Mick, Tullberg came up through the ranks, starting as a tram conductor.
He was a good age when he retired and died not too long after. I find it
hard to believe after retirement he worked as a sparky after a lifetime of
being traffic and admin on the trams.
Andrew.
On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 20:51, Mick Duncan kitbuny@...> wrote:
> 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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