Local Transport Historical Association (LTF) summon to ordinary general assembly for its members on Monday, March 5th, 2001, at 6.00 p.m. in the Tramway Museum Vognhall 5, Gardeveien 15, Majorstuen, Oslo.

Agenda:

1. Approval of the summons.
2. Election of chairman, reporter and two members to sign the record.
3. The annual report (will be passed out on the assembly and sent afterwards to other members).
4. Account and revision report.
5. Main features of the association's working plan.
6. Incoming proposals (see below).
7. Election.
8. Appointment of the amount of the next year's subscription rates.

Be welcome!

The following proposals are presented by the present executive comittee:

1. Membership fee - foreign members
The proposal is to remove the lower membership fee for foreign members, so the members living in foreign countries have to pay ordinary membership fee, NOK 250,- at the present moment.

2. Change in regulations - time of the general assembly
As the watchful member already has noticed, the summons for general assembly is one week late. At the moment, the regulations says that the general assembly shall be held within the end of February. This caused always conflict with the schools' winter holiday, and the result is that few people are able to show up. The proposal is to change the regulations to "first week in March" to avoid this problem in the future.

In the annual report for 2000 you can read more about the happenings LTF went through in 2000. 2000 was definitely one of the most active years in the association's history. The executive comittee will go more in to keep the high working speed in 2001 as well. However we need help, especially on the museum manning. Today three persons are keeping the museum open. This is clearly too few. And this also led to that we had to close the museum on Saturdays in 2000. We've felt this in the form of lower income and lower number of visitors. One of the goals for 2001 must be to turn this trend around. The double in number of visitors shouldn't be impossible. But this demands the efford from more people. Please contact us if you want to be a more active member! ltf@sporveismuseet.org is the e-mail address. Even better is to visit the Tramway Museum Vognhall 5 on a Tuesday afternoon.

Local Transport Historical Association (LTF) needs your support to continue the work to preserve the public transport history. Pay today, and you won't get a pause in the periodical Lokaltrafikk! Our Norwegian back account number is 0814 2034809. This year's rates can be found here.

The dark season is suitable for film and slide evenings. Therefore we are arranging three membership meetings of this kind. Please write down the following dates in your filofax immediately:

Monday March 5th, at 6.00 p.m.
is the date for the general assembly in metrocar no. 110 in the Tramway Museum Vognhall 5. After the general assembly, everyone may show old and new films and slides! Several tramway enthusiasts interested in photographing have already told that they'll show up.

Wednesday March 21st, at 7.00 p.m.
will be the second membership meeting in metrocar no. 110 in Vognhall 5. Nils Carl Aspenberg will show slides from several worn down and weird tramways he has visited on his travels to former Soviet Union.

Monday April 23rd, at 6.30 p.m.
we use our own bus, hopefulle our recently registered Büssing, from Vognhall 5 to Norwegian Tele Museum's auditory at Kjelsås (arrival at about 7 p.m.). Here we arrange an "English evening" and take a closer look on light railways in London and other English cities. We can tempt you with the presentation film about Croydon Tramlink and "The Elephant Will Never Forget". After the membership meeting, the bus will return to Vognhall 5 at Majorstuen.

TO THE RIGHT: Docklands Light Railway. (Photo: Håkon Kinck Gaarder.)

In November A-15720 (Leyland WM) went through an EEC test. The same day we let the Büssing A-15835 go through the same EEC test to get a better impression of faults and defects.

And the result was very uplifting! After some small repairs, the bus could be registered. After that, we drove directly to the Municipal Highways Office and got the bus registered. A couple of days later, we could pick up the original plates.

Before the winter, the bus received regular maintenance, and after several oil changes the bus goes like a... Büssing...