This triggered a memory, and I found a report on this tour with L 101 in the October 1972 issue of Trolley Wire.

It’s on pages 17-18 :

https://www.sydneytramwaymuseum.com.au/members.old/Trolley_Wire/142%20-%20Trolley%20Wire%20-%20Oct%201972.pdf

The other items referred to in the report are the W3 and W4 withdrawals, along with PCC 980, which was at the time to be either converted to resemble a W7, or scrapped if not viable to do that.

Also mentioned was the MMTB tendering for 100 new trams, and Preston building 1041using 980’s electrical and running gear.

Curiously the date of the tour with 101 isn’t recorded.

Tony

> On 2 Jul 2020, at 12:50 pm, David Featherstone davidh.feathers@...> wrote:

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> Had these shots - from somewhere. The first one was posted on TDU by Graeme Farrar on 10/02/09. Whether he took the shot is unclear. I could not find the next two. Anyway, good old 101.

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> On Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 9:25:51 AM UTC+10, Mal Rowe wrote:

> On 01/07/2020 23:33, David Featherstone wrote:

>> Post one of this series of 671 or all of them? All of them of course!

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> With regard to the pictures of 671 at South Melbourne, Ron Scholten writes:

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> "I got a phone call from ‘ 616 ‘ that a w4 was on its way from Thornbury to SMD for a charter

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> So out I went with my camera & met up with Dave Menzies outside the Depot

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> But - no sooner that it arrived - out it came again to go back to Thornbury & be scrapped

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> The Foreman saw its condition & banned it along with all other w4 - plus the w3 class

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> I think this is a Dave M photo as only Dave & myself were present

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> The charter was for Jeff Bounds to be the last tram to use the Moreland spur - L 101 took that honour."

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