Re: RC Drummond, Traffic Manager

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

From: Brent Efford

To: [email protected]

Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:48 PM

Subject: RE: [TramsDownUnder] RC Drummond, Traffic Manager

Hey, this is great - really brings the human side to life.

In this regard, I had the following exchange with Peter Cook. To my
embarassment, I thought it had gone from Peter to the whole group, not just
me. Did anyone else have trouble with an email originating from me? I have
quite a lot of interesting stuff re trolleybuses, Hong Kong etc, but I won't
send it if I am not 'clean'.

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This is weird. I did not attach anything to that message. Every message I
send or receive is scanned by Norton Antivirus 2002, last updated 2 days
ago. I send about 10 emails a day and have received no other complaints -
not even from Bob Murphy, who responded to the same message (thanks, Bob.
Fascinating to get a glimpse of some of the political and human dimensions
which tramfans generally ignore.)

I would be interested to know if this message causes any problems (my ISP
has been having server faults, an unlikely explanation). It will probably be
my last, unless I am satisfied that the problem is fixed or never existed,
and I will downgrade from 'contributor' to 'lurker'.

Brent Efford
TechMedia Services
Co-ordinator, Transport 2000+ NZ
PO Box 2626, Wellington 6015
New Zealand
[email protected]
Ph (04) 801 9331, Fx (04) 801 9344
Mob 025 887 387
www.techmedia.co.nz


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Cook [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 7 March 2002 11:17 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Wellington trolleybus news


At 11:11 PM 7/03/2002 +1300, you wrote:
>[snip]

[Attachment: winmail.dat]

I strongly suggest you run a virus scan on your PC, and switch to a
non-Microsoft E-mail client such as Eudora or possibly Mozilla.  It is
commonly known that Viruses, such as the one you posted to the list, spread
far quicker and easier over Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express.


Regards,
PC

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Cheers,

Brent Efford
TechMedia Services
Co-ordinator, Transport 2000+ NZ
PO Box 2626, Wellington 6015
New Zealand
[email protected]
Ph (04) 801 9331, Fx (04) 801 9344
Mob 025 887 387
www.techmedia.co.nz


-----Original Message-----
From: pn1.rm [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 8 March 2002 4:46 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] RC Drummond, Traffic Manager


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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