It's a big shame that there aren't any trolley buses running in Australian museums.

Regards
Geoffrey

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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:44:13 +1000
Subject: RE: Exhibits at Tramway Museums. [was RE: [TramsDownUnder] PhotosfromNSWLibrariesMuseums - Manly Ferry Wharf at Circular Quay circa 1946.jpg} also [ TramsDownUnder - was 3 continents in OO scale].

Wouldn’t turning a TB around within the confines of the Museum grounds be difficult, even with the benefits of wireless traction?
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Sent: Sunday, 27 September 2015 3:32 PM
To:TramsDownUnder@...
Subject: Re: Exhibits at Tramway Museums. [was RE: [TramsDownUnder] PhotosfromNSWLibrariesMuseums - Manly Ferry Wharf at Circular Quay circa 1946.jpg} also [ TramsDownUnder - was 3 continents in OO scale]. An alternative to the expense of adding another wire (the LPTB found that this was very expensive as the existing tramway poles were
designed just to support a single wire, and had to replace many of the poles) is to tow a two wheeled trailer connected to the
negative side of the in-bus circuits. Hopefully only the positive pole would ever be put up! In the UK and possibly other places,
the TBs dragged a skate along the grooved rail, but this may not be suitable at STM.

Regards

Dudley Horscroft
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> 2. Trolley buses are a part of several British transport museums. The

> 'other' STM in the USA has many 'streetcars', 'interurbans', 'subway cars'

> and also several 'trackless trolleys' which operate at their museum site.

> The STM at Loftus has one former trolley bus from the Kogarah area in Sydney

> and there is one of the original single deck Sydney trolley buses in storage

> at a Powerhouse Museum facility.

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> One or two trolley buses could form an interesting addition to the tram

> fleet at Loftus. Extra negative trolley wires would allow trolley bus

> operation within the museum grounds. The auxiliary battery which is used in

> modern trolley buses would allow short journeys 'beyond the wires'.

> Overnight stabling of trolley buses could be arranged at local facilities

> rather than at the tramway museum which is at its maximum occupancy by

> trams. An alternative to a trolley bus auxiliary battery could be a trailer

> mounted diesel generator set. A generator set could also prove useful for

> operation of work trams 'beyond the wires'.

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