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MTOC cable tram dummy No 593
This car is a replica of a cable tram dummy built from components recovered
from a number of sources, built in the early 1980s. It is fitted with
a small petrol driven internal combustion engine, which drives one axle
through a hydraulic transmission. It is stored in the cable tram depot
at Hudson Park, Kilmore, and is used in conjunction with a cable tram
trailer at that location. It appears in the MTOC livery of a Bourke Street
tram. It carries fleet number 593 as the highest numbered M&MTB or MTOC
dummy was No 592.
This tram, along with a cable tram trailer, operated in the Moomba parades
of 1992 and 1993 in Swanston Street, and was the first such vehicle to
appear in this street since conversion to electric trams in the mid 1920s.
It has also operated for brief periods at a number of other Australian
tramway museums.
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