Re: Official launch in Bendigo of restored Sydney tram R 1808

["Paul Nicholson" <pn1@rocketmail.com>]

Not that I am aware of.
His contribution to Melbourne trams in the 1960s should be recognised.
However, there are some people who believe it was an earlier Chairman of the
MMTB, H H Bell, who "saved" Melbourne from the anti-tram epidemic that
covered the English-speaking world in the 1950s.
Paul N
"Ian Jelf" <ian@bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <3a4d599f@news.iprolink.co.nz>, David McLoughlin <davemcl@NO*
> **damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> writes
> >
> >> But, apparently, Sir Henry Bolte, would have nothing of it.
> >
> >Bolte was around even then? Good lord. He hated trams, despised them. At
> >least he didn't have the power to have them axed, he just starved the
> >independent tramways board of capital.
> >
> >It sickened me when the new bridge over the Docklands was named after
> >him.
> Does S8ir Robert Risson have anything named in *his* honour?
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