Considering that during that period of major growth during the first 15 years of electrification they purchased somewhere around 1,500 trams, it would certainly have been a good series of orders for equipment suppliers.

Tony P

---InTramsDownUnder@..., <gregsutherland@...> wrote :

I seem to recall seeing somewhere that in the early years of the 20th
century the NSW Tramways were GE's fourth biggest customer worldwide.

Does anyone else have a similar recollection and if so a source that
could be quoted?

Greg