That is not a Rowan car Mal, that is a McKeen car.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 15:10 Mal Rowe, mal.rowe@...> wrote:

> On 15/10/2020 21:29, Radcliffe, John (L&W, Waite Campus) wrote:

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> The attached photo, from the Vic Solomons collection, was forwarded to me

> by a colleague in London who had received it from Bruce Macdonald for

> comment. Vic had apparently not realised that the trailer was unlike any

> other in Sydney and that there was no previous knowledge or photo of it.

> Bruce and my colleague have discussed it at length and suggest that it

> might just be the Sydney Rowan car, heavily rebuilt as a trailer, for which

> there is also no known photograph. No other possibility seems to present

> itself. The louvre panels above the windows are a feature seen on some

> early trams built by Brown, Marshalls, the builder of the Sydney Rowan

> car. A centre and rear end entrance were a feature of many Rowan cars and

> if this is one, then the motor unit end has been rebuilt to provide a

> second end entrance.

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>

> Can anyone offer any comment on this hypothesis or otherwise identify the

> trailer?

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>

> What an interesting find!

>

> I have no knowledge of the Sydney Rowan cars, but do offer the little

> knowledge I have of the Melbourne one (... or two - see attached).

>

> The text and pictures are from "VR to '62" by Leo Harrigan.

>

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