| Name | Comments |
D.F.PEARSON
 driver7385@yahoo.co.uk | 16-03-2008 - 16:24
My Mother used to tell me an anecdote about her father driving a steam tram through a funeral procession. He lived in Church Lane so must have been based at your depot. |
Richard Gilbert
acre@alphalink.com.au
 http://www.btm.org.au | 06-02-2008 - 01:27
Very interesting history. I particularly liked reading about the history of the building and its redvelopment. If you would like to look at our Ballarat Tramway Website, Australia, www.btm.org.au We had to build a new depot further along the tramline, from the original, on the retained portion of the former Ballarat tram system.
I appreciate the work you are doing having done it myself. |
Les Gudgion
les@gudgion.com | 17-09-2007 - 11:46
Greetings from New Zealand,
Just surfing and enjoying the bus and museum sites, I was a conductor with Maidstone Corporation and the M & D in the 1950's, it was a great job in those far off days, thanks for your website, Les., |
| Michael Fulton | 01-01-2007 - 15:42
I had a very enjoyable visit to your website only slightly marred by discovering that all the events information was out of date -- what is the programme for 2007? |
Tim Sargeant
Tim@permanden.co.uk | 31-10-2006 - 18:46
Does anyone know anything about 'Flewitts Car Bodies' or 'The Flewitt Co' of Alma Street. They seem to have packed up in the 1960s but had been in business since 1905 making quality coachwork on many chassis' in their later years specially for Austin and then concentration on commercial vehicles after the war. Are there any members of the Flewitt family still about ?
With Thanks,
T C S Sargeant
Vehicle Research
Goudhurst
Kent |
| Martin | 11-07-2006 - 00:50
Just a note to thank all those at AMRTM for their hard work in organising the July 2006 event. Without doubt the best ever, thoroughly enjoyable! Every year just gets better and better! |
ekeson guyman
ekesonguyman@yahoo.com
http://www.yahoo.com | 12-06-2006 - 12:42
nice site keep it up ok |
John Bibby
catman15@btinternet.com | 05-01-2006 - 22:53
I was glad to see OCE829H survives, I owned it and rallied it including the inaugral AEC Society Rally. It always had a tap in the engine but still ran OK. It was owned by Hollands Amusements before I had it. After my friend Graham Lennox (Mammoth Major breakdown ex-Guiness tanker) was killed in the Zeebrugge disaster I sold it to a local transport operator along with a brand new V8 engine on the factory crate which I obtained from a chap in Harold Hill, and a V8 recovery vehicle with manual A-frame lifting cranes which I bought from a chap in West Thurrock. I wonder what happened to these items. After Graham was killed I lost interest I'm afraid. |
Petr Walker
barterwalker@aol.com | 26-07-2005 - 10:56
I am looking forward to visiting the Museum with a few friends on Sunday 14.08.05, which will be my first visit for over 50 years.
I became fairly familiar with Witton tram shed after I started at Aston Grammar in 1944, using the 3X and 5 trams a often as I could find an excuse. Over the Easter school holidays in 1950 I paid many visits to the depot, where a few young fellow members of the Light Railway Transport League had inveigled themselves into into the maintenance engineers’ office in the evenings. Their den was in the right-hand corner at the back of the shed. They had quite a good view of the rest of the depot, and had the basic requirements for their job, a workbench, a table, plenty of chairs, stove, and they were provided with adequate coke and cooking materials, There were three or four men on duty each night, with various jobs to do. Somehow they all found time to talk to us, which I think they enjoyed as much as we did. The conversation was entirely about trams (although this was right next to the Villa ground) and we were taken through, underneath and on the roofs of the cars. They let us do a few simple jobs on the cars ourselves, like filling the sand hoppers for braking. This was quite unofficial of course, but others may still remember it. |
yana
yann04@tm.net.my | 02-07-2005 - 16:09
hai, i`m from malaysia. |