Re: GEs for Victoria?

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

Not quite - in the scale of our market, had one more major order gone to
Goninan leaving Clyde without work, I suspect that EDI would've closed it
down. After that, it's Model T locos - you can have anything you want so
long as it's GE/Goninan or imported. I understand the economy of scale
argument - 2 batches of 60 would've been quite close to one of 80 in this
aspect of economies.

DW

Krel wrote in message <36e20b29.21216655@news.netconnect.com.au>...
>On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 18:03:44 +0800, "David & Jan Winter" <
>>
>>GE certainly have given EMD cause for concern in the North American
market.
>>I'm not sure Goninan have had quite the same effect on Clyde - more the
>>tendering system has the impact of creating winners and destroying losers
>>with the net effect that next order, there'll be no competition - and the
>>issuer of tenders loses. NR should've supported Aussie industry (as should
>>all buyer/leasers) with a long term 50-50% build split. That's the true
>>win:win outcome, but government silliness has precluded it.
>
>NR made a commercial decision to duy GEs. Why would they split an
>order and create two sets of everything - maintainence contracts,
>spares, operating specifications, etc? Whether we like GEs or not
>splitting the order would have begun to recreate the old railway
>problem of government interference and trying to appease every
>interest group and forgetting about what is best for the railway.
>
>Cheers
>
>Krel
>
>
>Just another eccentric crank.