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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - List of SEC Ballarat Trams - 1967
Provides a list of active Ballarat trams operated by the State Electricity Commission of Vic, dated 7-11-1967. Notes that there are 15 ST's (Single trucks or four wheel trams) and 10 bogies - all larger trams. Also records that all destination rolls were black on white, changed over from white letters on a black background. Not known who produced the list.Prepared for personal or for providing information to another person on what trams were active in the Ballarat depot at the time.List of SEC Ballarat Trams - dated 7-11-67 hand written on a foolscap sheet of plain paper.ballarat, trams, tramcars, secv, destination rolls, lists -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Booklet, Comeng Holdings, "Comeng Z3 Tram", early 1980s
Booklet or pamphlet - titled "Comeng Z3 Tram" detailing the design, features, construction and equipment on Comeng tramcars including the monometer on each bogie, braking, interior seating, control systems, technical information. Equipment by AEG-Telefunken. Has photos of 117 and 120 in service and 119 on front cover. Book c1980, first car into service 116 in Sept. 1979, 120 late December 1979. Yields information about the Comeng built Z3 trams used in Melbourne.Booklet or pamphlet - 12 A4 pages + card cover, full colour.trams, tramways, z3 class, comeng, new trams, aeg -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Booklet, Comeng Holdings, "Comeng Z3 Tram", early 1980's
Booklet or pamphlet titled "Comeng Z3 Tram" detailing the design, features, construction and equipment on Comeng tramcars including the monometer on each bogie, braking, interior seating, control systems, technical information. Equipment by AEG-Telefunken. Has photos of 117 and 120 in service and 119 on front cover. Book c1980, first car into service 116 in Sept. 1979, 120 late December 1979.Yields information about Comeng's Z3 class trams built for Melbourne.Book - 12 A4 pages + card cover, full colour.trams, tramways, z3 class, comeng, new trams, aeg -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - W class tramcar at the Holden Factory Woodville, R E Jackman, 14/3/1924
Black and white print of a W class tram body on dollies at the Holden Body Builders at Woodville Adelaide. Mr R E Jackman was the MMTB's Superintendent (Engineer) representing the Board in Adelaide for both the Holden contract and the contract with Perry Engineering for bogies or trucks for the W-class tram. Shows the tram basically complete on temporary dollies. See item 5554 for other digital images of the work.Yields information about the construction of new tramcars for the MMTB by HoldensBlack and white print with details on the rear.In red ink "Holdens Motor Body Builders", in black ink "14/3/24", in pencil "roof shows only partly painted" and the stamp of "R E Jackman"tramways, tramcars, w class, holden bodyworks, new tramcars, adelaide, construction -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, J.C. Brill Co. of Philadelphia, "City and Interurban Trucks - The J. G. Brill Co. Catalogue No. 206", 1913
... Bogies ...Catalogue No. 206 of the J. G. Brill Co. of Philadelphia PA, titled "Brill Trucks" on front cover and "City and Interurban Trucks" on page 1. Comprises: Card cover very light grey on outside, grey inside which is a larger size than that of the rest of the book. Has the names of the J. G. Brill associated companies (American Car Company of St. Louis, G. C. Kuhlman Car Co. of Cleveland Ohio, Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Massachusetts and Compagnie J. G. Brill, Paris France) as well. On the inside of the front cover and on the inside back cover are patterns involving the Brill logo. To the printed catalogue is a matching out 4pp again with the same Brill logos. This sheet is the same size as the text pages. Forty page printed text on a heavy gloss manila colour art paper. Front cover gives details of Brill's office addresses, and agents, including the Australasian agent - Noyes Brothers. Page 3 gives an introduction to the quality of Brill trucks and page 39 gives an index to the various trucks and components. Each truck type has a photograph, parts list and dimension details. Trucks covered are: Radiax, 21E, 22, 22E, 27E, 27F, 27G, 27MCB, 39E, 50E. Equipment detailed are the Half-Ball brake hanger, oil retaining center bearing, standard journal (axle) box, solid forged side frames and axle data. Page 38 details the information to be provided when ordering trucks. Image of each sheet added 25/3/2015.On front cover, date stamp of ESCo, Ballarat "1 Apr 1914". The printers signature is shown on page 40.trams, tramways, 21e trucks, 22e trucks, j. c. brill co., bogies, interurban -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "Scope of works for Z1/Z2 tram upgrades", mid 1990''s
