Re: Brisbane newspaper tram clippings from 1963
  David Batho

I wonder what the official response to the trams making profits, buses making a loss story was?

David


> On 21 Nov 2020, at 2:25 pm, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@...> wrote:

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> A local radio presenter each month hosts a ‘Time Capsule’ program focussing on a particular year, highlighting music, newspaper advertisements for products and comparing what they cost in todays money, job vacancies (with often what today would be politically incorrect requirements of applicants), and also letters to the editor. Most astonishing were the exact names and addresses of couples who had just become divorced, including the ‘misdemeanours’ of the guilty party!

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> The following are transport-related clippings dating from 1963 following the Paddington tram depot fire disaster of late 1962, and show the writers’ dissatisfactions with bus replacements. As we know, their feelings were ignored.

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> As for the side-on tram collision, obviously the driver of the FM shunting at the Wharf St crossover did not check the other track to ensure another tram was not approaching from behind from further up the street.

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> Incidentally this presenter enjoys the Brisbane tram photos published here by Ian Saxon and others and sent on by me.

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> Anyway some of you may find some interesting reading below.

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