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Thanks to Ed Goodridge for this image of a Christchurch tram which joined the historic fleet on city tours in 2009. Built in 1934 it started life at the Fort Macquarie Depot – now the location of the Sydney Opera House - as R-class tram 1808. From 1955 to 1960, the tram was shuffled around Sydney depots until the body was written off and sold to a tobacco farmer in New South Wales, where it accommodated seasonal farm hands for until 1984, when the farmer donated the battered tram body for preservation. This involved removing hundreds of nails, that had been hammered into the inside of the body for coat hooks, lantern holders and clotheslines. The tram was furnished with original R-class seats before being put on display at Bondi Junction for five years. In 1993, it entered storage until the Sydney Tramway Museum took responsibility for it in 2000. It was shipped to Bendigo Tram Musem, where it was made operational. In subsequent years, it went on display in Melbourne, was repainted and used on a tour around Melbourne’s tram system then in 2009 it was leased to Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) then passing to Christchurch Trams and becoming 1888. All the "lucky" eights making it popular with Chinese tourists!
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