Years ago when Preston Workshops had tradesmen skilled in restoring W class trams (they clearly don’t now viz the W8 conversions in Bendigo) I thought it would be a good idea to fully overhaul redundant Ws and sell them overseas. Cities in the US were paying Gomaco and others a small fortune to build them new old-style trams. The profits could have been used to maintain a limited number of Ws in Melbourne.

The fossils in the Victorian National Trust had other less sensible ideas.

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> On 25 Jul 2017, at 10:00, Matthew Geiermatthew@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> On 25/07/17 09:55, Andrew Cookd3619@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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>> Andrew (who thinks that rust will soon set in, courtesy of closeness to

>> Port Phillip Bay!).

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> They could easily sell a good deal of those stored trams for 'adaptive

> reuse' or even to places that want to operate 'vintage' trams.

> Instead they rust and rot in Newport.

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> I assume they are still covered by Victorian National Trust export from

> Victoria embargo, and that it appears they would rather they rust in

> piece than see re-use outside of Victoria ?

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