More CAD stuff completed, this time for the Leeds Chamberlain or Pivotal car, Leeds ordered around 185 of these cars, 75 each from Brush and EE and the balance built in house, this making them the most numerous of all the LCT tram types, so if you model Leeds trams there's a fair chance that you will need a 'piv'

They became known as 'pivotals' due to EMB designed pivotal trucks, the idea being to get a 4 wheel car to perform like a bogie car, unfortunately it only worked well when all the linkages were well maintained and pretty much all ended up locked solid greating a rigid 10 ft truck, which in retrospect was not the greatest of ideas. A great number ended up being re trucked onto Peckham P35 trucks like the later Horsfields ran on.

So having scratchbuilt a couple of pivs I thought I'd like to extend the fleet and to a degree use the main body parts in the future for some earlier Leeds typs, more on those when and if they happen.

So, pics, couple of tiny things to do but in reality this is pretty much finished, also the truck parts for the model as these have only ever been available as part of an etched kit.