Sapporo Streetcar 720 series

The Sapporo Streetcar 720 series was a Japanese streetcar type operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau on the Sapporo Streetcar network from August 1970 to May 1974.
==History==
The 720 series cars were a series of streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Streetcar network. One car was manufactured by Taiwa Sharyō in August 1970. Numbered 721, the car was rebuilt using the body of retired diesel-powered streetcar D1030 series car D1037 and the salvaged electrical equipment and bogies of 240 series car 245, which had been scrapped due to its involvement in an accident. This was the last known streetcar produced by Taiwa Sharyō for the Sapporo Streetcar network.
Operation began in August 1970. 721 was retired in May 1974 with the abolition of a significant number of routes on the Sapporo Streetcar network. After retirement the car was preserved by Sapporo Gakuin University in their music faculty but was later removed and scrapped around 1985.
==Design==
The 720 series car featured a curvy design. The car was painted in the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau's corporate colors of a tan body with green accents.
==Specifications==
Construction of the cars was of steel. The cars used a nose suspension drive system and rode on a type of bogie manufactured in-house by the now-defunct Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō Cooperative, a cooperative of five small locomotive manufacturers and engineering companies which Taiwa Sharyō was a part of.
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