It was certainly the ugliest tram in history. But those New York jobs
with their Donald Duck fenders must win the prize for the most absurd
looking!

I still maintain Adelaide had the most handsome of all trams, with the H
series.

Who agrees? Or do you have a different opinion and a favourite "most
handsome tram"?

Cheers

Graham

Brent Efford wrote:
>

> When I visited PETS in Perth a month ago I was gobsmacked to find the H-D

> car actually there - I had read of the machine but assumed that it and its

> kin had gone to the scrapyard decades ago. It is the ancestor of the

> low-floor and 70% LF LRVs which are the big attraction of light rail

> today.

> I hope that the world-wide light rail and heritage streetcar community can

> somehow assist in its restoration because of its significance as a missing

> link between the past and future of light rail transit. Its

> restoration will

> be a big job because of the lack of commonality to other cars of the

> era and

> its heavy steel riveted construction.

>

> The failure of the Brill company to follow through and develop the 1912

> Hedley-Doyle concept may have been as significant as the Brilliner

> fiasco in

> contributing to the long-term demise of the Brill company.

>

> Mind you - it is just about the ugliest streetcar I have ever seen -

> advanced concept and advanced aesthetics are not the same thing!

>

> Brent Efford

>

> On 5/12/08 8:41 PM, "Mal Rowe" brill21e@...

> mailto:brill21e%40optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>

> > Graham Lees wrote:

> >

> >> I just remembered I had this interior photo I took about six months

> ago.

> >> I am pretty sure it was #63 (my notes tell me it is). You can see why

> >> Bob says it is going to cost a lot - and that is just the guts.Then

> >> there is the cab, controls and exterior. Custom bogies and motors,

> too I

> >> expect, is it Bob?

> >

> > Thanks for the pic and the plan Graham.

> >

> > I guess it looks a mess, but to me it's a pretty good start on having an

> > operational instance of one of the most striking designs of the early

> > 20th C.

> >

> > Where do I send my donation?

> >

> > There a nice postcard of the NY version and some history on T&LRS site:

> >

> <http://www.tramwayinfo.com/Tramframe.htm?http://www.tramwayinfo.com/trampostc

> http://www.tramwayinfo.com/Tramframe.htm?http://www.tramwayinfo.com/trampostc

> > ards/Postc119.htm>

> > OR

> > http://tinyurl.com/6a4gul http://tinyurl.com/6a4gul

> >

> >

> > Mal Rowe in Hedley-Doyle deprived Melbourne

> >

> > ------------------------------------

> >

> > Yahoo! Groups Links

> >

> >

> >

>

>