Little Dancer


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 series adopt to articulate 3 cut long body.
Type A series adopt 3 or 5 articulation bodies.
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".
"C" is an initial of "Combination".
The traction motor is downsized to the limit, and the same driving system as the conventional vehicle is adopted.