Re: U-Boat trailers to Weston/RVRM

["David & Jan Winter" <winterd@nospam-icenet.com.au>]

It's interesting that in the AETA Dornan & Henderson book "The Electric
Railways of NSW" ISBN 0 909459 02 9 details are given of delays in building
the U-boats due to failure to supply by the British (they were still doing
it in 1969 when Perth had to go Japanese because Leyland couldn't deliver
Panthers - no wonder the UK nose dived!). So, all credit to the Australian
contractor ComEng.

But why, Robert Harris, are you so pleased the 4GT contract went to Clyde?
What are they doing that's as revolutionary as the Tulloch trailers were in
'64? Presumably, you're comparing to Goninan's? I live in the quarantined
west, and have only seen a Tangara at a distance, likewise a 4DD: so from
the point of view of those who work in/on them and ride in them, what's the
story: good, bad, indifferent? (PS Goninan's DMUs for Perth weren't
particularly impressive, gutsless I'd call them, but was that Goninan's
fault?)

DW