Northampton Transport Heritage

Archive Information

Archive Materials

It is our intention to create/acquire somewhere to enable us to make available the material we have for you to see, this may be of use to Bus enthusiasts or even Family Historians as we have many ledgers/records of staff back to 1900.

As a start we have published below a list of all the trams/buses as recorded in documents we have up to when Grampian took over NCT, later to become part of First Bus.

Note - the tables below are not suitable for viewing on phones for the time being, sorry, will update as soon as possible

Northampton Transport Fleet List

This list is taken from the records we have managed to save from the old St James Depot Offices.

The list comprises the year of introduction, fleet number, body, seating and where known the start date of the vehicle being introduced

Section 1 - Horse Drawn Trams and Buses

The Company was formed on 9th January 1880

First Horse Drawn Trams operated from 4th June 1881

Year

1881

1882

1886/87

1893

1894

1894-9

1907

Fleet Number

1-6

7-8

9-10

11-14

15-16

17-19

1-2

4-9

20-25

Body

Birmingham Carriage and Wagon. No 3 converted to single deck S18R in 07/1886

Birmingham Carriage and Wagon.

Falcon Engineering

?? (Horse Bus)

Falcon Engineering (Brush)

Horse Bus

Seating

OT/18/18

S18R

OT/18/18

D?R

OT/18/18

OT/14/12RE

Seats

Knifeboard Seat

Garden Seats

Into Service

June 1881

Nov 1881

Dec 1882

May-July 1893

April 1894

Oct 1907

From 21st October 1901 the horse tramways were operated by the Northampton Corporation who took over the

Abington Street Depot and the following cars -

3, 15, 16, 1, 2, 4-9, 11-14, 20-25 and horse buses 17-19

The 1907 Horse Bus was run under the new Northampton Corporation until 1915

Last Horse Tram - 19 August 1904

Last Horse Bus - 22 October 1915

Section 2 - Electric Trams

First Electric Trams operated 21 July 1904

Year

1904

1905

1910

1911

1914

1921

Number

1 - 20

21 - 22

23 - 24

25 - 26

27 - 33

34 - 37

NH 1612

NH 2678

Body

Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works

United Electric Car Co Ltd

Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd

English Electric

Fiat Lorry

Bera Tower Wagon (Last used Sept 1933)

Seating

O24/22

O28/22

H26/22

Type

OT46 Single Truck Brill 21E Dick Kerr

OT48 Single Truck Brill 21E Dick Kerr

S42 Single Truck Preston 22E Dick Kerr

Into Service

May 1905

Oct 1914

1921

Last Electric Trams - 15 December 1934

Balcony Top Covers were fitted to 19(1923), 5,10,13 (1925), 20,21,22 (1926)

Section 3 - Motorbuses

First Motorbuses operated 13 September 1923

Year

1923

1924

1925

1926

1927

1928

1929

1930

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

1942

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1949

1950

1953

1957

1959

1960

1961

1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1972

1973

1974

1977

1978

1977

1979

1981/82

1984

1989

1990

1991

1986

1987

1988

1989

1992

1993

1997

Fleet Number

100

101

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

110

111

112

113

114

115

116

117

118

119

120

121

122

123

124

125

126

127

128

129

130

131

132

133

134

135

136

137

138

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

150

151

152

153

154

155

156

157

158

159

160

161

162

163

164

165

166

167

168

169

170

171

172

173

174

175

176

177

178

179

180

181

182

183

184

185

186

187

188

189

190

191

192

193

194

195

196

197

198

199

200

201

202

203

204

205

206

207

208

209

210

211

212

213

214

215

216

217

218

219

220

221

222

223

224

225

226

227

228

229

230

231

232

233

234

235

236

237

238

239

240

241

242

243

244

245

246

247

248

249

250

251

252

253

254

255

256

257

258

259

260

261

262

263

264

265

266

267

100

101

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

110

111

112

113

114

115

121

122

123

124

125

126

127

128

129

130

131

132

501(44)

502(45)

503(46)

504(47)

505(48)

506(49)

Chassis/Body

Thorneycroft J/Bush

Thorneycroft A1/York, Ward & Rowlett

Thorneycroft A1/Roe

Guy B/Guy

Guy B/Grose

Guy FCX/Grose - Renumbered 22 in 29

Guy FCX/Grose - Renumbered 23 in 29

Guy B/Fox - Renumbered 20 in 29

Guy B/Fox - Renumbered 21 in 29

Guy FCX/Grose

AEC Renown/Grose

Vulcan Princess/Vulcan

(Renumbered 44 in 1932)

Vulcan Princess/Vulcan

(Renumbered 45 in 1932)

GuyC/Guy (Renumbered 46 in 1932)

GuyC/Guy (Renumbered 47 in 1932)

GuyC/Guy (Renumbered 48 in 1932)

Thorneycroft BC/Vulcan

(Renumbered 49 in 1932)

Thorneycroft BC/Vulcan

(Renumbered 50 in 1932)

Thorneycroft BC/Vulcan

(Renumbered 51 in 1932)

Crossley Condor/English Electric

Dennis Lancet 1/Gross

Crossley Condor/Crossley