Magazine cutting - form an unknown magazine - approx. A4, titled "Upfield update", giving an outline of the proposal, map, elevation of the proposed tramcar, and "benefits". Has an article about graffiti on the rear.trams, tramways, upfield light rail, railways, conversion, sydney rd, light rail

Wall Calendar - heavy card covers, 12 gloss art pages inside, titled "Trams - 2014" containing full colour photographs of Bendigo, Ballarat, Melbourne, Adelaide, Geelong, Sydney, Brisbane, and Transporting Art Melbourne trams. Has a punched hole along the top edge to enable wall use. Provides dates for holidays, school holidays and Pension payment days and phases of the moon. Produced by Topmill Pty Ltd and distributed by Gordon & Gotch Pty Ltd. Photos by A. W. Perry, Maurice Kelly and Ken Smith,trams, tramways, ballarat, geelong, sydney, brisbane, brisbane, transporting art, tram 84, tram 38, tram 605, tram 469, tram 214, tram 367, tram 361, tram 26, tram 20, tram 277, tram 1930, tram 992, tram 863, tram 336, tram 30, tram 11, tram 1451

Notes 6 pages, pinned together, giving details, opening dates, terminals, depot entries, sheave pits, curves, for the Elizabeth St to Sydney Road Brunswick terminating at Moreland Road via Royal Parade. Items 2064 to 2075 within box 72.3 in a brown folder marked "MT&O Co." red pencil on the front cover.trams, tramways, mto co, cable trams, drawings, reports, surveys, elizabeth st, sydney rd, royal parade, brunswick

Vol. 4 No. 1, January 1949 of "Tram Tracks - The Electric Traction Monthly" of the Australian Electric Traction Association. Magazine consists of 20 printed pages, with a single staple on the saddle. Contains a photo of the construction of the Victoria Parade tram line, article "Trams and the Motorist", items on Melbourne (Bourke St, "Higher costs with Buses - Melbourne Experience", Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Monorails, railway map of Australia track gauges, (centre page), Brisbane Tramways, Melbourne and Sydney electric trains, and letter to the Editor from John Buckland - not supportive of Bourke or Latrobe St tramways. Issue has advertisements for the Model Dockyard, ARLHS, The Hobby Shop, Barnes Tennis Centre, Fleet, Christie Model Railway Equipment of Sydney, Meadmore Model Engineering, Austral Bronze, Wattle Park, Traction Publications and Robilt "O" gauge locomotives, Parker & Gray, The Model Dockyard,Has initials "JBS" in top right hand corner in pencil.trams, tramways, electric traction, aeta, australian tramways, mmtb, pcc, sydney, newcastle, brisbane, bourke st

Two issues of "Electric Traction", published by the Australian Electric Traction Association, both 16 pages printed on off white paper, centre stapled. Gives details of the AETA on the rear cover. Inside the covers is a sheet of paper indicating a distribution list within the MMTB. Vol XV, No. 12 - December 1960 with a photo of 218 at Point Ormond on the front cover. Has an article by Keith Kings, Jack Stranger, Wal Jack and Ken McCarthy on Cable Tramways in Australia (continued from a previous issue), closure of Hobart, Point Ormond and general news on Melbourne and Sydney electric railways. Vol XVI, No. 1 - January 1961. Concluding article on Cable Tramways in Australia, news from Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney and letters to editor, book reviews.trams, tramways, electric traction, aeta, melbourne, point ormond, cable trams, hobart, sydney

Metal badge stamped - triangular brass base with metal pin and clips on rear, painted blue, green and white with the words "Electric Traction Association" for the Australian Electric Traction Association - mid 1950's. First AETA badge. Confirmed as such by Bob Merchant of the Sydney Tramway Museum. by e-mail on 23/1/2017 to Warren Doubleday. Note - for photographic purposes the badge was supported by the back of another badge and is not part of the badge itself.trams, tramways, badges, aeta, membership

Twenty page booklet on the history, operation and tramcars of Ballarat, produced by the Nth Sydney Boys High School Railway Club in July 1971. Printed on a wax cut stencil process, with manilla colour covers, drawings, maps, track layout, fleet list, gives tentative closure dates, route descriptions, sketches, stapled on edge. Title "The Ballarat Tram". Stapled on the left hand side. pdf image of copy - may not open properly in dbtext. find file and open directly.trams, tramways, ballarat trams, secv, tramcars, ballarat

