Now the question is, why was the L class design considered too expensive so the MMTB built the W1 class?
Regards
Dudley
On 2/04/2021 10:50 am, Tony Galloway wrote:
> 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@... mailto:John.Radcliffe@csiro.au> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>> *From:*tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com tramsdownunder@... mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com>*On Behalf Of*Tony Galloway
>> *Sent:*Thursday, 1 April 2021 10:26 PM
>> *To:*tramsDownUnder Roderick Smith via tramsdownunder@... mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com>
>> *Subject:*Re: [TramsDownUnder] Ron # 71 - L101. F201
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> Tony
>>
>>
>> On 1 Apr 2021, at 4:45 pm, Mark Skinner emessk@...
>> mailto:emessk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's quite possible that Pengelly was involved in the
>> conversation as well. It would be interesting to see the
>> correspondence of the day.
>> Mark
>> 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.
>> John Radcliffe
>> *From:*tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com
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>> mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com>*On Behalf Of*David
>> Featherstone
>> *Sent:*Thursday, 1 April 2021 2:12 PM
>> *To:*TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@...
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>> *Subject:*[TramsDownUnder] Ron # 71
>> 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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