Hi Mal,

The body of 1936 is at the Brisbane Tramway Museum, along with 2 un-motored R type trucks recovered from the Parkes telescope (The Dish) and 2 motors donated by Clyde Engineering in Brisbane.
Recovering the trucks was quite an adventure.
We were advised that they were getting rid of the trucks that were being used to support the trailing cables when the dish rotated.
John Lambert, Peter Burdon and I hired an Avis flatbed truck and drove it to Parkes telescope.
After a guided tour of the dish, including a walk in the dish itself, the trucks were loaded by their Blitz crane truck, which obviously wasn't rated for that weight as the front wheels lifted right off the ground, so we all piled onto the front of the vehicle and sort of kangaroo hopped the trucks over to our flatbed where the Blitz loaded them with its' cabin pointing skywards.
Once they were lashed down we set off for Brissie but only got as far as Dubbo when the clutch gave out in the International Acco truck. By driving it like a crash gearbox we made it to a motel and advised Avis, who organised a tow truck to take it to the local International dealer the next morning and a Commodore to get us home.
The tow was exciting as it was towed with a solid bar whilst I steered it to prevent the tyres scrubbing on corners. This was done with the swinging hook of the tow crane about 6 inches away from the windscreen directly in front of my face at 60kmh.
Compared to all this, our trip back to Brisbane was relatively boring.
The trucks were dropped off at Ferny Grove a few days later and are still underneath R/R1 1936.
The two motors were part of a test bench at Clyde Engineering's Eagle Farm factory, now long gone.
I believe John Lambert has some photos of the Parkes excursion.

Cheers,
Mick in Brisbane, WH&S champion!

-----Original Message-----
From:tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...> On Behalf Of Mal Rowe
Sent: Thursday, 28 January 2021 10:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] 1950 traffic in Sydney

On 28/01/2021 10:59, Greg Sutherland wrote:
> Not quite correct.

>

> The view is from Darlinghurst not Kings Cross. A view from Kings

> Cross would be looking down William Street and feature R and R1

> tramcars exclusively.

Thanks - I should have known that as my daughter lived in Darlo for several years.
>

> Also note that the photo is dated 1936 and not 1950 as shown in the

> Subject line,

>

The 1936 in the filename is something I added. It is the number of the only tram I could read the number on.

The 30 Jan 1950 date is what SLNSW quote from the ACP envelope that the negs were in.

Mal

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