Hi David

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be recorded, or that it’s not significant. I'm just saying it looks like it was designed by a pimp.

To my eyes it has that tawdry side-show-attraction sort of fakeness about it, like the trams were touting for the crown casino, the sort of thing a used car salesman or property developer would consider “classy”. In other words it’s redolent of its era.

If they wanted something really flash for the CC they should have gone for the early 50s Brunswick Green, with cream trim and gold lining out. But, of course, that would remind people that their beloved M&MTB was dead and gone, and its corporeal remnants flogged off for a mess of pottage to dicers and slicers who made a total balls-up of it.

And we couldn’t have had that, could we ?

It might have “lowered public morale”, or something………

Tony G

> On 22 Sep 2017, at 4:03 pm, espee8800espee8800@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Yes you are not wrong but it is still part of the tram scene in Melbourne and needs to be recorded. Just like the orange and grey of the railways.

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> On 22 September 2017 at 15:55, Tony Gallowayarg@... mailto:arg@aapt.net.au [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@... mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> I’d call it an “amusement park ride fake olde timey” type livery - try hard and bogus.

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> It dates from the Kennett era, doesn’t it ?

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> David in Avenel.au

> {Before you change anything, learn why it is the way it is.)

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