On 16/8/22 15:12, David Batho wrote:
> That sounds something like the one off the Venetian 'mainland.’


Thats a Translor, developed so Clermont-Ferrand could build a tram that
used Michelin products :-) (Clermont-Ferrand being the home of Michelin)

When Lohr Industries got into trouble Alstom was convinced to take it on
(presumably to avoid the embarrassing mid project abandonment of two
Paris lines then under construction).

Alstom have since shutdown the product. Lohr licensed it to the Chinese
before Alstom took it on, but it looks like the Chinese gave up on it too.

Nancy is a Bombardier TVR, but Bombardier abandoned the product many
years ago. Caen had one too - since changed to a 'standard' tramway.
Nancy acquired some of Caen's vehicals to cannibalize for parts.

More recent investigations indicate the Nancy project to replace the TVR
with a tram line has been abandoned due to financial pressures and they
are looking at just buying 'standard' double-articulated trolley buses
to replace the TVR vehicals as they fail and just operate the route as a
trolley bus line - as it was before the TVR. They may have to widen some
of the TVR route lanes so that the driver has a chance of staying in the
lane. :-)