... Bogies ...Document or report - 6 A4 pages, photocopied - titled "Scope of works for Z1/Z2 tram upgrades" giving listing of work recommended for the upgrade of Z class trams. Gives cost per car and total cost - based on 114 trams. Document undated - assumed mid 1990's. Includes pantograph conversion.Sheets 2,3 and 5 has comments in ink.trams, tramways, z class, overhauls, bogies, pantographs, preston workshops -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Dave Macartney, 21/02/1985 12:00:00 AM
... Bogies ...Has a strong association with the people employed by the BTPS in 1985 under the CEP Scheme and the completion of the overhaul of No. 40's trucks.Black and White photograph of No. 661 with one of 40's truck on a bearing testing run at St Aidans Driver 21/2/1985. Photo has Ken Walker and Warren Doubleday looking at the truck. Photographed by Dave Macartney. See April 1985 Trolley WireOn rear in ink "661 with 50's truck on bearing testing run, St Aidans Drive 21-2-85", label "Photo Page 35 bottom Reduced to 5 1/2" x 3 1/8". and in bottom left hand corner "Photo Dave Macartney"tramways, trams, btps, cep, bogies, maximum traction, tram 661 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, J D Nowell, 1938
... Bogies ...Black and white print of W2 class 385 fitted with MMTB No. 13 trucks. in St Kilda Road late 1938. Tram has the destination of Hanna St Depot in St Kilda Road late 1938. With the item is extensive correspondence and notes prepared by Keith and Roger Greenwood about the photograph and the trucks, 2007 and the families work. Photo by J. D Nowell supplied by CC Nowell - see notes re publication. Photo filed with paperwork within a A4 folder.trams, tramways, trucks, bogies, st kilda rd, w2 class, tram 385 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - Memorandum, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), "Failure of Motor Armature Bearings", 1984
... Bogies ...Single page A4 photocopy of a Interoffice Memo dated 8/2/1984, from the Running Sheds Engineer to Depot staff titled "Failure of Motor Armature Bearings", sign Alan Nolan. Describes the problem with the failure of bearings, inspection requirements, and looking for burnt wool or burnt wool smells. trams, tramways, w class trams, bogies, overhauls, maintenance, bearings -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Digital image, Wal Jack, 16/12/1945 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about the first trip of a bogie tram in Ballarat following its arrival in Ballarat and other commissioning trips in a series of photographs within the Wal Jack album.Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of Melbourne MMTB No. 117 - now unnumbered - in Sturt St, 16-12-1945, Photo Wal Jack. See also Reg Items 7590 and 7595 for other photos of this car running, probably the same date. Has the National Mutual and Commonwealth Bank buildings in the background. Not the sign on the side of the National Mutual building, advertising Commercial Union and Deopel Lilly & Taylor. See image i2 for rear of photograph. See image i3 for hi res scan of print. See image i4 for hi res scan of negativeIn ink on rear " SEC Ballarat Tramways bogie tram (running without a no. (No. 22, Ex M&MTB 117, (Tram Centre), looking east (City - Gardens Run) - 16-12-45" with number "T538" within Wal Jack photo stamp.trams, tramways, sturt st, bogie trams, tram 117, tram 22 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Poster, David Frost, Train World, c1985
Train World poster for use in roof ad of a Ballarat tram, consisting of wording and three cut out (Diesel locomotive power bogie, a VR train and a cartoon by David Frost and colour in water coloured wash, and colour pencil, mounted onto a sheet of cardboard. Image added 20-12-2016.trams, tramways, posters, train world, roof ads -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s, Peter Moses, Jan. 1969
Photo of the SEC Bendigo No. 3 entering Long Gully Loop, bound for Eaglehawk, while another bogie tram waits in the loop. In the background is an Esso service station, known as Long Gully Motors, and a poppet head on a hillside in the background. Kodak cardboard mount slide, taken by Peter Moses, Jan. 1969.On the rear of the slide "P. Moses" in black ink and other side of the slide in red ink “4”.tramways, trams, bendigo, eaglehawk, long gully, esso, tram 3 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Negative, Wal Jack, early 1950's
Yields information about the shunting of trams from the south side of Sturt into Lydiard St north - not a usual move.Negative and Digital images of the Wal Jack Ballarat Negative file of a bogie tram (could be 36, 38 or 39) turning from the south side of Sturt St into Lydiard St North. Tram not carrying passengers. Appears to have an inspector watch the rear truck. In the background is the Commonwealth Bank and Craig's Hotel.trams, tramways, sturt st, lydiard st north -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Negative, Wal Jack, c1950
