The T1 was one of the first tramcars based on the American Presidents' Conference Committee concept, produced by Czechoslovak company ČKD Tatra. 287 multiple T1 units were built between 1952 and 1958. Most of them were used in Czechoslovakia, but 22 were shipped abroad: 2 to Warsaw and the remaining 20 to Rostov-on-Don.
The first prototype of T1, T1 TW 5001, which today is considered the forefather of all Tatra trams, premiered in the streets of Prague on 22 January 1951. It is now on exhibition in the Prague Museum Depot (Muzeum Vozovna Střešovice) in Střešovice. The cars remained in use into the 1960s, when they were converted into T3-type vehicles. The last T1 was retired on 4 April 1987, in Plzeň.
Production New Tatra T1 units were delivered to the following cities:
Country City Type Delivery years Number Fleet numbers Czechoslovakia Košice T1 1956 – 1958 11 201–211 Most – Litvínov T1 1957 – 1958 34 201–234 Olomouc T1 1957 – 1958 10 101–110 Ostrava T1 1955 – 1957 44 501–544 Plzeň T1 1955 – 1957 33 101–133 Prague T1 1951 – 1956 133 5001–5133 Poland Warsaw T1 1955 2 501, 502 Soviet Union Rostov-on-Don T1 1957 20 301–320Total:287
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