Wall Calendar - heavy card covers, 12 gloss art pages inside, titled "Trams - 2006" containing full colour photographs of Rockhampton, Ballarat, Fremantle, Grenoble France, Geelong, Sydney, Brisbane, VR Sandringham and Transporting Art Melbourne trams. Has a punched hole along the top edge to enable wall use. Provides dates for holidays, school holidays and Pension payment days and phases of the moon. Produced by Topmill Pty Ltd and distributed by Gordon & Gotch Pty Ltd. Photos by Archer Park, William Scott, A. W. Perry, Ben Parle, Maurice Kelly, Ken Smith,trams, tramways, rockhampton, ballarat, fremantle, geelong, sydney, brisbane, victorian railways, sandringham, brisbane, transporting art, tram 2107, tram 50, tram 384, tram 340, tram 497, tram 567

Set of six Metcard tickets, used during 2000 advertising Olympic Football event, featuring various Australian soccer or Football players that were to be held at the MCG during the September 2000 Sydney Olympic games. Has the Metcard logo on it, along with other Metcard, information. All tickets have been used for various fares, along with 3AW radio station, ticket numbers and dates. Three copies of each retained from a larger collection. .1 - Marco Bresciarro .2 - Daniel Allsopp .3 - Kasey Wehrman .4 - Nick Rizzo .5 - Brett Emerton .6 - Amy Wilson See Reg Item 2512.2 for an event poster.trams, tramways, tickets, metlink, metcard, olympics, football

Illustration from page 49 of "Australia To-Day", special number of "The Australasian Traveller" - December 10, 1914. Titled "Australian Metropolitan Thoroughfares". No. 1 Features a NSW Government photo of circular Quay Sydney with a number of trams in the photo and the ferry terminal buildings. No. 2 - features a photo of Collins St at Elizabeth St looking east with many cable trams, horse drawn vehicles and pedestrians. shows the building at the intersection. Gives the population of Sydney and Melbourne at the end of 1913. On the rear of the sheet has an article on the West Australian and the Western Mail newspaper.trams, tramways, collins st, cable trams, melbourne, sydney

Magazine - five Gestener duplication sheets - titled "Tram Tracks - Vol 1 - No. 3 - July 1946" - the Journal of Association of Victorian Tramway Enthusiasts. Has notes on the PCC car, Glenhuntly depot tour, construction of the Latrobe St tram line, C class 36 "dog car", use of T class cars, W3 class trams, U206, Ballarat 16, notes from other cities, Sydney, notes on VR tramcars and details of the Association.trams, tramways, melbourne, t class, w3 class, vr trams, glenhuntly tram depot

Postcard - photo of Chapel St Prahran looking south along Chapel St towards the intersection with Commercial Road with the Jacob Read drapery business or the Charles Moore and Company department store - now the Pran Central complex in the view. Has a number of horse drawn vehicles, some motor cars and a cable tram in the view. Divided back with spaces for Correspondence, address and stamp. Stamp area has "Printed in county of Saxony" and number 3949 in bottom right hand corner. Published by Valentines & Sons Publishing Co. Melbourne and Sydney.trams, tramways, cable trams, commercial rd, malvern rd, chapel st, horse drawn vehicle

Set of papers, handwritten concerning the development and timing of the "Coburg Tramway system" - about 34 sheets by the Melbourne Brunswick Coburg Tramways Trust. Prepared largely by H. S. McComb, with notes dates, depot, track layout, lengths, the Act, dates and calculations, curves, details of depot, track layouts, intersections and the interface with the cable tram at Queensberry and Swanston Streets. See Reg Item 2035 for part 2, further maps and details of the cable tram interface at Queensberry St. Items 2034 and 2034 within box 72.3 in a brown folder marked "MB&CTT" in red pencil.trams, tramways, mbctt, coburg, brunswick, opening, cable trams, queensberry, madeline st, moreland rd, sydney rd

Set of papers, handwritten concerning the development and timing of the "Coburg Tramway system" - 9 sheets by the Melbourne Brunswick Coburg Tramways Trust. Prepared largely by H. S. McComb, with notes dates, depot, track layout, lengths, the Act, dates and calculations, curves, details of depot, track layouts, intersections and extensive details of the interface with the cable tram at Queensberry and Swanston Streets. Items 2034 and 2034 within box 72.3 in a brown folder marked "MB&CTT" in red pencil.trams, tramways, mbctt, coburg, brunswick, opening, cable trams, queensberry, madeline st, moreland rd, sydney rd

