Re: Question on W2s
  jebounds2003

--- InTramsDownUnder@..., Mal Rowe <brill21e@o...>
wrote:
>

> Mal Rowe wrote:

>

> Hi again Ken,

> Here is another pic This time a W.

> See attached or http://tdu.to/380_Hawthorn-May03.jpg

>

> Must get a pic of a W2 smoker section some time!!!

>

> The difference between the W and the W2 was that in the W2 the

seats
> were arranged back to back and the doorways changed from three

equal
> width doorways to two wide doorways near the saloons and one

narrow
> doorway in the centre.

>

>

> I'm pretty sure that the "Passengers Must Not Obstruct Car

Entrances"
> signs are NOT original, but date from the period when the trams

were
> used in traffic post restoration.

>

> --

> Mal Rowe in Melbourne

Mal,
I can remember the notices on some of the stored W2s in Old
Thornbury Depot in 1966.
A.F.A.I.K.,650 was the last car I saw carrying those notices.That
was in late 1960.
Jeff
>