"Silver Bullets" referred to these (pointy-nose) cars when they bore the
Aluminium Frost livery, official documents labelled them "Four Motor" trams
(FM for short); the eight that were constructed using parts salvaged from
Paddington Depot were appropriately called "Phoenixes", which was
officially (unusually !) acknowledged.
The Maximum-Traction trams built for Brisbane prior to the Drop Centre cars
were called Dreadnaughts, although the official description was
"Centre-Aisle" tramcars. A handful of single-truckers were rebuilt to
resemble the more modern-looking Centre-Aisle cars, earning them the
nickname "Baby Dreadnoughts".
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[photos again from TDU Archives, showing Dreadnoughts captured by Noel
Reed's camera]
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