Maybe a visitor from the USA who hasn't figured it out yet?
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:42 AM Andrew Cook d3619@...> wrote:
> . . . and look at the dill with his car on the wrong side of the road
> waiting for the railway gates to open in shot 04660!
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> *From:*tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...>
> on behalf of Andrew Cook d3619@...>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 2 July 2020 4:38 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [TramsDownUnder] TMSV # 36
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> Bingo! I was on that tour. It ran on Saturday, 29 July, 1972. L 101 was
> used ex South Melbourne Depot and ran to/along Holden Street, Moreland,
> Sydney Road, City-Elizabeth Street, Footscray, West Maribyrnong and the
> Showgrounds Loop, before returning to South.
> Happy snap 04658 shows 101 terminating in the Moreland stub; 04659 is a
> view of 101 through the Moreland Road railway gates--Lindsay Bounds is
> behind 101 and at right, Tony Smith talks to Ron Scholten and (I think)
> Lindsay Adams; 04660 has 101 on the stub being passed by a down 2-car Tait
> electric set arriving at Moreland station.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew Cook (glad to have been on the tour).
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> *From:*tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...>
> on behalf of Tony Galloway arg@...>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 2 July 2020 1:34 PM
> *To:* tramsDownUnder Roderick Smith via tramsdownunder@...>
> *Subject:* Re: [TramsDownUnder] TMSV # 36
>
> 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 :
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> 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.
>
> On Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 9:25:51 AM UTC+10, Mal Rowe wrote:
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> 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!
>
> With regard to the pictures of 671 at South Melbourne, Ron Scholten writes:
>
> "I got a phone call from ‘ 616 ‘ that a w4 was on its way from Thornbury
> to SMD for a charter
>
> So out I went with my camera & met up with Dave Menzies outside the Depot
>
> But - no sooner that it arrived - out it came again to go back to
> Thornbury & be scrapped
>
> The Foreman saw its condition & banned it along with all other w4 - plus
> the w3 class
>
> I think this is a Dave M photo as only Dave & myself were present
>
> 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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