Trailer Carriage 50
This trailer car - a rare representative of Ghent's public transport before the First World War - was specifically built to be pulled by the battery tram on the line to Merelbeke. The battery tram appeared in Ghent in 1899 but failed to meet expectations. Despite the lightweight design of the trailer, the tram could not pull it. Just a few years later, Ghent saw the arrival of its first overhead electric tram, which gave the trailer a new lease on life. A remarkable feature of this trailer is that it had a small luggage compartment alongside the passenger compartment.