On 3/7/20 9:16 am, David McLoughlin wrote:
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> The Loftus tram that always stunned me on visits was Melbourne 111;  because Z trams older and of the earlier type than that as-new specimen were still in daily service in Melbourne. I still shake my head at why 111 and other Z trams newer than ones kept in service were let go like that. They are all gone now of course but that only happened when the Es arrived.

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Here is both Dandenong products together.

Taken August last year. It had been 22 years to the day 2107 was 'signed over to the operator' - so we called the sign over date it's 'birthday' and held a birthday party for it!.

For a while there it looked like the Variotrams would be last domestically produced tram in Australia. Fortunately the E class program broke the drought. I hope the E don't turn out to be the last domestically produced tram.

China and India are busy wiping out our own manufacturing capabilities.