Re: DDA compliance and Melbourne trams - VAGO report
  Mal Rowe

On 28/11/2020 18:54, TP wrote:
> You do realise Dudley that the E class are being manufactured very

> slowly in order to spread out the work. In a major European factory,

> these could be churned out at least one a week.

>

I visited the Bombardier site when the Es were first being built.

Our guide told us that with an initial order of only 50 trams they could
not justify investing in a production line approach - so the trams are
virtually hand built.

The 'slow drip' approach to placing orders is not conducive to efficiency.

Mal Rowe - hoping for more oders