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Open-top Balloon Tram 706 is seen at Bispham on the Blackpool tramway. It is on Maley & Taunton trucks, and is one of many trams that have used their equipment.
Maley & Taunton is a defunct tram and tramway engineering company. It was situated in Wednesfield in Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.
Maley & Taunton exported globally, with its trucks used in the Lisbon trams and in the UK on the Blackpool tramway. The principals, Alfred Walter Maley and Edmund MacKenzie Taunton (b 1884) held patents for Tram and tramway machinery and equipment.
Their equipment was used on the Manx Electric Railway.
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