Don, pic: 0106.SL0006.jpg What is the location for this pic please? I
don't recognise the area.

Thanks

sb

From:TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Don Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 12:07 AM
To: TDU
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] 1954 Royal Visit Decorated Sydney Trams.

Ratting through the slike collection, I managed to locate a snap of one of
the two cars painted white. Car 1951 is shown decending inbound in William
St. Darlinghurst, bound for Queens Square. Note that all the Royal Visit
stuff, the crowns, the EIIR cyphers etc. were all removed once the Queen has
shot-through. The tramcars remained in their unique painted livery until
their time came for the next paint job to fell due. For example, car 1951
was painted for the royal visit in 1954, and was repainted in back to
standard colours in 1957. The small car numbers were introduced at about
the time these decorated cars started running, and were some of the first
car treated.

Questions have been asked about any identifying features to seperate pre-war
and post-war R1-class cars. The range of car numbers of course is the best
guide,

Clyde Engineering Co. - 1933 to 1987 built 1935-36 Pre-War

Commonwealth Engineering Co. - 1988 to 2087 built 1950-53 Post-War

Clyde and Commonwealth where in fact the same company, having had a name
change during the war. The jigs used to fabricate the tramcar bodies
started life in 1933 fabricating R-cars.

but there wereare identifiable differences in the interior. The post-war
cars had smooth moulded Masonite ceilings, the pre-war cars had tongue and
groove timber ceilings. The post-war cars had unpainted stainless-steel
hand rails, the pre-war cars had handrails treated with white baked enamel,
and lastly the driver's collapsible rests (seats) in each drivers cab had a
wafer-thin padded cushion attached.

Regards,

Don Campbell in Sydney, who still writes with a biro. Doesn't everyone?