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LTF News 3-99

Editorial staff: Lars Fredrik Andersen, Arne Nygaard and Kristian Kortgård.
On-line version by Håkon Kinck Gaarder.
LTF's E-mail address: ltf@sporveismuseet.org.

Membership meetings

Trip with SL95!
Time: Sunday September 26th, 1999 at 11.00 a.m.
Place: Stortorvet.
At last LTF's members have the opportunity to join a trip with the tramway division's new flagship! We'll drive a little around in the city, inter alia to Rikshospitalet and Kolsås. Some information will also be told about the project. The tram will link to LTF's Worldmaster (on the picture below on the right) at Kolsås in connection with trips between Bærums Verk and Lommedalsbanen. See below.

WM trip in Lommedalen
Time: Sunday September 26th 1999 around noon.
Place: Lommedalen, Bærum.
WM: The Worldmaster is used as a shuttle bus in Lommedalen. (Photo: Håkon Kinck Gaarder.)
In connection with Lommedalsbanen's last operating day this season, LTF will run the Worldmaster, A-15720, in shuttle between Triangelen at Bærums Verk and Lommedalsbanen. We will also link to the SL95 tram trip at Kolsås to pick up members of LTF. The last trip goes from Bykrysset at 15.35 to Busstreminalen Grønland. It's a two-man bus with conductor, that means "entrance at the back". The "time table" looks like this:

Departure Triangelen (bus)	Departure Lommedalsbanen (train)	Connection
10.45 a.m.*	11.10 a.m.	Route 143
11.30 a.m.	11.55 a.m.
12.15 p.m.	12.40 a.m.	Route 143 and 153
13.00 p.m.	13.25 p.m.
13.45 p.m.	13.25 p.m.	Route 143
14.35 p.m.	15.00 p.m.

* = Departs from Bussterminalen Grønland at 10.00 a.m.

Slide show
Time: Thursday October 21st 1999 at 18.00 p.m.
Place: The Tramway Museum Vognhall 5.
Restoration officer Arne Nygaard will give an account of and present some of LTF's restoration projects in course of preparation. After this there will be a slide show of parts of Rolf Thoresen's slide collection. In addition, Håkon Kinck Gaarder will show pictures of the veteran bus meeting in Sandnes.

News from the workshop

In course of preparation:
Høka class tramcar no. 234 is getting new plates at Avløs. The tramcars 196, 234 og 563 were ready-sprayed in week 34. No. 234 is now in the museum, while 196 og 563 are stored at Avløs. The spraywork was done by VBK in Sporveien's spraying shop. Work has started on no. 234 to restore the tramcar as a two-man tram with conductor.

Originally, we also planned to spray our Büssing bus, A-15835. It was taken for granted that the bus had to be restored technically. MAN Norway has chosen not to answer our request for support to this work. Because of this, we have given preference to spraywork of trailer no. 563.

At last the chassis of A-177 (the Sporveien bus from 1933) is finished from Åkrene mechanical workshop, where it has gone through extensive improvements. Now it's time for rivet works. It's quite difficult to find a suitable place to store the bus and someone who want to and is able to do the work. "A challenge," says Gunnar Thomassen, our man on the "Mackerel Box". In addition, we are restoring the ticket seller car, Citroën HY. We "inherited" this work from the Sporveien buses who never compledet the restoration. We've had to buy part to this project from France...!

Restoration work in progress:
The restoration activity at Majorstuen (Vognhall 5) is mainly connected to the "Blue tram" train 307/347 and to the "Blue bus" A-15428. We work on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 18 p.m.

We've been in touch with Scania with seems to be interested in the articulated bus BO 46 from Skien. This is Norway's and the Nordic countries' oldest articulated bus, built in 1964. We hope that this can start a constructive co-operation with Scania about this historical vehicle.

This year Oslo Sporveier has set apart half a million Norwegian crowns especially for restoration of vehicles for the jubilee next year (public transport 125 years and Oslo 1000 years). We consider to show interest to use some of this funds to upgrade LTF's fleet of vehicles.

We will also continue to restore light restorations of exhibited vehicles in the museum and work to keep licence plates on our already registered buses, primary A-15720 and C-4649.

You deside what's happening!
It's limited what a quite small group of people can do of restoration works. The priorities the association does will to some extension depend of the member's contribution. Just to mention, we are restoring no. 234 back to a two-man tramcar and a similar restoration of "Goldfish" no. 196 to the way it looked like in the 60's, a renovation of Ekebergbanen's tramcar no. 1011, upgrading of RBT bus no. 11 in addition to the permanent posts, which are the "Blue tram" train and the "Blue bus" and the current maintenance of the fleet of buses.

We ask you therefore to tell us, with showing up, or via mail, E-mail or phone, if you would like to join in on any project you want to get done. We hope with this to establish small groups that work on the different vehicles. We would appreciate to receive your reply the sooner the better thinking of organizing activity and formulating applications for next year.

New address to the association's website

Visit the Tramway Museum this autumn!