Re: The Lizard, Italian style

--- In [email protected], Bill Bolton <billbolton@c...>
wrote:

The latest issue of "Trolley Wire" has an interesting article on
construction of "The Lizard"... the road trailer used by NSW

Tramways

to transfer trams between the main Sydney system and some of the
isolated sections of the network. The article covered the

engineering

behind the construction of The Lizard in the UK, including a photo

of

it being tested by a Liverpool tramways double deck car being

driven

onto it.

The Lizard was quite an impressive vehicle but it pales into
insignificance compared to what I found on an Italian tram web

sight

today.....

http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/it/trams/Milano/7000-Eurotram/ATM-

Milano-7017.jpgsite

The caption read... "Eurotram for the city of Milan at the Sempione
park". Photo and scan by Alessio Pedretti

Cheers,

Bill


Bill Bolton
Sydney, Australia

Bill
I understand the firm of Pittmans used a trailer to transfer trams
when the lizard was being rebuilt with pneumatic tyres in 1951.
I remember seing the lizard when i was very young in Sept 1954,
in College St Sydney near Park St late one night.My grandfather
was amazed to see a tram on a trailer ,so he pointed it out to me.
Jeff




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