Re: Red Rattlers be damned!

[Roy Marshall <marsh@zip.com.au>]

Did you ever ride in any of the old wooden Bradfield cars when you lived
in Sydney? Maybe not or you would have seen the similarity to Taits in
seeing the wooden panels move in different directions..

Cheers Roy

Roger Lloyd wrote:
> 
> As an expat NSW railfan living in Victoria for the past 28 years, I object
> to the NSW press and some misguided railfans calling the old single decker
> electric cars "red rattlers". This is a term unfortunately stolen from
> Victoria where it was used (quite correctly) to describe the Tait cars on
> the Melbourne suburban system - believe me, they did rattle and shake! They
> had two sliding doors for each compartment (one each side) and loose fitting
> windows and, like the old P class Sydney trams, really required some form of
> diagonal bracing to stiffen them up. When they started to move, the
> underframe moved first and the roof followed, if you get what I mean. By
> comparison, the Sydney Leeds type cars were steel bodied and gave a firm and
> solid ride and DID NOT RATTLE!!! With their high seat backs they were more
> comfortable than Tangaras and newer stock.
> Roger Lloyd