THE group restoring Chester’s last surviving electric tramcar, in premises at the former airfield at Hooton Park near Ellesmere Port, says that the project has evolved at an“astounding”rate in recent months.
No. 4, a 3ft 6in gauge double-deck tram, was built by George F Milnes & Company at Handley Works in Shropshire in 1903. Withdrawn from service in 1930, the body of the lower saloon was acquired for use as a garden shed. Its remains were rescued for preservation in 1987 and Chester Tramway Society and Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society became its owners in 2004.
In 2020, it was moved to its
