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Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?

Subject: Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
From: "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:06:03 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
Organization: Another Optus Customer
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"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
391813A2.61B4A4F6@ozemail.com.au">news:391813A2.61B4A4F6@ozemail.com.au...
> Jonathan Lau wrote:
>
> > If I recall, the Silver City Comet train (Parkes to Broken Hill) was
claimed to be the first train in
> > the British Empire to be air conditioned and that was in the 1930's!
>
> It was 1939, but ISTR that there was one train in Victoria that just beat
it.  Was it the SOP?

I thought the Comet was 1936, beating the SOP by a year.

Dave

References:
- [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: "David Martin" <d_martin@mountains.net.au>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: eikkert@my-deja.com
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: "Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: "Jonathan Boles" <mousewithglasses@mail.com>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: "Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: "Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: Jonathan Lau <jonlau@ozemail.com.au>
- Re: [NSW] AC traction motors for Tangara's?
  - From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>

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