Re: Saviour of Melbourne's trams [was Re: Official launch in Bendigo of restored Sydney tram R 1808

["Graeme Cleak" <gcleak@optusnet.com.au>]

I believe the Terminal Platform at Elizabeth Street Terminus is named after
Sir Robert Risson, and has a plaque or similar, attached.

--
Graeme Cleak

David McLoughlin <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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> David McLoughlin wrote:
>
> >  Sir Robert Risson was chairman or deputy chairman of the MMTB from
> > 1949 until 1970.
>
> On reconsulting my records and books, I can affirm that Major General
> Sir Robert Risson was *chairman* of the MMTB from 1949 to 1970.
> Twenty-one years in which he fought off the anti-tram tide and kept the
> huge Melbourne system going in the face of odds that destroyed scores of
> tramway systems elsewhere.
>
> > Melbourne's tramway system is the greatest possible monument to Sir
> > Robert Risson.
>
> He is without doubt the man who saved Melbourne's great tramway system,
> one of the world's greatest tramway systems and by far the biggest
> tramway in any English-speaking country (and in non-English speaking
> ones, only Sankt Petersburg and Wien are bigger, and Milano is fourth in
> size behind Melbourne).
>
> Please go back up the thread if the above confuses you.
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand