Re: Perth/Adelaide Trolleybuses

["David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>]

Wolfgang Auer wrote in message <37c7b2dd.19324557@news.tuwien.ac.at>...
>Dear Dave, Dear Group,
>
>Dave McLoughlin wrote:
>
>>Can anybody tell me the opening and closing dates of the Perth
>>and Adelaide trolleybus systems?
>
>Well, the Adelaide dates already have been provided by David
>Bennetts, much more detailed than I could have done.
>
>However, Perth's trolleybus system was opened in 1933 and closed
>in 1969, according to Nils Carl Aspenberg: Verdens Sporveier,
>Trolleybusser og Undergrunnsbaner. No _really_ exact dates are
>given there anyway...
>
>Best regards from Wien (Vienna, Austria), Wolfgang
>--
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Wolfgang

Your years are right according to "Buses and Trams of Australia's Government
and Municipal Operators"

Perth commenced trolleybus operation on 1 October 1933 from east Perth to
Leederville,and closure occurred on 29 August 1969.

Regards

David Bennetts
Canberra