Re: (Melb) Siemens New Trams

["Graeme Nitz" <prr@unite.com.au>]

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David Bromage <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
news:aXjW4.518$_Q6.397650@news0.optus.net.au...
> Evad Rehtona (davemclAXETHIS@iprolink.co.nz) wrote:
> > James C wrote:
>
> > > Sounds weird to me. Order local parts and send them to Vienna for
assembly
> > > and send them back again for service, what a waste of time!!why not
just
> > > build them in Preston/Newport workshop/Somerston/Bendigo/Ballarat and
order
> > > parts from Vienna??
>
> > It certainly sounds bizarre.  How are the completed trams to be
> > transported to Melbourne?
>
> > Hiroshima in Japan is taking delivery of a Combino fleet, and believe it
> > or not, they are being flown there from Europe, fully assembled, in a
> > huge Russian transport aircraft. One at a time I hasten to add.
>
> Not without precedent. ABB/Adtranz in Melbourne built electric locos for
> the Indian Railways and flew them two at a time in An-124s.
>
> Cheers
> David

Actually ABB/Adtranz only built the bodies. They were fitted out in
Switzerland then shipped to India (by ship?).

Graeme Nitz