Am I correct in thinking that this film has been stretched sideways a heck of a lot? 10
ft wide buses!!!
Regards
Dudley Horscroft
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From:TramsDownUnder@... [mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, 9 October 2017 3:01 PM
To:TramsDownUnder@...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Sydney tram history
I just watched this little puff piece from STA - what a dishonest and self serving
corporate tug-fest. As with other inconvenient entities in this country isnt it
remarkable how the trams just began to disappear as if of their own sad will, with no
external agency involved, as if the mere presence of the diesel powered, steel bodied bus
sapped their will to live ?
And they didnt even have to send armed mounted police to disperse them, just rounded
em up and send them to Randwick for the burning.
Every change is progress, another glorious Panglossian step towards the sunny uplands of
unadulterated bus bliss we enjoy today
.
Yeah, sure.
As for the film itself, Id say the steam tram was on the Kogarah system - I reckon thats
the notoriously unused fine flange electric track beside the railway flange steam
track in the double track, head on view of the steam motor, and the other steam tram scene
is on the Sandringham-Dolls Point loop.
At least all those old Cinesound and Pathé newsreels arent mouldering away till the
nitrate film turns to dust (how much have we lost ?) it can be endlessly replayed to show
how well the wisdom and foresight of our predecessors has served us.
Tony G
On 7 Oct 2017, at 9:23 am,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder]
TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
This is a short film produced by State Transit about their history (though extending back
to the ferries too), but of interest are a number of film clips and images of the trams
and trolleybuses, including some I've never seen before:
https://vimeo.com/235217867 https://vimeo.com/235217867
They well-demonstrate the massive job done by Sydney trams and the relative quiet life of
the buses subsequently! Some of the commentary doesn't quite line up with the
corresponding image (e.g. the "government" steam tram was Saywell's tram and the horse
tram was the later one, not the 1860s one), but small flaws in an otherwise good
presentation.
Tony P