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Click the link to listen. Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, remembers the songs that the lads used to sing while they were painting the buses and trams!
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Click the link to listen. Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, desxcribes the huge, heavy-duty guillotine they used for cutting metal.
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Click the link to listen. The Bloomfield Talks team, on a visit to the Transport Depot, explore the Rocket, an old illuminated tram which has now been “retired”.
Do you remember the Rocket? What did you think of it? Creepy? Brilliant? Tell us your memories below.
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Click the link to listen. A worker at the Transport depot describes how the adverts are put on buses and trams. Years ago, they were hand-painted - but now a printed sticky-back vinyl is used. Getting those huge sheets of vinyl on smoothly with no bubbles is quite an art!
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Click the link to listen. A worker at the Transport Depot describes how buses and trams are painted, and how the skills have changed. Can you imagine getting used to the smell of all that varnish?!
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Click the link to listen. Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, describes how the metal “tyres” for trams are made.
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I had no idea buses were painted by hand.