Re: GE's first project in Australia
  Richard Youl

Quite an interesting story. No doubt GE found the Sydney tramways also to be quite profitable with various types of remote control and automatic acceleration equipment used on trams, particularly the O and P classes.

There are probably members of this group who follow electro pneumatic control gear closer than I do and are familiar with the various types produced by General Electric.

While the Sydney P class used PC5 (I think), I am currently preparing a video on the Hershey interurban line in Cuba. On one ride the PC control on a Brill car failed and I am wondering whether anybody knows what type was used on those Brills. It looked bigger than what is on a P. A photo from the video could be supplied.

A search of the Internet to date has revealed nothing on GE control gear, let alone what was used in Cuba.

Regards,

Richard

> On 24 Apr 2017, at 10:18 am, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Friends at Brisbane Tramway Museum have alerted me to an article on the

> Australian General Electric website:

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> https://www.gereports.com.au/2017/04/13/backtracking-ges-first-ever-australian-project/

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> Mal Rowe - thanking Peter Hyde for the heads up

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