VR Harris M1 - 1956+

VR Harris M1 - 1956+

The First Series Harris Suburban Motor Car was a whole new design compared to standard carriage conversions like the Swingdoors and Taits and where to replace the aged Swingdoors and Taits.
They where built by Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Co from 1956 through to 1959 and where assembled at Newport Workshops, they where set for 80mph running and where fitted with Brandford Kendall 30A and 30B Roller Bearing Bogies, the new interior design allowed for higher crush loads compared to the Swingdoors that had compartments, only the back of the car is a compartment for smoking people.

90 of these motor cars where built numbered from 501 to 590 with trailer and backing trailer cars also built at Newport workshops, these cars orginally had unpainted window frames and rubbing plates over the front coupler, due to rust the windows where later painted blue, Harris cars where to run in 4 Car Sets permanently coupled as M-T-T-M along with another 3 sets permanently coupled as BT-T-M to combine them into a 7 car Peak Hour Set with an average loading of 1400 passengers, some where shunted as M-T-T-M-BT-M to create 6 car sets for peak limit stopper runs from 1970s, sets that run to Warrigul ran in 8 car sets as M-T-T-M-M-T-T-M.

Most of the Harris cars where withdrawn from 1981 because of the Asbestos scare going around which was the main insulation for these cars, some of the later overhauled cars had asbestos removed around 1970s and where in operation till 1988-89 and which by then the Comengs had entered service, most of these cars where berried in a waste dump due to Asbestos, None of the First Series Motor Cars survived.

Unloaded Tare Mass: 48-18-0-0
Axle Load: 12-5-0-0
Minimum Weight Rail: 60lb/y
Passengers Seated: 59
Passengers Standing: 113
Passengers Crush Load: 172
Brake Cylinders: (1) 18in x 8in with Air Slack Adjuster
Brake Ratio: Airbrake 79.4%, Handbrake 39.7%

VR Harris M1 - 1956+
• backup.txt 25.80KB
body
body.lm.txt 234 bytes
body_highest.im 1.27MB
body_low.im 104.97KB
body_mid.im 714.34KB
brake-rigging.im 15.96KB
brake-rigging.kin 13.28KB
chrome.texture.txt 29 bytes
chrome.tga 3.53KB
dest.texture.txt 29 bytes
dest.tga 192.04KB
destination.im 496 bytes
digit_4.texture.txt 32 bytes
digit_4.tga 812 bytes
digit_5.texture.txt 32 bytes
digit_5.tga 812 bytes
digit_6.texture.txt 32 bytes
digit_6.tga 812 bytes
disc-1.im 3.23KB
draw-bar.im 2.06KB
fixed-knuckle.im 8.66KB
grey 1.texture.txt 29 bytes
grey 1.tga 48.02KB
left-doors.im 127.90KB
left-doors.kin 3.21KB
left-guards-doors.im 10.57KB
left-vents-lod0.im 120.63KB
left-vents-lod1.im 33.13KB
left-vents.kin 10.21KB
left_vents.lm.txt 220 bytes
main-alpha-main-alpha.texture.txt 57 bytes
main-alpha.texture.txt 57 bytes
main-alpha.tga 4.00MB
main-env.tga 12.00MB
main-main-env.texture.txt 49 bytes
main-normals.texture.txt 83 bytes
main-normals.tga 12.00MB
main-spec.tga 12.00MB
main.tga 12.00MB
night-lamps.im 844 bytes
pant.im 37.52KB
pant.kin 7.63KB
right-doors.im 129.53KB
right-doors.kin 3.21KB
right-guards-doors.im 10.57KB
right-vents-lod0.im 120.63KB
right-vents-lod1.im 33.13KB
right-vents.kin 10.21KB
right_vents.lm.txt 222 bytes
taildisc.im 8.48KB
taildisc.kin 2.32KB
vents1-lod0.im 24.25KB
vents1-lod1.im 6.75KB
vents_1.kin 3.20KB
vents_1.lm.txt 212 bytes
wipers.im 20.38KB
wipers.kin 4.08KB
• compressor.wav 126.99KB
• icon.tga 6.04KB
m_alpha_numbers
alphanumber_0.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_1.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_2.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_3.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_4.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_5.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_6.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_7.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_8.tga 12.04KB
alphanumber_9.tga 12.04KB
• m_car.gs 42.04KB
• screenshot.jpg 54.86KB
• seats.txt 9.65KB
shadow
shadow.im 3.03KB