Maybe that Mick, or the long wheelbase plus poor tracking would spread the the gauge on curves and put the other cars in the dirt.

For an organisation that squeezed as much as it did from its frugal assets there must have been damn good reasons for the SECV Tramways to discard them.

They could have bought the X1s and X2s when Footscray closed too, but didn’t, so they really weren’t interested in having Radiax trucks on the property. Note Auckland put a short wheelbase truck under their X1.

Tony G

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> Gday Roger, Tony,All

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