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Zimmerman


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17-02-2011 05:45 PM

Using my time to find out as much as possible about this Tramway was very challenging looking on my collection of Postcards, I found that no Tram was numbered over twelve, the pictures shown had similar trams as in other Towns, these were double ended drivers cabin, single deck with four windows in the passenger cabin, and each end a staircase to the upper open deck, the wheel set up were just four steel wheels, that had a lip on the inner side that fitted into the groove in the Tram Track, the power to move the tram was got from overhead electric wires collected by a Bow Collector to the drivers controls.
I discovered that the Trams started in 1903 and ended in 1917, That meant that I was looking for people who had used these trams now being the year 2000 they would have to be over ninety years old to have remembered them, ( I never found anybody ).
I needed to find where the electricity was generated for the Trams, I discovered they generated it themselves in a coal fired Steam engined powerhouse at the Tram Depot, the out put of the generators was more than needed to power the Trams so was sold to Manufacturing factories many miles away on high poles.
The Tram body was made in Brush Electrical Engineers, part of the system was made by the German Manufacturer Siemens' this was the track and the overhead electric by wires supplied on poles.
Looking again I knew where the Trams started but where did the track go to and how many stops and as it was only a single track it had to have passing places to allow the tram coming in the opposite direction to pass by, my postcards showed the trams at places I recognised so I knew where to look for any clues.
I also needed the name of the Civil Engineering Contractor who built the tramway into the roads.
Who were the staff of the tramway, how many besides the drivers and conductors?
What was the colour of the trams? My postcards show them in black on white.
Having found out all the technical details of the trams and ancient old Postcards of trams that were passable to use, I started to compose the pages but this did not amount to enough for my book.

There was only one solution as far as I could see to give more pages to make it far larger and appeal to more readers, I would write it as a Fictitious Novel of an applicant travelling two days to that town to apply as a new driver on a new Tramway, then his story until the tramway closed., and his leaving to take Tanks from the factory at Dartford to the docks to be shipped abroad for the First World War.

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I will one day! - Zimmerman - 14-02-2011, 06:28 PM
RE: I will one day! - nottinghillbilly - 15-02-2011, 12:50 AM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 15-02-2011, 03:57 PM
RE: I will one day! - brian - 15-02-2011, 04:29 PM
RE: I will one day! - derbybill - 15-02-2011, 05:25 PM
RE: I will one day! - Perryman - 15-02-2011, 05:43 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 15-02-2011, 06:07 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 15-02-2011, 06:36 PM
RE: I will one day! - derbybill - 15-02-2011, 08:49 PM
RE: I will one day! - ryananglem - 16-02-2011, 11:29 AM
RE: I will one day! - Ghis - 16-02-2011, 12:20 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 16-02-2011, 01:00 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 17-02-2011 05:45 PM
RE: I will one day! - Jane_D - 17-02-2011, 07:06 PM
RE: I will one day! - Jane_D - 17-02-2011, 10:46 PM
RE: I will one day! - Ghis - 18-02-2011, 10:15 AM
RE: I will one day! - Perryman - 18-02-2011, 11:30 AM
RE: I will one day! - ryananglem - 18-02-2011, 02:07 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 18-02-2011, 02:37 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 18-02-2011, 08:51 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 19-02-2011, 01:51 PM
RE: I will one day! - Zimmerman - 19-02-2011, 04:05 PM
RE: I will one day! - derbybill - 19-02-2011, 07:25 PM