Re: Stored trams at Newport

Crookesp (crookesp@aol.com)
10 Feb 1998 22:56:42 GMT

In article <34DF9C55.BC6FE93A@fastlink.com.au>, Bob <gioia@fastlink.com.au>
writes:

> The only reason that the present situation exists is that the National Trust
>is insisting that every tram be kept. This apparently goes beck to an
>election
>promis made to them some years ago. They have held the MET to this.

Strange that the National Trust, presumably a private non-statutory body,
can do this. How many other election promises are so enforced?

>The >situation is so ridiculas because COTMA have identified 7 cars that are
>wanted >by museums in Australia however the Trust refuse to even allow
>these cars to be sold off.

What exactly would happen if the MET told the Natiuonal Trust to insert
a trolley pole the long way up?

>It would appear that the main stirrer in the Trust is a tram GUNZEL so I think
>you may begin to understand what is going on.

What is a GUNZEL?

*Philip*

(from Berlin, where they dispose of life-expired trams)