Re: Trolley wheels/carbon skids on Melb trams

[Stuart Turnbull <stuartt@netspace.net.au>]

Johann Fan wrote:
> 
> David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au> wrote in message
> 379FE412.1B0913E@omni.com.au">news:379FE412.1B0913E@omni.com.au..
> > When did conversion of trolley wheels to carbon skids commence?
> > Which trams were the first to be delivered with carbon skids?
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
> 
> And are there any trolley pole trams still running? (W's excepted)In short, no. Swanston's scrubber car 10W is a pole car but all the Z1, 
Z2, Z3 trams at Glen Huntly and Malvern have been converted to panto 
operation. So, other than Ws, the entire fleet is panto equipped. 

I think the conversion from trolley wheels to carbon skids happened very 
quickly in the late 1950s, about 1957-58.

Cheers


Stuart