Re: Elton's tram

"modern" <identity@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Brian Smith wrote:
>> "modern" <identity@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> I read recently about Elton buying a tram while in Melbourne,
>>> and then putting it on his land for an office.  I vaguely remember 
>>> something like this when the old Melbourne trams were being gotten rid

>>> of for the new ones.  I am curious if there is a picture somewhere of 
>>> the tram, if it is one of the green ones or a blue one, and if the
front 
>>> which shows the destination is set to anything.
>>
>> Did he do this recently and did he move the tram to England or does he 
>> own land in Melbourne as well?
>>
>> Brian
> I searched the web and the purchase is from 1983.  The tram was 
> trans****ted to England and put on his land.  I've read that it is an 
> office for his present partner.  It would need weather proofing.  I have

> no idea if he has land in Melbourne, though I doubt it.  I'm still not 
> sure what colour it was though. It was a W2 class tram numbered 520 
> (whatever that means).  He actually cited it as his most extravagant 
> purchase in one interview and it was from his 'cocaine days'.
> He said it was fairly easy to trans****t to England but difficult to 
> trans****t to his land.

I can it being easy to get the tram from Australia to England because a
****p 
is much bigger than a tram. Once in England I imagine they ****pped by
train 
to as close to his land as possible and from there probably had to take it

apart and ****p it by truck and then reassemble it.

The number 520 is more than likely for inventory purposes. Depending on
the 
size of the tram I could see it costing more than $1 million even back in 
1983. And would a tram make a could office without doing a ton of 
renovations?

Corndogger