Re: 180 off track

IS Edit
Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:49 AM

Very nice. Sounds like someone was using their head.

And what splendid English!

I'll keep that lovely explanation.

Thanks, Mal.

Bob Murphy

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

From: Mal Rowe

To: [email protected]

Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:36 PM

Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] 180 off track

--- IS Edit <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep. Looks interesting. > > Was it a good truck, generally? Long wheelbase trucks generally rode better at speed. Single truck cars with normal short wheelbase trucks tended to pitch fore and aft at speed. (Good fun when riding Ballarat and Bendigo cars late at night in the old SEC days!) I've attached technical info for the mechanical engineers amongst us. Source is the 1917 edition of Dover's "Electric Traction" from Victoria's State Library. (Probably still there somewhere - but I copied this in the mid '60's) Mal http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - Vote for your nominees in our online Oscars pool.

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