The Hawthorn Tramways Trust was a tram operator in Melbourne , Australia. Its assets and liabilities were transferred to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board on 2 February 1920.
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44-518: A private company, Duncan and Fraser Limited. They operated initially out of a workshop at 37 Franklin Street, Adelaide , with six tradesmen employees, but as they expanded the range of their products their business outgrew the premises and in January 1870 they moved to a newly constructed building with a 100-foot (30 metre) frontage at number 42 on the opposite (north) side of Franklin Street. At
66-490: The Oldsmobile automobile agency. A showroom, complete with a salesman, spare parts, accessories, clothing and driving instruction was established, a first for South Australia . In 1906, the existing factory was replaced by a new two storey factory. After Duncan died on 2 July 1908, the business was taken over by his four sons, James, Robert, Archie and Richard. Duncan & Fraser secured more automobile agencies, including
88-523: The State Electricity Commission of Victoria 's Ballarat , Bendigo and Geelong systems. In 1913 the business was incorporated into a limited liability company in keeping with its increasing scope. In 1919 the company decided to abandon coachbuilding and confine itself to automotive manufacture. In 1900 Duncan & Fraser completed its first automobile body for Lewis Cycle Works. In May 1903 Duncan & Fraser secured
110-818: The Adelaide & Suburban Tramway Company from John Stephenson & Co , New York , United States. During the next quarter century the firm became one of the largest carriage building companies in Australia, building in addition to horse-drawn carriages, many hundreds of horse trams for companies in South Australia and Victoria. In 1884, 16 acres of land was secured adjacent to the Port Adelaide railway line at Kilkenny . After Fraser died in August 1886, Duncan bought out his share from his widow. However,
132-538: The Ford Model T would cease. Ford Australia followed suit a week later. All the Ford agents including Duncan Motors were informed that they would not have any Ford cars to sell for an estimated 12 months whilst the factories in retooled for the new Model A . Faced with no Ford bodies to build and no Fords to sell and because Duncan & Fraser's other car agencies were unprofitable the directors decided to recommend to
154-661: The Orient Buckboard, Argyll , Standard , Singer , Chalmers and BSA . In August 1909, it secured the sole distributorship for the Ford Model T for South Australia and Broken Hill . Ford Canada was unhappy about most of the Australian Ford distributors selling other makes. Thus Duncan & Fraser annexed the Ford agency. In October 1920 Duncan Motors was formed to sell and service all Ford products with Duncan & Fraser selling all other makes. In
176-756: The Trust's tramways to open was that from the HTT Depot, at the corner of Riversdale Road and Power Street in Hawthorn, to the city terminus in Batman Avenue at Princes Bridge. The section to Auburn Road was brought into operation on 7 May, with the line to Bowen Street, Camberwell, just past the Junction, commencing services at the end of that month. The final section, to Boundary (now Warrigal) Road in Burwood,
198-528: The United States Army The gene that encodes Huntingtin Hybrid turbocharger Hyper-threading Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , an American technology company Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title HTT . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
220-553: The cities of Melbourne , Richmond , Hawthorn , and Camberwell , and to acquire a horse tramway from the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company (MTOC). The Trust operated the Hawthorn tram depot and was also responsible for the acquisition of Wattle Park in the suburb of Burwood in 1916. The HTT was the only early electric tram operator to open a route into the central business district (CBD), although it and
242-653: The company's principal activity and the company was operating automotive distributorships and dealerships. However, the succeeding Ford Model A required an all-steel body, which Ford's US headquarters decided would be made in Canada and assembled in Ford's own factory in Geelong . Since most of the company's income had consequently ceased, the shareholders voted in August 1927 to close the company. In January 1865, coach builder James Duncan and coach painter James Fraser – Scottish immigrants to Adelaide , South Australia – formed
