One sunny day at St Kilda - Part 4 - Back to the Beach
Roy Winslow
Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:25 AM
The
attached photo shows the hamsome F1 264 at the Beach terminus of the St Kilda
tramway. I use the term 'beach' loosely here, but I suppose it would be the
closest thing to Fiji Adelaidians have close to home...
This car was restored from a body only in the mid
1980's using Melbourne No.1 trucks ex-W2, K35JJ controllers (also ex W2) and
other bits and pieces from W2's, including the saloon longitudinal seating (see
the recent interior shot of the car by Herman). The funny thing is that this car
has double helical gearing and their show W2 (294) has good old fashioned spur
gears! The reason for this is the 294 was retired in 1977 having been spared the
gear change. I believe 1977 was also the last year that spur geared W2 ran in
service, although I may be wrong on this one.
Back to the F1, one of the AETM members told me a nice
story about this one. Apparently, this car was chosen by the flegling museum as
part of its wish list to the MTT in 1957. However, they changed their mind to
282 as they were advised by the workshops that 264 had been involved in an
accident. 264 also had its electrical gear changes at some stage from the normal
PC5 controllers to EE controllers, with the PC5's desitined for the aborted H1
project. So this car has now had three types of controller - PC5, EE and GE
K35JJ.
Roy
Winslow
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