Gday Tim

The manual lap valves at Ballaraat are

SV, Slide, SL, Rotary and PV3, Piston

I imagine Bendigo is the same.

The controllers are mainly WH TIC and TIF,then GE K36, 2 motor
K35, 4 motor, GE B23, 2 motor and M&MTB RC2, 4 motor

Our Minimum Traction cars spin readily on both motors on wet track
on the 1st notch

Cheers, Mick

On 22/07/2017 9:51 PM, Timtimmyblythman@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Hi Mal,

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> Bendigo 7 aka PMTT/MMTB 76, J class built by Meadowbank is definitely at Westinghouse type controller. I remember this well, as it was the second tram I drove in my training at Bendigo. I think it was mostly used as such due to the piston type manual lap brake valve it had compared to no 25's slide valve.

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> 25 is a GE controller which means the two cars gave a good representation of the equipment. Birneys of course being a different matter again.

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> 17 and ESCo 8 are the other two Westinghouse cars I remember. We had a motor fault with 17 once, and it was very difficult to operate with a motor cut out, so much torque in 1st notch that the wheels often spun.

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> Regards,

> Tim