Gday Roger, Tony,All

Maybe Ballarat and Bendigo didnt trust the Radiax trucks to
stay on the track

Cheers, Mick

On 23/07/2017 10:57 AM, 'Roger Greenwood'efftech@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> Replying to Tony Galloway’s post </It’s curious that this class of car was the only one that wasn’t adopted by the other two SEC systems when Geelong was closed. They were no more primitive than the other four wheelers, just bigger/>, Mal Rowe responded..

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> /<It's my guess (and that's all it is) that one reason these cars were not considered for transfer to the other provincial tramways was because of their straight sill construction - resulting in very high step heights>/.

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> Another possible explanation is that only 4 of the 8 Pengelleys were ever converted to one-man operation in Geelong obliging the SEC to use these with a crew of 2 in Ballarat/Bendigo, or undertake the conversion themselves.

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> With the future of the remaining SEC Provincial tramways uncertain, the expense of crewing single-truck cars with driver and conductor, or the cost of converting them to one-man operation, was probably viewed as being uneconomical.

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> Roger Greenwood

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