Model of West Ham Tram Car No. 119, on the Wanstead Flats to Canning Town route.
This working scale model is of a Standard Four Wheel, single truck, double deck, covered top tramcar, constructed in the works of West Ham Corporation's Tramways, Greengate Street, Plaistow. It was exhibited as a working model at the Wembley Exhibition, 1924 and the Model Engineer Exhibition in 1938. It had also been on static display at the Science Museum, South Kensington and for many years at the former Old Station Museum at North Woolwich. A full size West Ham tram can be seen at the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden.
(Image:© Michael Booth)