Re: Up against W2's 2
oracletttco
Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:36 PM
--Yes GK
You are right about that prochial attitude exsisting especially in
tramway operations, and not only in Australia.
Most operators reinvented the wheel for themselves, spending big
bucks to achieve almost the same results.
Mind you.... that has made it good in retrospect for us Gunzels of
this and future generations as we drool through old pictures and
manuscripts and proposed designs.
The introduction of American and English built cars in the early days
must have bought on loud mumblings from the tramcar builders of the
colony , who I would think, would have paraded down the main streets
of their respective boroughs with cardboard plackards with slogans
like "No Yanks Here", or "Ban the Poms" etc ( hey, what's new ??)
The Birney cars must have rewritten history.
I wonder how an early generation Lou De Greg. would have dealt with
them and their assembly.
No doubt their packing cases woud have been accidently offloaded from
the steamer on the wrong side and dropped directly into the bay.
Its interesting to note that when a car from "that place interstate,"
finally made it here, it has been held in great awe and respect and
has even been allowed to run in the Holy Swanston Mall. AND it is
still in town !!
( I wonder if I had better mention from the view of a knocked down
pedestrian, it would look very much like a W2 underneath !)
Just a wee note here, that I was able to have a drive of this car in
Bendigo by kind permission of Mr.Tim Borchers of the Bendigo Trust ,
This organisation did a magnificent job of restoration and
conversion, and I have to say it has been one of the highlights of my
life having been able to do this.
Yes, I think the Sydney cars would have been a sensation here in
Melbourne, and I would venture to say most of them would still be on
the road...............Oh yes, and I suppose with the dreaded
trackbrakes!!
WGB
- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Greg King" <tramway@a...> wrote:
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You are right about that prochial attitude exsisting especially in
tramway operations, and not only in Australia.
Most operators reinvented the wheel for themselves, spending big
bucks to achieve almost the same results.
Mind you.... that has made it good in retrospect for us Gunzels of
this and future generations as we drool through old pictures and
manuscripts and proposed designs.
The introduction of American and English built cars in the early days
must have bought on loud mumblings from the tramcar builders of the
colony , who I would think, would have paraded down the main streets
of their respective boroughs with cardboard plackards with slogans
like "No Yanks Here", or "Ban the Poms" etc ( hey, what's new ??)
The Birney cars must have rewritten history.
I wonder how an early generation Lou De Greg. would have dealt with
them and their assembly.
No doubt their packing cases woud have been accidently offloaded from
the steamer on the wrong side and dropped directly into the bay.
Its interesting to note that when a car from "that place interstate,"
finally made it here, it has been held in great awe and respect and
has even been allowed to run in the Holy Swanston Mall. AND it is
still in town !!
( I wonder if I had better mention from the view of a knocked down
pedestrian, it would look very much like a W2 underneath !)
Just a wee note here, that I was able to have a drive of this car in
Bendigo by kind permission of Mr.Tim Borchers of the Bendigo Trust ,
This organisation did a magnificent job of restoration and
conversion, and I have to say it has been one of the highlights of my
life having been able to do this.
Yes, I think the Sydney cars would have been a sensation here in
Melbourne, and I would venture to say most of them would still be on
the road...............Oh yes, and I suppose with the dreaded
trackbrakes!!
WGB
- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Greg King" <tramway@a...> wrote:
Ah, now see, there's the rub, "Sydney bogies" can't have any ofthat foreign
stuff here (heh, heh).
Gerg
Car shown is No 59
Dunedin City Corporation Tramways NZ
Built 1921/22
Meadowbank Manufacturing Co. Sydney
Double truck, Double saloon, drop centre.
Convertable centre section
Known as "Sydney Bogies"
Withdrawn 1953/56
Photo by John Herbert NZ
(Info: End of the Penny section..G.C.Stewart)
WGB
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