United Kingdom. They followed the style of the previous Huddersfield trolleybuses (3-axle, double-deck, 7' 6" wide) to fit in with the rest of the fleet, despite the regulations having been relaxed a few years earlier which would have enabled these trolleybuses to have been built as two-axle. They were not particularly well-liked by the Huddersfield crews, who tried to have alternative vehicles allocated to them. www.britishtrolley.org.uk/huddersfield-631