I reckon the Depression would have had a lot to do with it.

There were proposals for one man cars in Sydney after WW1, both Birneys and a 2-motor bogie car with the same general architecture as a Brisbane Dropcentre but shorter, but nothing came of it and the lines they were intended for were never built.

Tony

> On 5 Jun 2020, at 10:10 am, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@...> wrote:

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> Interesting.

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> Perhaps somebody knows when the tramway union became so dead against driver-only trams.

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> At my time on the job, it was necessary to have a conductor when taking a tram out for a changeover, that is, when no passengers were going to be carried, out or back.

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> Regards,

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>> Cheers

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