page_title: Glasgow Corporation Tramways
section_title: Standard cars
hierarchical_section_title: Glasgow Corporation Tramways / Rolling stock / Standard cars
caption_attribution_description: English: Glasgow tramcar in the Riverside Museum, Glasgow
context_page_description: Glasgow Corporation Tramways were formerly one of the largest urban tramway systems in Europe. Over 1000 municipally-owned trams served the city of Glasgow, Scotland with over 100 route miles by 1922. The system closed in 1962 and was the last city tramway in Great Britain.
context_section_description: These four-wheeled, double-deck tramcars were the mainstay of the Glasgow tram fleet from electrification until the late 1950s (only being withdrawn due to the imminent closure of the system).  Over 1000 were built between 1898 and 1924. They were progressively modernised in four phases, although not all went through each phase. The first cars were open-top unvestibuled four-wheelers (phase one). They then received top covers with open balconies (phase two), platform vestibules and roll-top draught covers (phase three) and finally fully enclosed top covers (phase four). Electrical equipment and running gear was also upgraded at each modernisation phase.  The earlier cars had rounded front dash panels, but later cars which were built with vestibule glazing from new had hexagonal profile dash panels.  When early cars were upgraded to receive vestibule glazing they retained their round dash panels, and latterly the main visual difference within the fleet was between the "round dash" and "hex dash" variants.  A few cars were also cut down to single deckers for use on the Clydebank - Duntocher route which passed under low railway bridges.
  Six examples of the Standard car are preserved: Nos. 779 and 1088 in Riverside Museum; nos.22 and 812 at the National Tramway Museum in Crich; no. 585 stored in the Science Museum at Wroughton; and no. 488 undergoing restoration for display at the East Anglia Transport Museum.
caption: Glasgow Standard (round dash) tram with top cover
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