Negative and Digital images of the Wal Jack Geelong Negative file of Geelong 4 and bogie 32 at the Beach terminus, c1950. See Reg Item 7816 for a photo of just 32 at the terminus. Probably taken at the same time. Tram 32 has the destination of "Beach". Shows the double track layout at this location. trams, tramways, geelong, beach, tram 4 tram 32 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Photograph/s, David Endacott, Sebastopol of the running of the last tram, 19/09/1971
Two colour prints (Copies 1 and 2) of the scene at the Sebastopol of the running of the last tram on 19 Sept. 1971. Shows the two bogies trams (trams 39 and 40 in the rear) with many motor cars and the Royal Mail Hotel in the background. Both trams are heavily loaded with passengers. Photo by David Endacott On copy 2 - "The Last Tram" in black ink/sebastopol, last tram, closure, tram 39, tram 40 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Charles Craig, early 1970's
Yields information about the use of the use of the Sebastopol line and the Grey St loop during the last days of the SEC operated system when a number of Special trams were operated.Black and White photograph of three bogie trams at the Grey St Crossing loop, Albert St Sebastopol. Has a lady passenger waiting at the stop. Tram 41 is running a Special to Sebastopol. Photographer in Albert St, probably just before closure. Photo by Charles Craig possibly early 1970's. trams, tramways, albert st, gray st, sebastopol, tram 41 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Black and White photograph, c1910
Black and white photograph of bogie cable trailer 176, lettered for Royal Park - Brunswick - Moreland Road, sign Fare 2d, and Elizabeth St, Sydney Road, Zoological Gardens. Photographed most likely at the Brunswick Depot. One of the vehicles made from two 6 window cable tram trailers.trams, tramways, cable trams, bogie cable trailers, tram 176 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Ballarat 15 in Victoria Street, Bob Lilburn, early 1950s
Photo shows Ballarat bogie tram 15 in Bridge Street Ballarat, near Stones Corner. The tram arrived in Ballarat in Oct. 1945 and was renumbered to No. 36 in Sept 1953. Photo early 1950s. In the background is W J Rodda Pty Ltd Grocery, wines and spirits store and Dunstan's leather store. Note the metal box on the footpath - could be an Electric Supply Co. cable power terminal box.Yields information about bogie tram 15, early 1950s.Black and White photograph of Ballarat 15 in Bridge StreetHas in ink on rear " R Lilburn"ballarat, tramways, trams, stones corner, bridge st, tram 15, esco, w j rodda -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Photocopy, Neville Gower, "Mayor's Report 1953-1954", Jul. 1997
Photocopy of part of City of Ballarat's Mayor's Report for 1953-1954. Three page covering trams, railways, telephone exchanges (overloaded), buses and other social facilities. Page 3 - set of photos, includes a photo of bogie tram in the city. Of originals held in Ballarat Library. Images added 19-12-2016.trams, tramways, city of ballaarat, trams, railways, civic history -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Negative, Wal Jack, early 1950's
Yields information about tram services at the corner of Sturt and Lydiard Sts and the appearance of the buildings.Negative and Digital images of the Wal Jack Ballarat Negative file of tram No. 30 turning from the south side of Sturt St into Lydiard St North with a bogie tram 3? on the south side. IN the background is Craig's Hotel, ANZ bank, the National Mutual and the C Marks & Co building. There is a sign for Stonyfell wines.trams, tramways, sturt st, lydiard st, tram 30 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Instruction, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), Ballarat tramcar type roster, Mar. 1970
Yields information about the type of trams provided during the later part of SEC operations in Ballarat, times out and times in for specific runs.Typed, carbon copy, Foolscap sheet giving the run number, times out and the type of tram, times in and changeovers between bogie and small trams for Weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Has initials LJD: JG and date of March 1970 in top right hand corner. 2nd copy added 3/1/2020trams, tramways, timetables, sec, ballarat, tramcars -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 27 mm sq slide/s - set of 2, Andrew Howlett, Bogie tram turning from Main St into Barkly St, Dec. 1968
Yields information about the services in Barkly St East Ballarat.Set of two Colour slides, Kodak white cardboard mount, developed Dec. 1968 of: .1 - Bogie tram turning from Main St into Barkly St, on its way to Mt Pleasant. Shows the tram stops at this location and an Ampol Service station sign. .2 - possibly the same tram, in Barkly St.ballarat, tramways, trams, main road, barkly st, mt pleasant, tram 35, ampol, main st -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Negative with a colour print, c1970
