Brilliant nostalgia Mal, for those who like it so much! Peckham P27 truck?

G.

On 3/03/2015 9:41 PM, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> One of my not too subtle strategies to get us back on topic is to try to

> get some interest in Aussie trams by sharing rare pictures.

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> Perhaps this will work ...

> http://tdu.to/VR1_GreySt_StKilda_Nowell.jpg

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> This pic, from one of the Nowell brothers shows VR tram number 1 in Grey

> St - at the intersection of Fitzroy St close to the St Kilda station

> terminus.

> This was a car built in 1907 on the remains of the original number 1

> which was destroyed by fire in the first yaer of the VR trasm in 1906.

> By the time this pic was made, No 1 was in use as a track cleaner.

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> Mal Rowe - gob-smacked at this rare pic

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