Re: ugly???

In a message dated 3 Sept 2001 @ 0349 GMT, "roy winslow"
<[email protected]> wrote:

I hereby nominate the following WA tram as one for the 'only a mother could
love' category of the Trams Awards 2001.

The photo is a scan of the back cover of the PETS publication 'Getting There',
with the original photo either taken by Arthur Perry or Hugh Ballment, as all
the colour photos in the book are from these two gents' collections.

The tram is unique, but not all that pretty...

Built in 1913, retired in c.1952 it lasted some 20 years longer than most of
its companion stepless cars. The view portrayed was in the car sidings beside
the WACA ground in East Perth in 1952. The tram had been modified in the late
1940's, including the fitting of the centrally-mounted destination box,
removal
of the external motorman's door and replacement with an internal door cut into
the bulkhead (forcing the motorman to climb over an adjoining passenger seat!)

Roy

Thanks, Roy. All I can say is "Ewwww!" LOL!

Similar cars ran in Santa Barbara, Fresno, Stockton and some other
California cities. These Hedley-Doyle "Stepless Wonders" had virtually
identical fronts and were known as the first "Low-Floor" cars built. They
were created out of need to keep pace with ladies' fashions of the era,
specifically the "hobble skirt". Like most fads, this one faded quickly and
the traction companies were stuck with ungainly pieces of equipment which
they couldn't convert to 1-man cars because of the center entrances. In
Australia, of course, this was not a problem.

Milantram


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