Donated colour negative and colour laser printer image of scanned image of Ballarat scrubber and the rear portion of a bogie car (No. 43 - see Reg. Item 1324 as taken at same time by same person) on O road at the SEC Wendouree Parade depot. See 0 1974-75 Annual Report of the BTPS.depot, o road, tram scrubber -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Trams could be our future", 21/1/2017
Article by Michael Pollock reporting on a letter to the City of Ballarat about a proposal by Mr Jeff Moran of AWTY Transort Consultants about building a light rail system to serve Ballarat growth areas. Outlines possible routes. Was supported by Mr Bob Lever of the local PTUA. Has photos of a large crowd joining bogie trams outside the Provincial Hotel and two photos of tram accidents. along with a map of the SEC System.Yields information about a proposal to provide light rail to Ballarat.Newspaper cutting from The Courier, Ballarat, 21/1/2017 titled "Trams could be our future".trams, tramways, tram revival, light rail, ballarat, tramway proposals -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Walkabout Magazine, "The Road to Bendigo", Oct. 1974
Yields information about the final day of the Bendigo tramways and some of the tramcars used.Three double sided sheets from "The Walkabout" magazine, October 1964, titled "The Road to Bendigo". Five printed pages featuring photographs of Bendigo, its buildings, its history stories, gold mining days and other information, including three illustrations containing trams. .1 - Charing Cross with bogies and single trucker - taken early 1960's. Photo by A. Doney. Features the intersection, with Ezywalkin store. Note the "Jeffrey's bread" roof advertisement on the single trucker. .2 - Bogie tram on the Eaglehawk route prior to any nearby housing development - reclaimed mining land - has Castrol roof advertisement - photo by Claver P Carroll. .3 - No. 6 outside The Beehive stores - 3BO - photo by Claver P Carroll. bendigo, eaglehawk, charing cross -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Set of 4 Black & White Photograph/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Early 1970's?
Set of four Black and White photograph of recovery equipment for tramcars. Two prints of each except - .4 .1 - steel beam shown in position in the saloon portion of a tram used to secure a bogie to the body of tram with steel section over transom and showing lifting hooks and securing or lifting bolts. Shown in position where the tramcar body floor was above that of the tramcar transom. .2 - ditto, but on an angle in a wide body tram where the top of the transom matched the top of the floor. The bogies are on an angle. .3 - brackets in position for securing the body spring on the truck fitted to tram 980 to the body of the tram. .4 - brackets shown stored inside the cabin of the tram. Mid 1970's? Photographer likely MMTBtrams, tramways, recovery, accidents, tramcars, sw6 class, pcc class, w2 class, tram 980, st. louis b3 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s, Eldon Hogan, Sep. 1971
35mm Agfa colour blue and white plastic mount slide - photo of a Ballarat bogie tram No. 41 with the destination of Bell St, outbound in Skipton St, Ballarat arriving at the Bell St. loop. Taken 9/1971. Photos Eldon Hogan. Note: Error in scanning of the slide - distortion of road pavement in front of tram. tramways, trams, bell st, skipton st, tram 41 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Bendigo Tram car Mileage (Air Brake cars)", c1972
Yields timetable information about the Bendigo tramcar mileages, though no date provided. May be at the completion.Report - typed quarto sheet, titled "Bendigo Tram car Mileage (Air Brake cars)", giving a mileage figure for each tramcar, broken down into Bogie, Truck cars (4 wheels) and Birney cars. Undated. Based on the knowledge of the compilation of the Ballarat figures towards closure this should be considered an estimate, not an accurate figure. trams, tramways, bendigo, tramcars, mileage, birney -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Job Advertisement, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "Tram Conductors", 27/08/1991 12:00:00 AM
Job Advertisement - single A4 sheet, titled "Tram Conductors" dated - 27 August 1991 from the PTC Job Bulletin advertising for staff to apply for the position. Lists salary, duties, selection criteria (gives minimum height), desirable attributes, contacts and addresses for applications. Has an image of a bogie car on the bottom of the sheet.In pencil "Applied 4/9/91"trams, tramways, conductors, advertisements, personnel -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, mid to late 1950's
Demonstrates the use of the trams in the city area of Ballarat, late 1950's and their use.Black and white photograph of Ballarat 28 and a bogie tram at the Sturt St City stop, south side. No. 28 has the destination of Bell St. The driver is awaiting the bells to proceed. Photographer unknown - see history of object. See Keith Kings, The Bendigo Tramways, re the fitting of reflective tape in 1956, page 59.In the rear in pencil - "Ballarat"trams, tramways, city, sturt st, lydiard st, tram 28