Sapporo Streetcar 230 series

The Sapporo Streetcar 230 series was a Japanese streetcar type operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau on the Sapporo Streetcar network from December 1957 to May 1974.
==History==
The 230 series cars was a series of streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Streetcar network. A total of eight cars were manufactured between May and October 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 130 series cars. Despite appearing identical to the 220 series cars produced around the same time, the 230 series cars are differentiated as they use all-new traction motors.
Operation began in May 1959. The cars were given wanman modifications in 1971, with a red stripe added to their sides as an identification mark; all cars were retired by May 1974 with the abolition of a significant number of routes on the Sapporo Streetcar network. No 230 series cars have been preserved.
==Design==
The 230 series cars featured a curved design. The cars were painted in the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau's corporate colors of a tan body with green accents.
Their original current collectors were bow collectors; these were later changed to Z-type pantographs.
==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 Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō Cooperative, specifically by Toyohira Steel Corporation. 
==Preservation==
235 was privately preserved by the Nishioka Neighborhood Association but has since been removed and scrapped.
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Category:Sapporo Sogo Kōgyō locomotives