Something odd about all this --- I didn’t get a response to my query from TDU but a day later via Mal. But anyway Jeremy, yes, there’s a butterbox body at Bylands, or was – suppose it is still there. I was present there when the Penngelley (which I had helped paint as weather protection when in open storage) arrived but don’t actually remember the BB arrival. I don’t think memory is defective but could be, maybe somebody else can confirm its existence.

Bill J

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From:tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...> On Behalf Of Jeremy Wainwright
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Does TMSV indeed have a Butterbox? As I understand it, a

Geelong Pengelley fetched up at Bylands (with the attendant need for a Radiax truck), but a Butterbox?

JWW

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Hi Bill,

I did answer yesterday - see: https://tdu.to/m/279534/re-ballarat-tramway-museum https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftdu.to%2Fm%2F279534%2Fre-ballarat-tramway-museum&data=04%7C01%7C%7C12ad7225ceb94ee0b23f08d9ae3ca0c5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637732397733872912%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=k9tV9VyfmoU4e2l%2FKAspOHhEtf1dMI4I9j%2FCeJe%2Bpf4%3D&reserved=0

Geelong 2 looks different because it has been restored to the original two-man open California combination style.

The ends were enclosed in the first half of the 1930s and they looked like the pic at:

https://tdu.to/i/12401 https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftdu.to%2Fi%2F12401&data=04%7C01%7C%7C12ad7225ceb94ee0b23f08d9ae3ca0c5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637732397733882908%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=P%2BBwXvXIHZqNbwBv4Aw4gDEOSxCc5rcAmlrpeRNVfGM%3D&reserved=0

Mal Rowe - who had his first ride on a Geelong tram on Sunday

On 23/11/2021 15:27, Bill Johnson wrote:

I don’t often post to TDU but when I do it appears within minutes --- but it’s been over a day since yesterday’s one and not sighted as yet.

I queried whether Geelong 2 was/is a Butterbox.

I recall the excitement when Bylands got the body of one. But Geelong 2 doesn’t look like one (or maybe I’ve just forgotten).

Bill