Re: Trolley wheels/carbon skids on Melb trams

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)]

Stuart Turnbull <stuartt@netspace.net.au> wrote in aus.rail:


>I think the conversion from trolley wheels to carbon skids happened very 
>quickly in the late 1950s, about 1957-58.
>
When I was about 10 years old, we lived above a Milk Bar in Waverley
Road, East Malvern. A favourite pastime was watching the trams go past
on a Saturday morning from a bedroom window that fronted the road. It
was around 1961-1962 when I noticed the change from trolley wheels to
carbon skids, the height of the window made this observation very
easy. It did not take very long for the change to occur - probably no
more than six months. It was also around this time that the Sunday 3D
tram service was "busified".

Les Brown