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Rupert...Your last statement has answered the question which I have had...unresolved until now...as to whether or not the car was double ended during my time in service with that machine...As I stated in my post my time was August 1956. Also I don't remember both ends wearing the red and yellow...If the "rear end" controls were not installed until 57 then perhaps it was then that the yellow and red was put on both ends. To the best of my recollection the car was single ended in 1956...anything after that date I would have to have confirmation from someone who "really knows"...not just speculates.
As why the engineer didn't use the rear end controls...It was because they DIDN'T EXIST IN 1956.
Pete
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From: 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Jul 5, 2016 11:19 pm Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Last Q Motor Pete
As Bob Hope used to say, thanks for the
memoires.
If 9769 had controls at each end, was
there a reason for your engineer not using them both?
9769 was single-ended until it was
converted from baggage-mail to baggage in about 1957 but I don’t know how
firm that date is.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ From:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 06 July 2016 15:42 To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Last Q Motor All the photos I've seen of the '69 show
it as a double end car with both ends painted in the red-yellow paint scheme.
I don't remember the rear end being painted at the time I was there and I
do know that our engineer never ran the car from the rear end..We backed up
with the waycar ahead from Clay Center to Sutton.
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