One of those cars looks like the R1 that was burnt out in a collision with a petrol truck on its first day in service.

Tony P
---InTramsDownUnder@..., <noelreed10@...> wrote :

Back in the fifties, some fans were able to walk around the yard at Sydney’s Randwick Tramway Workshops to see and photograph trams which had been discarded after spending their last years in passenger service.
Here are a few of the sad sights which were seen in June 1953.
Noel Reed.