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#1732776415922264-658: The early 1920s Duncan & Fraser secured the Studebaker car agency. The Kilkenny site was sold to Holden Motor Bodies and a new factory specially designed to manufacture cars built in Mile End . Rectangular in shape, it allowed for an assembly line type process, similar to the system implemented in 1913 by Henry Ford in Detroit to manufacture the Ford Model T. On 21 February 1923, the Franklin Street factory
286-628: The first Intercolonial Exhibition, held in Sydney in 1869, Duncan & Fraser competed against some of the oldest companies in the Commonwealth, and secured the first prize. The impetus saw their turnover double in one year. In 1873 Duncan & Fraser were commissioned to build two railway carriages for the Adelaide, Glenelg & Suburban Railway Company . In 1876 and 1877 the company assembled Adelaide's first 20 horse-drawn trams imported by
308-525: The inner suburbs were well served at that time by the extensive Melbourne cable tramway system . The main route was from Princes Bridge to Burwood, with a branch line to Wattle Park. The Trust also took over the MTOC's Hawthorn horse tram, and the electric tramway that replaced it operated as a shuttle service between the Richmond cable tram terminus and Hawthorn Depot. On 6 April 1916, the first section of
330-547: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HTT&oldid=1088463847 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hawthorn Tramways Trust The Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT) was formed pursuant to the Melbourne to Burwood Tramways Act, 1914 , to construct and manage electric tramways within
352-414: The trading name remained unchanged. Duncan & Fraser diversified into the construction of tram bodies, becoming one of the largest carriage building companies in Australia. The company completed 120 A , B , C and D types for the Adelaide network as well as A , C , D , E , F , G , H , M , N , O , P , S , T , U and V class trams for the Melbourne network . It also built trams for
374-435: The traffic offering, and four O-class Maximum Traction bogie trams were purchased from the neighbouring Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust in August 1916. Although they had also been built by Duncan & Fraser only four years previously, they were of a different design to the Trust's other tramcars and proved to be not as good. A repeat order of 15 car was placed with the builders, to the original designs, except that each
396-443: Was a vehicle manufacturing company founded in 1865 in Adelaide , South Australia that built horse-drawn carriages and horse trams, and subsequently bodies for trains, electric trams and motor cars, becoming one of the largest carriage building companies in Australia. In 1919 the company decided to abandon coachbuilding and confine itself to automotive manufacture; by 1927 the construction of Ford Model T motor car bodies had become
418-688: Was destroyed by fire. Temporary buildings and workshops were rented in various parts of Adelaide. A new three storey factory opened on the Frankilin Street site in August 1924. In March 1925 the Ford Australia was established in Geelong , with bodies initially built by Duncan & Fraser and supplied through Duncan Motors. By May 1926 body panels were being imported by Ford Australia directly from Ford Canada and assembled in Geelong. In August 1927, Ford Canada announced that production of
440-642: Was dissolved on 20 February 1920, and control passed to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board . All but five of the trams built for the HTT saw further service after their time in Melbourne, being sold to other operators. A number of those tramcars have been preserved, including Tram 8 at the Melbourne Tram Museum. Of the 24 surviving tramcars, 21 are operating (or operable) at various tram museums across Australia, as well as overseas. Duncan %26 Fraser Duncan & Fraser Limited
462-579: Was one foot (300 mm) longer, to provide more leg room in the open sections. Eight were P-class Maximum Traction bogie cars, and the remaining seven were M-class four-wheel trams. Due to a combination of circumstances, the smaller trams were never used, and the bodies were sold to the Footscray Tramway Trust . Unusually, the Trust's trams were painted in predominantly French Grey — at a time when nearly all other trams in Melbourne were painted in variations of brown liveries. The Trust
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#1732776415922484-468: Was opened on 10 June. With the opening of the Power Street and Burwood Road tramway to Hawthorn Bridge on 21 June 1916, the HTT reached its maximum mileage. Passenger services were initially provided by ten small four-wheel M-class trams , and ten larger Maximum Traction N-class bogie cars, all built by Duncan & Fraser of Adelaide . It was soon realised that they were totally inadequate for
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