4-axle trams
Series 401-570 & 1001-1020
In 1929 a series of 50 new tramcars
(401-450) on bogies was introduced together with 20 similar
trailers (1001-1020 1st batch). These trailers were
converted into motorcars (451-470) already in 1931. In this
same year another 100 motorcars (471-570) and 20 trailers
(1001-1020 2nd batch) were acquired making a total of 170
motorcars and 20 trailers. Four companies were involved in
the construction of these trams:- Allan 401-420, 1001-1005 1st batch becoming 451-455, 471-510 and 1001-1020 2nd batch
- Beijnes 1006-1020 1st batch becoming 456-470 and 551-570
- Talbot 421-435
- Werkspoor 436-450 and 511-550
The series 401-470 (the 1929 series and the converted trailers), which did have less powerful motors, went out of service until 1965, most of the 471-570 around 1968 but a few were available until 1983.
The 404 was reconstructed in the late fifties into instruction car and numbered into 2101.
About 20 cars officially became working cars and numbered into the series 2500. Hardly anything else was changed and a few times they were used again in normal service. Six were reconstructed later as snow-fight cars and numbered into the series 2600.
About
15 still exist as works-, excursion or museum car, not only
in Rotterdam but in Amsterdam and Arnhem too.Series 301-306
In 1943 four more tramcars of the same type
were built by the workshops of the RET with the use of spare
parts, followed by another two from heavily damaged tramcars
(the 540 & 418) in 1946. This series 301-306 was
unidirectional, the back-end similar to the trailers
1001-1020. They had seats for 27. When the Duewag trams
arrived, 301 was already out of service, the others were
renumbered into 401-405 and went out of service in 1968. The
303 (original number) is kept as museum tram.