RC Drummond, Traffic Manager
pn1.rm
Friday, March 8, 2002 3:46 AM
Someone suggested as a result of reading Bob Murphy's posting that RC
Drummond was probably better known than Sir Robert Risson because the
Traffic Manager's name was attached to most notices in the trams and
buses.
The style of notice remained unchanged for decades. There is a PMTT
traffic notice in the Norm Maddocks collection at Malvern dating from
the first world war that is in the style style as the MMTB of the
1970s.
Apparently Bob Drummond was a footballer and played for Essendon at
one time.
I am always interested to learn about the "other" side of MMTB
personalities. Was he a God fearing "wowser" type or perhaps a
womaniser or boozer? He may have been a church elder or he may have
had a mistress...or both; any clues?
Fascinating stuff.
I gather he died several years ago.
Where would the old men of the Tramways Board have
drunk//networked/socialised in the six o'clock swill days. Surely it
wouldn't have been with the "men" at the "local"?
Paul in Melbourne
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Drummond was probably better known than Sir Robert Risson because the
Traffic Manager's name was attached to most notices in the trams and
buses.
The style of notice remained unchanged for decades. There is a PMTT
traffic notice in the Norm Maddocks collection at Malvern dating from
the first world war that is in the style style as the MMTB of the
1970s.
Apparently Bob Drummond was a footballer and played for Essendon at
one time.
I am always interested to learn about the "other" side of MMTB
personalities. Was he a God fearing "wowser" type or perhaps a
womaniser or boozer? He may have been a church elder or he may have
had a mistress...or both; any clues?
Fascinating stuff.
I gather he died several years ago.
Where would the old men of the Tramways Board have
drunk//networked/socialised in the six o'clock swill days. Surely it
wouldn't have been with the "men" at the "local"?
Paul in Melbourne
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