On 13/08/18 09:00,transitclassics@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> I note comments on the other site about converting Z's by chopping ends

> off and inserting new centre sections etc, why not do it properly? Pull

> out the plans for what the last 30 B's were supposed to be (they would

> have been the C class)


Even the B class are not considered too old to do such radical surgery to.
10 years ago, adding a low floor middle to the B's might have been
viable. Not now.

And given the price the Chinese could turn out a complete new 100% low
floor tram, chopping up 40 year old Z cars to turn them into a partial
low floor artic doesn't seem sensible.

The places that did do such drastic changes were eastern European cities
with ruined economies, no cash for new tram cars and a large skilled
workforce looking for work. Any work.