Kevin Taig wrote:

> Anyway back onto the track and more correctly the bogies. Your photo at

> Ellen Street clearly shows the Brill 82M and 82T bogies designed by

> Brill. SAR bought 1 pattern car and 24 chassis initially so if the

> bogies came with the chassis, they are Brill built. This importation in

> 1926 appears to be the first use of hornless bogies in Australia, and

> substantially ahead of any tramway application.

>

> "Electric Railway trucks"-Charlton gives the info that they are a

> "built-up" (fabricated) frame construction of 47000lbs capacity. Of

> interest is the specs for the 81M/81T bogies for the Model 55 had a

> channel frame and 36000 lbs capacity. In the bogie book, they are shown

> as outside hung but the SAR versions had inside bearings. This may have

> been part of the Service Motor Truck Co to Brill transition. The 55s

> were ordered from Service but delivered by Brill.


The railmotor operated by the Pichi Richi railway at Quorn certainly has
a Brill branded truck.

http://tdu.to/Brill106_Quorn_16June2007.jpg
http://tdu.to/Brill-railmotor-axle.JPG

Mal Rowe - who enjoyed a ride on an 'honorary tram' at Quorn