Re: The New and Improved W's

Personally, I think there was an ethos in the old M&MTB that new is better
and W-class trams are distasteful old relics which do not project the public
image they wanted. I think that is still the case with the successor
organisations. They are a lot more comfortable with trams which look modern
than they are with traditional trams.

They have certainly been in no hurry to get them back on the road.

Whether those sentiments are consciously or sub-consciously held, their
actions on W-class trams over the last 20 years speak far louder than any
humouring rhetoric to the contrary which they peddle to the public or the
media when they are criticised.

Bob Murphy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Bolton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] The New and Improved W's

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:47:19 +1000, Michael wrote:

At the end of the day, my opinionated guess is that it would have been
cheaper to rip out the automatic slack adjuster and reinstate the pit

men,

than to spend many hundreds of thousands per tram installing track

brakes.

Especially where the normally slow running City Circle W's are

concerned.

I was told by a friend, who does traction control maintenance, that
the at least *part* of the reason for going to automatic slack
adjusters, was that it was getting increasingly difficult to get
workers who were prepared to both learn and to stick with mundane,
dirty jobs like brake adjusting on W2s.

Cheers,

Bill


Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia




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