On 20/05/2017 5:59 AM,mcloughlin.dj@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> > I suggest you examine the documents from the Traffic Managers conferences from that era that I passed on to the TMSV prior to my return to the UK in 1976.

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> It would be very useful if such documents could be digitised. Or are they in digital form somewhere?

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I'm not aware of these docs, but will be at Bylands tomorrow and will see what I can find in the filing cabinets.
If I find them, then yes, they will be digitised.

As an aside ... here's an early W class plan I scanned recently for the TMSV archives.
http://tdu.to/4motor-bogie.jpg

Have a look at the 'crush load' figure!

> > I know that Bolte wanted to convert route 8 to buses in that time.

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> Can you imagine if that had happened? Such an important route now. Buses would simply be choked in the traffic along Toorak Road.

.... which is what happens with the trams now - but there would be three times as many buses adding to the congestion.

http://tdu.to/a43015/ToorakRd_9August2014.JPG

Mal Rowe - digital archivist!