page_title: Trolleybuses in Grimsby
section_title: Fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Trolleybuses in Grimsby / Fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: Grimsby-Cleethorpes trolleybus 159 operated in Walsall after it was sold, but is being restored to its condition when it was owned by Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport between 1957 and 1960.
context_page_description: The Grimsby trolleybus system once served the seaport of Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, England. Opened on 3 October 1926, it gradually replaced part of the Great Grimsby Street Tramways, a tramway that had served both Grimsby and the neighbouring holiday resort of Cleethorpes. It was closed on 4 June 1960.
  By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom, the Grimsby system was a small one, with a total of only two routes, and a maximum fleet of just 19 trolleybuses.
context_section_description: For the opening of the system, Grimsby bought five single-deck vehicles from Richard Garrett & Sons of Leiston, Suffolk in 1926, and supplemented them with two more the following year. When the opening of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes joint service was imminent, they bought ten rather larger vehicles from Associated Equipment Company (AEC). These had three axles and double deck bodywork, with seating for 58 passengers. During the Second World War, they obtained three Karrier vehicles, fitted with wartime utility bodywork, which had bodywork by Park Royal Vehicles of West London, the only ones not to have bodywork by Charles H. Roe of Leeds. The final batch were six more Karriers, obtained in 1946–47.
  The Cleethorpes vehicles are also mentioned here, because they only ever worked the joint service into Grimsby, and many of them passed to Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport when that was created in 1957. Their first ten vehicles were two-axle AECs, obtained in 1937, and supplemented by three more in 1938. However, being a seaside town, traffic levels were reduced during the Second World War, and they sold Nos.59 and 60–62 to Nottingham in 1940, as they were experiencing increased traffic levels, but were unable to purchase new vehicles as most manufacturers were engaged in war work. Post-war, they obtained four vehicles from British United Traction (BUT) in 1950, and two from Crossley Motors in 1951.
  When the Joint Transport Committee was created, they inherited all of the Karriers and four of the AECs from Grimsby. Cleethorpes vehicles that became part of the joint undertaking had 100 added to their fleet numbers. Three AECs were transferred, as were the four BUTs and two Crossleys. After closure, Karriers 19 to 22 and 24 were sold to Bradford, but never worked in public service, while BUTs 159–162 and Crossleys 163–164 were sold to Walsall.
caption: Grimsby-Cleethorpes No.159 undergoing restoration at Westgate Chapel, Belton in 2019
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