[LINK] The Red Flag Act

[Richard Chirgwin]

Rachel -

You can still buy Red Rattlers to rework into homes. Just don't touch 
the asbestos in the ceiling...

I know some people who have a pair of them, down in the Southern 
Tablelands. They're side-by-side, with interconnecting passageways 
providing the bathroom (at one end) and kitchen (at the other). The 
result is a huge living area that didn't cost much at all - the 
transport was more expensive than the purchase.

RC

On 28/06/11 1:32 PM, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> Well, by popular demand, here is how the trams came to the Tram-otel, in Lightning Ridge.
> In any case, the story is anecdotal but more likely true than not!
>
> Back when the trams had been decomissioned some time in the 1960's, of course something
> had to be done with them.   Many were destroyed or scavenged but six lucky trams
> made a final long run into the Outback.
>
> There was a caravan park called the "Crocodile" which was because it had one as a tourist
> attraction.   The bloke that ran this caravan park had made a bet with someone that by the
> end of the year, trams would be running up and down Morilla street, which of course
> everyone thought hilarious.
>
> About 3 months later, indeed several large trucks were seen rolling up and down the
> street with trams on the back and so a bet was won and a legend born.
>
> These trams found their way to the park opposite the Crocodile and were refitted
> and placed under tin roofs to protect them.   Each tram inside is pretty much original
> condition except with the seats removed and bedroom furniture added.  Mine had
> the drivers compartment still with a console and "tiller" installed.
>
> I think the two park vendors do not talk to each other anymore ;)
>
> The one I was in was Coogee Beach and inside it was tinder dry.  Most of
> the trams have termite damage to one degree or another, but were still livable
> if extremely hot in summer.  They really are a bit of history and are still there
> AFAIK.
>
> Before I left up there,  a bloke was doing a good trade in delivering old shipping
> containers and the old City Rail Red Rattler train carriages as "alternative" accomodation...
>
>
> rachel
>
> --
> rachel polanskis
> <r.polanskis at uws.edu.au>
> <grove at zeta.org.au>
>
> On 28/06/2011, at 8:33, Marghanita da Cruz<marghanita at ramin.com.au>  wrote:
>
>> Rachel Polanskis wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Suffice to say, I have seen the Sydney trams and they are wonderful.
>>> How they got where they did is a story for another time, unless some really wants to know and I will tell it!
>> <snip>
>> Hi Rachel,
>>
>> This would be a good time to tell stories of the Sydney Trams.
>>
>> See sad photos of Sydney's Trams at the Rozelle Tram Depot.
>> <http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/GLE/GLE39.htm>
>>
>> Their fate, is a current issue.
>> Harold Park and the former Rozelle Tram Depot site
>> <http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/development/UrbanRenewalProjects/HaroldPark/Default.asp>
>>
>> My contribution to digging up the history of the Sydney Trams was to
>> discover, thanks to NLA's newspapers online, who built the network and who
>> it built.
>>
>> A railway nipper, from Wagga Wagga, comes to Sydney, via WA, and gets a job
>> with  tram construction contractors. He marries the bosses daughter, goes
>> on, to become Mayor of Annandale circa 1895, Lord Mayor of Sydney, MLC and
>> built the Company Allen Taylor and Co.. Taylor Square, Sydney is named
>> after this guy...
>> <http://www.ramin.com.au/annandale/story-74b-trafalgar-street.shtml#taylor>
>>
>> Act No 32 1910 An Act to sanction the construction of an Electric Tramway
>> from Darley-rad, Randwick to Little Coogee: and for other purposes [28th
>> December 1910}
>> <http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/sessionalview/sessional/act/1910-32.pdf>
>>
>>> Sir Allen Arthur TAYLOR (1864 - 1940)
>>> Member of the NSW Legislative Council    23 Jul 1912    22 Apr 1934    21yr(s) 9mth(s)        Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 25 April 1912
>>> Member of the NSW Legislative Council    23 Apr 1934    30 Sep 1940    6yr(s) 5mth(s) 8day(s)        A Member of the indirectly elected Council 1934 - 1978. Date of Election 5 December 1933 and 1 November 1939. A Member before reconstitution.
>> <http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/ec78138918334ce3ca256ea200077f5d/c2db00b972c38d83ca256e7b0009f670?OpenDocument>
>>
>> Marghanita
>> -- 
>> Marghanita da Cruz
>> http://ramin.com.au
>> Tel: 0414-869202
>>
>>
>>
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