Gday Andrew,Peter,Yuri All
Fred Tullberg was the Depot Master,Boss,at Malvern when I was there 70-74
and he was the best Boss I ever worked for
I was sentenced to 3 months at Malvern by Lindsay East,the discipline officer
for being a naughty boy,in the boards opinion,I had been at Camberwell for 4 yrs
where we couldnt change from A to B shift or VV
I discovered that Malvern allowed shift changes,provided,you got 10 hrs off
between shifts so I stayed at Malvern as I was a bugger,unmarried then, for getting
up for Earlys so I swapped for Middles and Lates,I gave away Sundays to entice
drivers to swap
All went well till the early 70s when Glenhuntly got wind of the Malvern change
arrangements and changing from A to B shift or VV was stopped
I then had to do Earlys,and work Sundays,the rot set in and I sometimes slept in
Fred Tullberg would ring up and ask if I was coming to work and offer 8AM spare
which I gladly accepted,a drop out or being late wasent recorded on my record,
shift changed by managment
He also got another Driver ,usually from the dreaded Glenhuntly to give me the
occasional Sat off
In those days,we worked 6 days a week,inc a DOC due to staff shortages
Thanks ,Tassy Horton,the enlightened Union Rep
I didnt know about Freds card playing for big stakes,but card playing certainly
went on
I jumped before I was pushed as I felt bad trading on Freds good nature,covering
my sleeping in,resigning in May 1974
Yuri,Fred Tullberg being a sparky after retirement is a surprise as AFAIK Depot Masters came up through Traffic,not through Workshops or Running Sheds,but I
suppose anything was poss
Cheers, Mick 2861
On 14/05/2022 11:06 pm, Peter Bruce wrote:
> Apparently the same was true at South Melbourne, wives turning up on payday back in the '50s. Card games in the messroom for peanuts, red aces was the game.
>
>
> On Sat, 14 May 2022, 22:29 Andrew C, andrewhighriser@...> wrote:
>
> Peter, so you didn't have a card playing and gambling depot
> manager like Fred Tullberg at Malvern Depot? He and a few male
> Malvern staff members used to catch the train to Warrnambool for
> the annual horse racing cup meeting.
>
> Gambling on cards did stop at Malvern when wives started to call
> Tullberg complaining about their husband's losses and them not
> bringing home the bacon. Times were a'changin'.
>
> Andrew.
>
> On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 13:51, Peter Bruce p1.bruce@...> wrote:
>
> Yuri and all there is a bit of a story about that Dorcas St
> shelter. Back when South Melbourne/Hanna St was an all night
> depot there was a problem with trammies getting into big card
> games in the mess room to the point where some were losing big
> time. The Tramways Board then kicked the card players out of
> the mess whereupon they decamped up the shed and then having
> been moved on off M&MTB premises altogether they scooped up
> seat cushions and moved to the Dorcas St. shelter. Dunno what
> happened after that, except that there was always a sign up in
> the messroom. "Gambling on the Board's Premises is strictly
> prohibited". The card games continued but only for peanuts and
> when the all night trams finished up in I think the late '50s
> South Melbourne was no longer a 24 hour depot. The shed was
> staffed 24 hours though, I think because R10 the breakdown
> truck was based there.
>
> Regards to all TDUs,
>
> Peter Bruce.
>
> On Thu, 12 May 2022 at 19:06, Yuri Sos trams4me@...> wrote:
>
> Continuing on from previous Park Street post (have had to
> pull multiple shifts at work due to staff coming down with
> covid hence delay in following up posts).
>
> The current "Stop 20: Park Street". Z3.158 outbound as
> B2.2006 inbound.
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/158_2006_stop20_stKroad_a7r3_19030.jpg
> (2,400 x 1500 2.46MB)
>
> Having completed my coverage of the Park Street stop
> pre-upgrade, I walked back to my car. The sun was hidden
> behind clouds but a weird yellow light lit up the scene
> which made the autumn foliage just SO much golder (is that
> a word?). Here's an inbound Z3.172 on route 16 in St
> Kilda Road approaching Dorcas Street with a former tram
> stop waiting room on the right:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/172_dorcas_stKroad_a7r3_19079.jpg
> (2,400 x 1500 2.87MB)
>
> Yuri.
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