Re: Trams are Cars?

["David Lindstrom" <D_Lindstrom@bigpond.com>]

I always thought the signs "cars stop here" and "hail cars here" were short
for "tramcars stop here" etc.
David Lindstrom

Mike Alexander <malex@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
37b49729@news.alphalink.com.au">news:37b49729@news.alphalink.com.au...
> > When I was a kid growing up in Melbourne, the signs at tram stops read
> > "hail cars here" for request stops and "cars stop here" for compulsory
> > stops. They were changed to "tram stop" about the time the Zs began
> > entering service in the mid-1970s. The original "tram stop" signs even
> > had a stylised Z on them.
>
>
> In fact, there is still one of each of those types of signs (Hail Cars
Here
> & the stylised Z type) up alongside public tram track in Melbourne (i.e.
not
> in a Museum).
>
> Anyone else know where they are?
>
> If anyone's interested I'll take some photos & put them up on my web page
> (assuming they haven't been removed in the last month or so).
>
>
> Also, for a while, the green & yellow tram stop signs which pre-dated the
> current ones had the wording "Trams stop here" and "Hail trams here". This
> was only 5 years ago, or so. I always figured they were designed by a
gunzel
> in the department.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Alexander
> (malex@bigfoot.com)
>
>