New Plymouth NZ
WALTER Bennett
Saturday, February 23, 2002 10:09 PM
I was bought up in New Plymouth with its 10 trams,
4 trolley buses and about 20 infernal combustion buses.
TB 4 shown here was the first to be withdrawn
.
It went firstly to the Fitzroy Motor Camp for
some years , until aquired by the Taranaki Aviation and Transport
Museum who intended to restore it.
However that was not to be and it ultimately rotted
away on a nearby farm.
Some parts were retrieved and used in the
reconstruction of NP 2 in Foxton by Wayne Little. (This TB had been dieselised
and converted to a movan by his father, Ian Little of Foxton Trolley bus Museum
fame many years before.)
Bus was built by NEW PLYMOUTH TRAMWAYS 1 - 4 on
Crossley TSD chassis to Wellington design 1- 10.
WGB
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