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On-off rain showers didn’t dampen spirits as a great day was had by all in Morley as the town welcomed back a tram for the first time in 79 years .

Morley will welcome a tram for the first time since 1935 as part of a remembrance celebration to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War .

The running gear for Cambridge 7 was collected from Leeds by a team from the Ipswich Transport Museum on Wednesday 12th March .

Today was a hard but a good day on the project.  We started with a pile of parts & ended with a complete set of running gear complete with brakes but if it runs we will need more track !

On Wednesday we were hoping to take delivery of the wheels but for various reasons they didn’t appear so I spent the day with Jim Soper painting and drilling the last of the steel work .

A week of solid progress on the project as we took delivery of the 8 coil springs from the Lancashire Spring Co at Milnrow and collected various bits of steelwork from Jason Reeve .

Not much to report this time. We managed to get so much machining done last week that there wasn’t enough left to do to justify a working party today while we await more items to be delivered .

A very good day in the workshop with Malcolm and Mike.  I had picked the stretcher bars up yesterday & all but one of the drawings are now with Jason Reeves who is doing the fabrications .

I’ll be keeping this blog going now each week as the work progresses.   The last seven days has been a busy period with many parts collected and a lot of work done on drawings to get everything right for production .

The launch of Leeds Horse Car 107 will take place over the Bank Holiday weekend of Sunday 25th and Monday 26th August at the Middleton Railway in its home city as the centrepiece of the “Leeds Festival of Transport .