 Similarly, in 1878 a Loftus Perkins tramway locomotive was built, fed by a water-tube boiler nominally rated at 500psi.Leeds Corporation placed an order for 25 electric tramcars in 1896, and the vehicles entered service in 1897, but there were no repeat orders.Greenwood & Batley's first successful venture into locomotive building occurred in July 1927, when five battery-electric narrow gauge locomotives were completed for Edmund Nuttall's Mersey Tunnel contract.