According to the sign on the wall, Yokohama City Transportation Bureau open tram 10 was built at the bureau's own Takigashira workshop in 1948 from a retired Type 300 streetcar that rode on an American-made J.G. Brill truck. It was equipped with a small crane and mostly used as a work car until the tramway closed in 1972. Its predecessors used to carry freight, such as beer from the Kirin brewery, but Yokohama's last tramway freight ran in the early 1950s when trucks took over, and those trams were converted to more work cars. No. 10 still has its original handbrake and Toyo Denki/Dick Kerr controller.

by richard7k