Employee Sleeping Van 5000
Employee Sleeping Van 5000 |
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| Vehicle type | 4-wheel employee sleeping van |
| First introduced | 1912 |
| To Port Lincoln | 1921 |
| Ex Port Lincoln | 1931 |
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| Number on Eyre Peninsula | 1 |
| Vehicle number | 5000 |
Built 1888 as 4-wheel Mail van 97. Converted to covered goods van May 1910, renumbered 5000. Converted to employee sleeping van 1912. To Port Lincoln 1921. Condemned 1931. Body to farm near Terowie. Believed to have been retrieved by Bellarine Peninsula Railway in 1980s.
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5000 at Cummins in the 1921-31 period. Enlarged from portion of an early photograph |