Morris designed a 7.5 tonne double girder electric overhead travelling crane with a 5 metre height of lift to elevate and move parts of vintage trams for restoration and maintenance purposes. It was installed in the new maintenance workshop of the museum recently built as a result of a lottery grant given to the museum. A viewing gallery over the workshop is due to open to the public at Easter 2002. Peter Bird, Mechanical Engineer at the museum said, “the accurate lifting controls of the remotely controlled crane will make maintenance work safer, easier and quicker.”

The crane order was placed by G. F Tomlinson Building Limited. Peter Reeves, Quantity Surveyor at Tomlinson Building said “the crane order was won as a result of being named by the client as a preferred subcontractor and also due to the quotation offering value for money”.