Little Dancer

For the Degas sculpture, see Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.

The Little Dancer is a low-floor tram brand built by Alna Sharyo, a Japanese manufacturer of trams and light rail vehicles.

Overview

"Little Dancer" was named by two means. One of the means is to aim lively and cute image. And another mean is a Japanese word "dansa". "dansa" in Japanese means "bump" or "step". So, "Little Dancer" is lively and cute and little bump tram.

Little Dancer series adopt axles for all wheels. So, user, that is accustomed to maintenance old trams is easy to maintenance these new tram.

Type

Little Dancer series has several variants.

Type S

Type S series adopt short body and close the bogies each end.

Type L

Type L series adopt to articulate 3 cut long body. (All 3 articurations have the bogies.)

Type A

Type A series adopt 3 or 5 articulation bodies. (Some of articulations have no bogies and be floating.)

Type U,Ua

Type S,L,A series weren't 100% low floor, because the motors attached the bogies. U series devises to position the motor. So, U series are 100% low floor. "U" is an initial of "Ultimate".

Type C

"C" is an initial of "Combination".

See also

In Japan, the three brand compete with Little Dancer.

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