Re: Melbourne's grey trams

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

David McLoughlin wrote in message <38bf78d7@news.iprolink.co.nz>...
>David Martin wrote:
>>
>> A Yarra Trams spokesperson, defending their new colour scheme, has
described
>> the colour grey as "very Melbourne".
>
>Is the colourscheme anything like the Brisbane trams of latter years,
>especially the Phoenix cars with their blue bands?
>
>I ask, as I can't find a working URL to see for myself.
>
>Silver Bullets, the Brisbane trams were called, though silver was
>replaced with grey post-1959. They still looked good, though.
>
They were in Brisbane, that's why they looked good.


Barry Campbell

(You get like that after you've lived here long enough)