Re: Aussie TB's

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Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:48 AM

They look vaguely eastern European, Mal.

A lot of early trolley buses had rough riding suspension including the St Louis and Marmon Herringtons I drove in San Francisco. It wasn't until the adoption of air-suspension that the problem disappeared.

I well remember the suspensions on the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board's AEC Regal Mk III half-cab diesels. They had thin "plates" to give more progressive damping than a few thick plates would have done. The original two man versions had 25 plates of leaves on the rear, and the bob-tail versions had 22 plate springs. I had to change half a dozen sets. Not fun. As the spring packs got older and settled the ride got rougher and rougher. The passengers and many of the M&MTB people called them "bone shakers".

Bob Murphy

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From: Mal Rowe

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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 1:13 PM

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Aussie TB's

Kiwis didn't have a monolpoly trolleybuses. Here are a couple of the Brisbane variety - shots taken in October 1968, a few short weeks before the wreckers closed trolley buses and trams. At the risk of offending members of the group I must say that they rode just slightly better than an iron wheeled garbage cart! The Brisbane trams were a much more comfortable proposition. Mal http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - Vote for your nominees in our online Oscars pool.

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