Michael,

43s never had a clerestory roof. It was converted from D class 123, which was built as a sample car by Hudson / Clyde and based on the design of Brisbane trams of the period (1898). The following 24 cars of the class had clerestory roofs. Weedburner 144s was built on the bogie from an O class car and was used with the K scrubber cars as well as the D scrubbers.

Sydney was planning to electrify its tramway system in 1898 and we tried various designs - C, D, G and F before settling on the crossbench type which could seat more passengers.

Cheers,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Lewis
To: Tramsdownunder
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 12:26 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] This tram used to pull the grass burner

138s ex K class , later Melbourne 10A ? Now ...

Its "twin" was 139s => Melbourne 11A

used to pull the grass burning cart around the Moore Park
- Sports Ground - Cricket Ground - Showground - Anzac Pde
environs - (and probably other) reserved tracks while I
was at school at Sydney High, 1956-1960. Used to watch it
in operation during the day.

This picture was taken at Randwick Workshops, with a line of
other service trams (all ex D's), including 43s which had its
clerestory roof removed at some stage in its life.

I think the grass burner is at the STM.

I remember 43s regularly operating on the Waverley lines.
I wonder when/why it lost its clerestory roof?

Photos Barry Lewis, processed Michael Lewis - taken I think
in 1958.

http://tdu.to/Cs_Ds_Ks_RandWork_1958A.jpg

http://tdu.to/D43s_RandWork_1958.jpg

Michael

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