On 24/04/2017 9:59 PM, Richard Youltressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
> A fascinating document Richard. Thank you very much for sharing. It will be saved.

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> As far as street railways are concerned, Sydneys order for just over 200 sets made it one of the major purchasers. However it was amusing that a few sets were bought by some company called Christ Church Tramways, Sydney, Australia.

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> From that document the only PC controllers that went to Cuba are listed as PC5 so very possibly the 9 notches as shown in the photograph would be the 5 series and 4 parallel as described by Mick Duncan.

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> I also note that the Hershey bought a number of 32 Volt motor generator sets and in a couple of scenes in the video these were heard slowing down and stopping after a pantograph had been lowered.

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Yes a fascinating document.

The Hershey order is listed on page 10: 15 sets of PC 101 gear with 32V MG set.

A couple of other things caught my eye:

On page 3, there is an order of one PC5 set by the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust.
I can only guess that they imported a set with a view to using PC5 in what became the L class.

What's missing is any mention of PC-M gear - Melbourne bought large quantities of this for the suburban electrics - both the Taits and the swing door conversions.

There's an ad for PC control gear in the TDU archives at: http://tdu.to/a34008/electricrailwayj622mcgrrich_0116.jpg
It shows a Tait set, but also fails to list the VR as a major customer.

Mal Rowe - puzzled