Tram Gunzle wrote:
> Why were the newest trams in Brisbane called "Iron Dukes" ?
I've always thought they were called "Silver Bullets," which is what
Brisbane people called them when I was a kid.
They were also called "FMs", and the last eight of them "Phoenixes."
A particular class of Brisbane single-truckers were called Dreadnoughts. A
kind of iron duke.
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