Re: Ron # 71 - L101. F201
  Tony Galloway

Thanks for posting that John - it would have been a well proportioned, good looking tram.

Tony

> On 2 Apr 2021, at 9:24 am, Radcliffe, John (L&W, Waite Campus) John.Radcliffe@...> wrote:

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> Tony – The design only had access at the ends for the motorman.

> John Radcliffe

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> Railway and Tramway World, 13 June 1918

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> From:tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...> On Behalf Of Tony Galloway

> Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2021 10:26 PM

> To: tramsDownUnder Roderick Smith via tramsdownunder@...>

> Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Ron # 71 - L101. F201

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> In “Destination Paradise” there was a drawing of a never built earlier F class design with an arched roof and two doors each side in the drop centre, Brill 77E trucks.

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> I can’t recall whether there were end doors on this design, but it wasn’t built due to WW1 and when the F class eventually got built it had the multi door drop centre and a flat roof similar to the Sydney P class.

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> Tony

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> On 1 Apr 2021, at 4:45 pm, Mark Skinner emessk@... mailto:emessk@gmail.com> wrote:

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> It's quite possible that Pengelly was involved in the conversation as well. It would be interesting to see the correspondence of the day.

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> Mark

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> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 3:24 pm Radcliffe, John (L&W, Waite Campus), John.Radcliffe@... mailto:John.Radcliffe@csiro.au> wrote:

> Do you think Alex Cameron and William Goodman may have compared design notes? The first Adelaide F type “dropcentre” car entered service on 22 May 1922, about 13 months after L101.MTT reports show that there were eight Adelaide F type cars in traffic by 30 June 1922.

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> John Radcliffe

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> From:tramsdownunder@... mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com tramsdownunder@... mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of David Featherstone

> Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2021 2:12 PM

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> Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Ron # 71

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> Ron Scholten, who knows a thing or two, has brought it to my attention that L Class 101 entered service - variously put as 13 or 31 April, in 1921.

> She is 100 years old! Alex Cameron, the visionary Chairman of the PMTT, thereafter the first Chairman of the MMTB, ordered these wonderful cars. Considered ahead of their time when new. When it was decided to build a fleet of 4 motor cars for the MMTB - the L Class design was just too expensive, so a stripped down cheaper car was designed - our wonderful W class and its derivatives.

> Who would have thought the RAAF has also has celebrated their centenary at the same time.

> Happy birthdays all round.

> A lovely shot from Ron of 101 in the Sth Melb Per Way yard in August 1972.

> Cheers.

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