I’m pleased that it’s so easy to twist your arm, David.
Photographs appreciated, of course. While I was too late to drive the L class in regular service, thanks to the foresight of the Met I did drive an L a few times in the summer Saint Kilda beach services which of course were in fact regular service anyway.
It’s nice that people in the Met had a heart for older unusual trams and kept them tucked away here in there after they were really no longer required, which must have greatly facilitated many of them being available when museum groups developed to the point where they could accept these obsolete cars. I can’t imagine that happening much under private operators.
Regards,
Richard
> On 2 Jul 2020, at 3:44 pm, David Featherstone davidh.feathers@...> wrote:
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> Thanks Richard, just a mention of the Ls makes me want to attach a file. At Thornbury Depot. Terrible seeing them there. They should have been out running around like hairy dogs, not in a kennel. Oh well. All good things. Fortunately so many are preserved.
> I will attach another one. Around 1979 GH were running 105 ALL DAY, and on Saturdays!! Just fantastic. GH loved their L, that's for sure.
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>> On Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 2:54:06 PM UTC+10, Richard Youl wrote:
>> Great shots as usual, David.
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>> While the L class are the topic, does anyone know why the magnificent MMTB did not adopt the generous body width of these cars? The W2s seem somewhat narrower, limiting the standing room inside.
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>> Regards,
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>>>> On 2 Jul 2020, at 12:50 pm, David Featherstone davidh....@...> 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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