I only knew IAN by name I think I have some of his books R I P mate
On Sun, 5 May 2024, 3:10 pm Andrew Cook, d3619@...> wrote:
> Sad news Paul—his publications were legendary.
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> Andrew Cook.
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> *Subject:* [TramsDownUnder] Ian G Cooper (1941-2024)
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> Whilst overseas last week, I was saddened to hear of the death of Ian
> Cooper of Hobart – a great mate of mine since 1967 and a highly respect
> tram historian. He was 83.
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> Ian died after a long illness. He was born and raised in Hobart and was
> trained as a statistician. Ian enjoyed a long career in public
> administration and later in the bus industry. Like many of his era, he
> spent some time early in his career working in the United Kingdom. In the
> late 1960s he moved from Hobart to Canberra where he spent many years in
> senior roles in the planning area of the ACTION bus service. He later moved
> on to private bus management.
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> Ian was instrumental in the saving of Hobart tram 141 and through the
> years wrote several titles on trams and trolleybuses in Tasmania. He was
> also a regular contributor to various trams and general transport journals
> and publications.
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> Ian married late in life and after retirement moved back to his hometown
> Hobart where he had planned to research further areas of local transport
> history but his efforts were cut short by the onset of a debilitating
> illness. In his married life, Ian was known as Tim but almost everyone in
> the transport fraternity continued to know him as Ian or sometimes among
> his closer buddies by his middle name, Gollan.
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> I first met Ian while exploring the Tasmanian trolleybus systems in 1967.
> He was groomsman at my wedding in 1975 and we remained close friends
> through the following decades. We spent a day on the trams in Melbourne in
> 2016 and it was clear his health wasn’t the best. Ian spent his last years
> in an aged care facility on Hobart’s eastern shore. I visited him there in
> 2021. Ian was very sick and couldn’t recognise me. Sadly, I knew that would
> be the last time our paths would cross.
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> Paul Nicholson
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