Since last week we seem to have lived at Middleton but there has been real progress.  Last Friday I got the handrails at D end installed and rivetted.   On Saturday the painting and rubbinbg down continued and again on Sunday.     Yesterday whilst Mike and Jim continued painting I got the middle rail for B end bent using the D end one as a pattern.  In the evening I went over to Cheshire to meet Roger Mills from Hetherington Lamps who dellivered the frames for the two lamps and showed me the nearly completed first lamp unit. This morning I did some more work on the bell mechanism and have now got all the parts for the first one made and it works.   Then whilst Mike and Jim continued their undending task of rubbing down and Jim installed the two lamp frames.  I drilled and fettled the parts for the staircase gate at B end, while Malcolm Johnson kindly turned a couple of new handrail spigots to suit the internal diameter of the new pieces of tube for the middle rails.  After lunch it was time to finally install the handrails on the stairs at D end and I managed to get the first rivets in.   It really is progressing fast.  More pictures in due course.   Away from the tram the advert vinyls have been ordered and the first transfers should be applied before the end of the week.  It might be easier if we put mattresses on the lower deck and slept there.