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Maley & Taunton

Maley & Taunton was a tram and tramway engineering company. It was situated in Wednesbury in Staffordshire, England.[2][3][4] The principals, Alfred Walter Maley (1880-1947) and Edmund MacKenzie Taunton (1884-1957)[5] held patents for tram and tramway machinery and equipment.[6][7] The company exported globally, with its tram trucks used, among others, in Lisbon,[8] Johannesburg, and Hong Kong,[9] and locally – to the Blackpool tramway,[1][10] Sheffield Corporation, Liverpool Corporation, Glasgow Corporation, and the Manx Electric Railway.[11]

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  1. Hall of Fame: Blackpool Open-Top Balloon 706 British Trams Online, retrieved 2007-12-04^
  2. Business records held at National Tramway Museum National Register of Archives, retrieved 4 December 2007^
  3. Search results The National Archives, retrieved 23 December 2020^
  4. Maley & Taunton Ltd, general engineers and tramway contractors. workshop drawings (c1700) of tramcar trucks, brakes etc from 1926 The National Archives, retrieved 23 December 2020^
  5. Taunton of Wrackleford retrieved 2007-12-04^
  6. Canadian Patents Database - Patent CA 352087 - Electrically Driven vehicle Canadian Intellectual Property Office, retrieved 4 December 2007^
  7. Improvements in tramcars GB Patent GB442620 1935, retrieved 2007-12-04^
  8. Lisbon Trams, Part Two: Trams of The Past retrieved 2017-11-27^
  9. Hong Kong Tramways 香港電車114週年系列 – 電車底盤歷史 – 香港電車文化保育學會 Hong Kong Trams Culture Preservation Society August 10, 2018, retrieved 22 April 2019^
  10. Hall of Fame: Blackpool Coronation 304 British Trams Online, retrieved 2007-12-04^
  11. A M Goodwin. Is This Any Way To Run A Railway? The Story of the Manx Electric Railway Since 1956. retrieved 2007-12-04^