Origin of Trucks for VR Luxury 52 - 54
  Roger Greenwood

Hi Kevin,

Well that nails it for the drop-centre frames of 52-54.

I wonder if something might turn up at Hawthorn that indicates whether the design of VR bogie trams was influenced by the geometry of the Grey St/Barkly St S-bends.

Roger Greenwood

From:tramsdownunder@... [mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Taig
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2018 7:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Origin of Trucks for VR Luxury 52 - 54

Hi Roger & All,

I had a look at Hawthorn today and managed to find 3 blueprints specifying construction of new underframes for 45 ft. luxury cars all dated in 1941.

Inspection of #53 confirmed the construction as three was no signs of any transition plate from the saloon to the drop centre and no sign of riveting.

The rivets used in the frame were definitely railway rivets – about 2 sizes larger than the tramway ones..

Kind Regards

Kevin

From: Roger Greenwood mailto:efftech@bigpond.com

Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2018 10:37 AM

To:tramsdownunder@...

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Origin of Trucks for VR Luxury 52 - 54

During a discussion with Lloyd Rogers in 2005 he contended that three of the chassis for the four uncompleted VR bogie trams were applied to the construction of VR 52 – 54, hence the appearance of a shortened MMTB W7.

He also opined that the basic dimensions of the original fleet of VR bogie trams were influenced by the geometry of the S-curves at Grey and Barkly St..

Running a tape measure over the centre sections of VR 53 and the restored VR bogie tram at Haddon might throw some light on these.

Roger Greenwood


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