Black and white photograph of tramcar 76 at Batman Avenue terminus in 1925. The tram is a single-truck California combination tram, one of 20 built for the P&MTT in 1915. The photo was taken at Batman Avenue in 1925 and shows a driver or conductor adjusting the trolley pole. The photo shows the Batman Ave terminus and Flinders St station in the background. Tram 76 was built in 1915 by the Meadow Manufacturing Co in Sydney for the Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust before transferring to the MMTB in 1920. The J-class tram was bought by the SECV in 1931 and moved to Ballarat as tram No. 19. It operated in Ballarat until it was transferred to Bendigo in 1960 as tram No. 7, operating as public transport until 1972. It is now in operating condition at the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria in Bendigo. Tram 76 has the destination of Chapel St. Tram 76 was allocated at the Glenhuntly depot as at 24 March 1928.trams, tramways, batman ave, pmtt, secv, ballarat, bendigo, shelters, chapel st, tram 76, j class, mmtb

Illustration - from an Australian magazine newspaper or journal titled "Types of Tramcars used in Australian Capital Cities", giving 7 images of tramcars. 1 - Adelaide F201 2 - Sydney O 1480 3 - Brisbane excursion car? 4 - Hobart 21 5 - Perth - large bogie tram 6 - Melbourne cable car set - outside Flinders St Station - North Carlton - St Kilda Beach 7 - MMTB - No. 125, route 18, Burwood destination, with conductor on a footboard. Source of the images unknown.trams, tramways, mmtb, melbourne, cable trams, flinders st, burwood, maximum traction, conductors, route 18, adelaide, sydney, hobart, perth, brisbane, north carlton, tram 125

Report - approximately 350 pages, with heavy card covers, leather corners and centre and spine titled with letters in gold block "Australian and New Zealand Tramways / Fourth Conference Sydney March 1934" and name "H. Stephenson" on front bottom edge. Perfect bound with glued end covers. Details the proceedings of the conference held from 19th to 23rd March 1934, attendees, papers, appendices. Covers all engineering, operations and technical aspects of Australian and NZ tramways. Attending were representatives from Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Dunedin, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney. Detailed table of contents, program and attendees.trams, tramways, conferences, sydney, tramways, equipment, rails, mmtb

Pamphlets - set of 2 printed in full colour on paper folded to DL size. .1 - "New Year's Eve 2013" - 8 fold, 2 half foldout - with a map showing fire works sites, locations, tram alterations, and how public transport could be used in the city. .2 - "Tram service during Melbourne Summer Festivals" - 4 fold, - issued 1/2016, detailing timetable alternations and service changes for Feb. and March - includes events - St Kilda Festival, White Night, Glenferrie Road Festival, Sydney Road festival and Moomba Parade. Has a calendar and maps. Also lists other major events and network upgrade and tram improvement works. Issued by Yarra Trams and the PTV.trams, tramways, events, melbourne, moomba, glenferrie rd, sydney rd, st kilda

Photograph of W2 249 painted in silver and blue for the silver Jubilee of Luna Park 1938. Tram has the destination of Moreland, route 15. The photo is taken at the intersection Fitzroy St and The Esplanade. There is a compulsory tram stop sign on the left side of the photo. Photo also in item 4601, TAP73. This view has not been cropped. Photo by either Peter Duckett or Ray Pearson. The tram is now owned by the Sydney Tramway Museum and was painted a burgundy colour to promote a heritage tram line in Canberra in 2001. See item 5602. Demonstrates a specially painted tram for a Luna Park event.Black and white photograph on Kodak Velox paper.trams, tramways, w2 class, tram 249, luna park, the esplandade

Written by Marc Fiddian, published by Galaxy Print & Design in 2002. Looks at the history of trams in Australia and New Zealand, the cities or towns that they were used in and their demise except for Melbourne. Records their revival in Sydney. Includes some notes on preservation and museums. Has a photo of cable cars in Chapel St Prahran with the Prahran Town Hall featuring on the front cover.Yields information about Australian Tramway cities.Book - "Australasia's Tramways" - A5 size, perfect bound 84 pages + card covers with an index, written by Marc Fiddian. Includes many photographs.trams, tramways, australia, new zealand, marc fiddian, chapel st

Flyer, distributed for a Rally on 17/6/2023 to protest/support accessible tram stops in Sydney Road on route 19. Has a drawing of W class tram 935 and people needing accessibility. Has the City of Merri-bek logo and the name of the organisation - "Sydney Rd Accessible Transport", email and QR code. The rally did take place. Yields information about a rally for accessible tram stops in Sydney Road Brunswick.Flyer - A5 single sided sheet full colour.tramways, sydney road, accessibility, rally, tram 935, tram stops

