Re: Windsplitters. and W cars.
demondriver44
Monday, September 24, 2001 6:02 AM
Greg,thanks for the confirmation re FM cars,also apologies for delay
in replying,you are a driver at Southbank?I was on the job at South
Melbourne 1966 to 1977,actually last 9 or 10 months at
Camberwell,were you there at all in those days? I attended and helped
John Stewart organise re-union in 1999.Re the W class cars,I suppose
if that was all we had people would ride them and trammies for the
most part would run them on time,the great thing about them was that
they not a generic tramcar,they were part of a continous developement
of trams for Melbourne,I can't help wondering what might have
happened had that process continued.I am a cab driver these days and
from my observation of traffic I think it would be as possible,given
a good connie,to run a W, even a W2 to time as it would be one of the
later cars,I am assuming an unmodified W.Am I right? or am I
dreamin'? I have never driven a Z or later car so maybe I am ignorant
of what is possible today.Very interested to hear from you Greg or
anyone else who wants to put in their 2/- worth.Regards to all,Peter
Bruce.--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Greg King" <tramway@a...> wrote:
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in replying,you are a driver at Southbank?I was on the job at South
Melbourne 1966 to 1977,actually last 9 or 10 months at
Camberwell,were you there at all in those days? I attended and helped
John Stewart organise re-union in 1999.Re the W class cars,I suppose
if that was all we had people would ride them and trammies for the
most part would run them on time,the great thing about them was that
they not a generic tramcar,they were part of a continous developement
of trams for Melbourne,I can't help wondering what might have
happened had that process continued.I am a cab driver these days and
from my observation of traffic I think it would be as possible,given
a good connie,to run a W, even a W2 to time as it would be one of the
later cars,I am assuming an unmodified W.Am I right? or am I
dreamin'? I have never driven a Z or later car so maybe I am ignorant
of what is possible today.Very interested to hear from you Greg or
anyone else who wants to put in their 2/- worth.Regards to all,Peter
Bruce.--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Greg King" <tramway@a...> wrote:
Your memories are correct and the FM's were much longer.where
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: <demondriver44@y...>
To: <TramsDownUnder@y...>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:20 PM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Windsplitters.My memories o Brisbane tell me that there were certain curves
cars,maybecars were not permitted to pass,am I right?.Is this why cars had
tapered ends?Not droppies or dreadnoughts,only the later
No.15.Itthe older cars were shorter,I havn't got a copy o "Destination
Valley" to check this.I think traction wise the modern cars were
equivalent to Melbournes SW6 cars,also the trucks like Melb.
operativewas a nice system,smaller than Melb. but just as busy,v.co-
greattrammies as well.Clem Jones,Mayor o Brisbane,will always be
remembered and never pardoned or his destruction o the tramway
system.Regards to all,Peter Bruce.P.S.I will contribute to the
gotW class debate in next post,perhaps someone can correct me i I've
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/Brisbane stu arse about.[my computer won't reproduce the letter
between e and g,except when I don't want it to,why is this so?]
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