For a US Museum, the left hand running probably isn't an issue - as long as
the doors can be opened on either side in either direction. Certainly at
our operation (Seashore) it'd be no issue, as we'd almost always have a
conductor on the car to attend to passengers irregardless of it's
configuration as a one-man car. Of course, I doubt many US museums would
have the funds available to transport a car that far, let alone purchase it
too.

From a preservation standpoint, I think it would be an excellent contrast to
other contemporaries that are starting to be preserved here (Boeing LRVs
now, down the road, Toronto CLRVs & Philadelphia Kawasakis for North
America) that represent the link between new and old for the surviving
legacy tram/streetcar systems.

-Jeff Bennett (occasionally gets into arguments at said museum with folks
who think PCCs aren't "real streetcars")

Hi Greg/all

$4,000 possibly is not a bad price for a fully operational Z2. Unfortunately
the left hand running configuration would no doubt go against an American
museum or operator such as San Francisco MUNI buying 112.

No doubt any museum in Oz which wanted a Z already has one. They are nice
cars but certainly a great deal more troublesome than a standard tram.

Attached is a photo of Z2 112 in happier days in Bourke Street Mall in
December 1980.

Regards

Dick, who enjoys driving her younger sister, 111, at Loftus.