Re: New Plymouth NZ

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Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:35 AM

That's so oogly, I actually like it. Shame it's gone. Why was it so short, Graeme? Did NZ have English-type length restrictions? How wide was it?

Bob Murphy

----- Original Message -----

From: WALTER Bennett

To: TramsDownunder

Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 9:09 AM

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] New Plymouth NZ

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TB 4 shown here was the first to be withdrawn .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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