Thanks Mal, that's great. Yes, Brizzy's version is very up-market indeed.
I never realised that was a water tower.

On Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 7:51:26 PM UTC+11 Mal Rowe wrote:

> On 21/11/2020 18:25, David Featherstone wrote:

> > Just one question - that water tank. What was the purpose for that?

> > They had mains water, no doubt hoses for fire duties and gully traps -

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> Fire service supply. After the loss of the total VR tram fleet in 1906

> all tram depots had high quality fire protection - and that meant having

> a backup to mains supply if possible.

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> See: http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/pmtt.htm for the P&MTT

> policy.

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> I assume that the tower at Brisbane's Ipswich Rd depot served a similar

> purpose - with a bit more elegance.

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> https://tdu.to/i/74964

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> Mal Rowe

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