Sapporo Streetcar 220 series

The Sapporo Streetcar 220 series is a Japanese streetcar type operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau on the Sapporo Streetcar network since February 1959.
==History==
The 220 series cars was a series of streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Streetcar network. A total of eight cars were manufactured in February and April 1959 by the Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō Cooperative, a cooperative of a number of minor rolling stock manufacturing companies based in Sapporo; four companies, Fujiya Tekkō, Naebo Kōgyō, Taiwa Sharyō and Unyu Kōgyō, manufactured the cars using equipment from scrapped 120 and 130 series cars.
Operation began in February 1959. 223 through 228 were retired in May 1974 with the abolition of a significant number of routes on the Sapporo Streetcar network.
==Design==
The 220 series cars feature a curvy design. Initially, the cars used a top-mounted headlight; this was later changed to dual headlights mounted on the front of the car. The cars's original livery was the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau's corporate colors of a tan body with green accents; in later years the cars would be repainted in their second corporate livery of all-over green.
==Specifications==
Construction of the cars is of steel. The cars use a nose suspension drive system and ride on Kawasaki KW-181 bogies; prior to this, they used a type of bogie manufactured in-house by the Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō Cooperative. 
Their original current collectors were bow collectors; these were later changed to Z-type pantographs.
==Preservation==
225 was preserved at the Obihiro Zoo for a time but was later removed and scrapped.
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Category:Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō locomotives