Photograph of the Victorian Tramways Football Association team for the Interstate Carnival in Sydney 1948 taken in front of a grandstand. Has 40 players and team officials in the photograph. Many of the officials are wearing VFTA hatbands, ties and pocket patches on their jackets. Photo by "Molba Sydney". List of names" Back Row: J Ahern, F Forsey, W Crawford, J Blizzard, A Tewendale, W Warner L Dowley Second Row: K Hordern, J Stapleton, A Taber, J Broadbent, L Comley, J Rowe, A Hosking, S Armstrong Third Row: S Boardman, A Borlase, K Hudswell, H Daley, B Parsons, R. Blackwood, T Westhead, L O'Brien, J Evans, A Hays, W Burgoyne Seated: A Sharpley, L Montgomery (Asst Manager), A Charter, W Luff (Captain), R Hodder (Manager), A Allen (Vice Capt), A Cruishank, C Peterson (President), A Fogarty In Front: F McCarthy, A Mills, R Ryan, J Winkle, A FisherYields information about the members of the 1948 Victorian Tramway Football Club interstate team.Photograph mounted on heavy card with printed titles and names.Handwritten note in pencil pointing to "Clive" Peterson.tramways, sports, football, vftc, carnival, sydney

Hat band worn by officials and team members when representing the Association at interstate matches. Two types - see item 6947 for an interwoven letter type as worn in item 6946 at the 1948 Sydney carnival. Most likely made by the MMTB Uniform clothing shop at Hawthorn.Yields information about the insignia worn by the VFTA.Navy blue cotton band with metal clips at either end with the letters "V F T A" machine sewn with a white backing strip on the rear.tramways, sports, football, vftc, hatbands, uniforms

Hat band worn by officials and team members when representing the Association at interstate matches. Two types - see item 6946 for a separate letter type. This combined letter or interwoven into a symbol was worn in item 6946 at the 1948 Sydney carnival. Most likely made by the MMTB Uniform clothing shop at Hawthorn.Yields information about the insignia worn by the VFTA.Navy blue cotton band with the letters "V F T A" interwoven or combined into a symbol, machine sewn with a white backing strip on the rear.tramways, sports, football, vftc, hatbands, uniforms

W2 447 was one of the trams featured in the interior of the "Canberra Tradesmen's Union Club" which had a collection of trams from Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne in their premises. Special membership card or Ticket - with W2 447 on one side advertising the club and an MMTB 1d ticket on the other,. Demonstrates some of the items of a tramway nature from the Canberra Tradesmen's ClubBlue light weight card printed as a "Special Member" cardcanberra tradesmen club, canberra, hotels, preserved trams, w2 class, tram 447

Newspaper or magazine cutting from an unknown gloss paper titled "How SCATS can adapt", about the use of the system - Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (from VicRoads Website 7/7/2019), noting the use for the system for traffic control in Melbourne, including tram priority. Has a photo of trams 883 and 850 at the Sturt St Arts Centre intersection with the Shrine in the background. The VicRoads website notes that it was adopted in 1980. On the rear has a photo of the Computer equipment being used and equipment. Notes the transponder fitted to the trams.trams, tramways, traffic control, sturt st, traffic lights

Newspaper cutting from The Age featuring a photo of the flying tram that was used at the opening of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 15/3/2006. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Commonwealth_Games_opening_ceremony - accessed 7/8/2019. Set of two cartoons featuring a Petty cartoon over the Sydney Opera House and Golding cartoon and ticket inspectors.trams, tramways, commonwealth games, cartoons, events, museum, ticket inspectors, w class

Set of two Report - carbon copy typed foolscap blue sheets, giving reports on tenders received from the Controller of Stores to the Deputy Chairman. .1 - "Tender 2161 - manufacture of two tramway tower waggon bodies" - dated 12/9/1960, proposed to award to Ansair Pty Ltd. (Did this occur - about the time the Sydney system closed and two tower wagon bodies without towers were obtained?) .2 - "Tender 2167 - reconditioning of ten tramcar roofs with plastic coating of "Nyolac" - Liquid Polyurethane. Only one tender received from Austral Floors. Dated 5/10/1960.trams, tramways, tower wagon, tramcar bodies, maintenance, overhead

Agfa Colour slide, cardboard, by Keith Caldwell dated 13-3-1962 of ex Sydney Scrubber climbing the Elizabeth St hill to the Haymarket roundabout. Tram in the green colour scheme. Has in the background the F. Dank's hardware merchants building in the background.In ink "Car 11 13-3-1962"trams, tramways, elizabeth st, scrubber tram, work trams