Despite continuing losses and poor prospects the Council felt it had no option but to replace the lot, accepting a tender submitted by Alan Keefe Ltd for a rake of five articulated, air-braked toastrack coaches with slatted seats.
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Four single deck toastrack cars were ordered from Brush Engineering in 1914 for use on the circular route, to be numbered 40 to 43, but only the first three arrived before the onset of the war, and the fourth one was not delivered until 1921.
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Seventeen B type'toastrack'trams were rebuilt by Duncan and Fraser ( though it is believed that car 45 was rebuilt in house by the MTT at Hackney Workshops ) were converted into A1 type'California Combination'trams, similar to the A and later C types although the ends didn't drop down on the A1s.
