This is a worldwide list of tram builders. Trams may also be called streetcars or trolleys in certain countries. These companies are, or at one time were, manufacturers of genuine trams/streetcars. Makers of replica-tram buses are not listed.
Argentina Fabricaciones Militares Materfer
Australia Bignall and Morrison, Sydney, New South Wales E. Chambers, Sydney Hudson Brothers, Sydney J.A. Lawton & Sons, Adelaide Noyes Brothers (Melbourne) Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Victoria Randwick Tramway Workshops, Sydney
Belarus Belkommunmash (produced trams, ?–2022)
Brazil Bom Sinal
Bulgaria Tramkar
China CRRC
Croatia Crotram Đuro Đaković (factory) (produced trams, 1957–1993) ZET Zagreb (produced trams, 1922–1951)
Czech Republic Pragoimex Škoda Transportation
Finland Škoda Transtech
France Alstom
Germany Siemens
Hong Kong Hong Kong Tramways
Hungary Ganz (subsidiary of Škoda Transportation)
India Bharat Earth Movers Jessop India Premier Manufacturer
Italy AnsaldoBreda - Sold to Hitachi Rail in 2015. Firema Trasporti SpA Carminati & Toselli Officine Meccaniche della Stanga
Japan ALNA Sharyo Japan Transport Engineering Company Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company Kinki Sharyo Niigata Transys Company Nippon Sharyo Hitachi Sapporo Sougou Tekkou Kyodoukumiai
New Zealand DSC Cousins & Cousins, formerly Cousins & Atkins Henderson & Pollard, Auckland Auckland City Corporation Tramways Auckland Transport Board Boon & Co, Christchurch Lyons and Co, Wellington Rouse & Hurrell, Wellington Rouse and Black, Wellington Wellington City Corporation Dunedin City Corporation Tramways
Poland FPS "Cegielski" Konstal Newag Pesa Bydgoszcz Solaris Modertrans
Romania Astra Vagoane Arad Electroputere VFU Pașcani URAC Bucharest
Russia PK Transportnye Sistemy Sinara Transport Machines Ust-Katav Vagon-Building Plant Uraltransmash
Spain Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF)
South Korea Hyundai Rotem
Switzerland Schindler Waggon SIG Combibloc Group Stadler
Turkey Durmazlar (Durmaray) Bozankaya
Ukraine Electron (concern) Tatra-Yug
United Kingdom Tram Power
United States Brookville Equipment Corporation (2002–) Gomaco Trolley Company (1982–) – Historic-streetcar replicas TIG/M Self-powered electric and hydrogen streetcars
Defunct
Argentina CATITA
Austria Simmering-Graz-Pauker (SGP)
Australia Clyde Engineering, Sydney, NSW Commonwealth Engineering Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide, SA Holden Motor Body Builders, Adelaide Eveleigh Railway Workshops, Sydney, NSW Meadowbank Manufacturing Company, Sydney, NSW Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board, Preston Workshops, Victoria. Municipal Tramways Trust, Adelaide A. Pengelley & Co, Adelaide Ritchie Brothers, Auburn, Sydney, NSW Walsh Island Dockyard, Newcastle, NSW
Canada Bombardier Transportation - Thunder Bay, Ontario - Sold to Alstom in 2020. Urban Transportation Development Corporation - Thunder Bay, Ontario 1973–1990s (used old CC&F plant) Hawker Siddeley Canada - Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1962–2001 (old CC&F plant) Canadian Car and Foundry - Montreal, Quebec, 1909–1913; 1940s Ottawa Car Company - Ottawa, Ontario, 1891–1948 Preston Car Company - Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge, Ontario), 1908–1921, bought by Brill Toronto Railway Company - Toronto, Ontario, 1891–1920, wooden cars for mostly in-house use only, but built some cars for Mexico and Western Canadian operators by subsidiary Convertible Car Company of Toronto James Crossen-Cobourg Car Works - Cobourg, Ontario, 1890–1915
China Bombardier Transportation, China
Czech Republic ČKD (1951–1999) Vagónka Tatra Česká Lípa (produced trams, 1929–1954) Vagónka Tatra Studénka (produced trams, 1902–1951) Královopolská strojírna (produced trams, 1903–1951) Inekon Trams (2001–2018)
Germany Adtranz (also in Sweden; bought out by Bombardier in 2001) Bremer Waggonbau (founded 1975, closed 1995) Duewag (sold to Siemens in 1999) Gothaer Waggonfabrik Hansa Waggonbau (established 1946, closed 1975) Norddeutsche Waggonfabrik (established 1908, closed 1930)
Italy Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali
Latvia RVR (Rīgas Vagonu Rupnīca) (ex—"Fenikss")
Netherlands Allan Beijnes Werkspoor
New Zealand Auckland Electric Tramways
Poland Protram
Romania Societatea de Transport Public Timișoara (1921–1977) Electrometal Timișoara (Eltim) (1977–1990) Electroputere Craiova (1954–1982)
Russia Saint Petersburg Tramway-Mechanical Plant
Sweden Adtranz (also in Germany; bought out by Bombardier in 2001)
Switzerland Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich (SWS)
United Kingdom Brush Electrical Engineering Company Dick, Kerr & Co English Electric Maley & Taunton
United States American Car Company (1891–1931) JG Brill Company (1868–1956, but streetcar production ended in 1941) Cincinnati Car Company (1902–1938) Edwards Rail Car Company (1997–2008) – Historic-streetcar replicas Gilbert Car Company (1840s–1895) W. L. Holman Car Company (1883–1913) Jewett Car Company (1894–1918) G. C. Kuhlman Car Company (1892–1932) Niles Car and Manufacturing Company (1901–1917) Pullman Company/Pullman Standard (1891–1952 for streetcars) St Louis Car Company (1887–1973) John Stephenson Company (1831–1917) Perley A. Thomas Car Works (1917–1936; bus manufacturer from 1936 on) United Streetcar (2005–2015) – Low-floor modern streetcars
See also
List of rolling stock manufacturers List of locomotive builders List of railway companies
References