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Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Flinders St - rail - bus tickets - set of 10, Victorian Railways (VR), 1960 to 1970s
... buses ...Following the closure of the St Kilda Brighton Electric Street Railway (tramway), the Victorian Railways continued to sell through rail and bus tickets from Flinders St Station. This set of 10 are samples of these issued by the various booking offices or wiindows at Flinders St station. All are single journey tickets with the name of the VR and the Brighton - St Kilda Bus Lines Pty Ltd on the ticket with conditions of travel on the rear. 1 - Inkerman St - No. 17494 2 - Inkerman St - No. 5545 (date stamped 3 May 1970 3 - Bay St - No. 0443 4 - Ackland St - No. 0559 5 - Head St - No. 21182 6 - Park St - No. 5973 7 - Park St - No. 12191 8 - Milton St - No. 1736 9 - Milton St - No. 10983 10 - Beach Ave - No 4764Demonstrates a railway ticketting system that was used on buses and railwaysSet of 10 Edmondson style railway tickets.railways, tickets, buses, victorian railways, st kilda, brighton - st kilda bus lines -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Photograph, Mitcham Railway Station
Coloured photograph of a Venture bus pulling into the bus stop on the south side of Mitcham Railway Station.Behind the bus is a building which is the start of a large industrial estate that runs alongside the railway line to Rooks Road, Nunawading - 2012mitcham railway station, transport -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, Its Days now numbered, 1940
... Buses ...Newspaper Clipping - from a Melbourne newspaper of a cable car set at the intersection of Spring and Bourke St with the caption - "Its Days now numbered", reporting on the soon to close Bourke St cable line and replaced by modern buses. Includes a safety zone sign. Newspaper not known at the time of cataloguing or the date.trams, tramways, bourke st, cable trams, closure, buses -
Churchill Island Heritage Farm
Photograph - Photograph of bus being moved by a front loader
Churchill Island has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century. Photograph of the Phillip Island Bus Tours with two people standing in the bus and a yellow Ford 750 front loader lifting the frontcatalogue number on reverse in pencilchurchill island, photograph -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Photograph/s, Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), c1990
Official Metropolitan Transit Photograph of MAN Bus No. 182. Taken at Northcote Bus Depot. Registration MYD 182 Taken c1990.On rear in pencil "M.A.N."melbourne, metropolitan transit, man bus -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - KANGAROO FLAT BUSLINES PTY. LTD. BUS TIME TABLE
Kangaroo Flat Buslines Pty. Ltd. bus services bus timetable Bi-fold card ewith adverts for local businessesArthur Hocking Print, Bendigo -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Ticket Blocks, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Railway Check Ticket", c1970s
... Buses ...Block of tickets - paper printed paper stapled too a cardboard back with a top retaining piece, "Railway Check Tickets" printed in black on off white paper with two red diagonal stripes, numbers B879814 to 879999. Used for passengers who travelled by tram or bus on railway issued tickets. Has the terms of use printed on the tickets, only available on Sundays. Issued by the MMTB. The only line that these were used on was Route 19, for the Upfield line. See Reg Item 2371 for a timetable where tram/bus used only on Sundays and 2378 when it was in the evenings Monday to Saturday and all day Sunday.trams, tramways, upfield, tram replacement, buses, railways, tickets -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Functional object - Run Number Plate, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), North Fitzroy and Footscray, 1960's to 1970's
... Buses ...Set of 4 run number plates used at North Fitzroy Tram/bus and Footscray depot - plastic sheets off white or cream painted with the letter N of F (to indicate the depot) and a number to indicate the run number. Would have been used on buses as well. Letters in either red or black, some plates have a single hole in the top. Used to identify the depot and "run number" or timetable that the tram was running on, two in each tram, to enable monitoring by inspectors and crews. Question - were these used on Z class trams prior to the introduction the AVM system rather than metal run numbers. Note AVM system introduced mid to late 1980's. .1 - N61 - red letter .2 - N172 - AVM plate .3 - N68 - black letter .4 - F1 - AVMtrams, tramways, mmtb, timetables, buses, trams, inspectors, north fitzroy, footscray, buses, avm -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police car)
Bus parked on street. Circa 1969police vehicles; wireless patrol; motor transport branch; motor transport section; -
Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - Sepia, C 1931
For information on Grampian House, refer to "Victoria's Wonderland" pp. 69-75.Grampians House with arbour and bus in foregroundagfaaccommodation, guesthouses, grampian house -
Melbourne Legacy
Photograph, Legatee function
A group of Legatees on their way to a conference. The year is unknown. The photo was in a scrapbook of photos spanning 1983 to 1991.A record of Legatees travelling together to a conference. Colour photo of Legatees beside a bus.legatee, conference, legatee event -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Photograph - Photograph, Sepia, Starting for Christmas picnic, 25 December 1913
The sailors, officers and Reverend Gurney Goldsmith (centre) were picked up from the Siddeley Street mission by two double deck motorbuses. On the buses is written: "Motor Tyre, The place for tyre, 400-3-5 Swanston Street, Melbourne - Red Cross Hospital - The Globe". The Mission flag and the Union Jack are brought with the men to the St John's College, St Kilda East. The photograph appears in the Annual Report 1913. In the Age we could read: "SAILORS' PICNIC. The seamen from ships in port, were hospitably entertained on Christmas day by friends of the Victoria Missions to Seamen. The day was spent at St. John's College, East St. Kilda, by invitation of the warden and Mrs. Hart. The sailors enjoyed the treat, and entered heartily into the sports held during the afternoon. The evening was spent at the institute on the Australian wharf when every sailor received a Christmas' present from 'the brig." The photograph was used in the "Jottings fro our log" quarterly publication of the Mission in 1916.Sepia photograph with a thin black frame depicting seamen gathering in front of the Central Institute, Siddeley Street, where buses are waiting for them to take them on an outing.Handwritten at the back in pencil: "168" / Starting for Christmas picnic Handwritten in blue ink: "8" Handwritten twice in blue ink: 1914? at the top and 1914 at the bottom.siddeley street institute, ww1, christmas, transport, rev gurney goldsmith, flag, red cross, the globe, union jack, motorbus, 1913, xmas -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Set of 11 Black & White Photograph/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 1964
... Buses ...Series of 9 black and white photographs of the construction of the new bus depot at Doncaster c1964. Items .1 to .9 show the earthworks, nearby factories and skylines. The style of the equipment used at the time is shown. Has a Craven A billboard. Items 10 and 11 are two sheets of paper giving details and some captions for the photographs.trams, tramways, buses, doncaster depot, construction, contracts -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Notice, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Notice to Conductors", Jul. 1979
... Buses ...Notice or Instruction to Conductors, duplicated foolscap sheet, No. D 2917, about the change over of ticket machines on buses from printing a cash fare value to a letter code. Gives a list of the transfer points that these tickets could be offered, and the value of the code letters. Signed by R. C. Drummond, 25/7/1979.trams, tramways, ticket machines, buses, tickets, transfer tickets -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, 1960's?
... Buses ...Black and white photograph of the MMTB Chairman Robert Risson receiving a vaccination injection on the MMTB medical bus. Has possibly Mr K. J. Brennan on the left hand side. Note the size of needle! Has a doctor and nurse in the photograph as well. This photograph has been published elsewhere. Two copies held.On rear of 2nd copy is "Risson" and "Brennan" in ink.trams, tramways, personnel, medical, mmtb, buses -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - B&W print of donated negative - set of 9, Ron E. Fluck
Black and white print of a donated negatives. Print made 8/1998. Various photos taken by Ron Fluck or other members of the Fluck family of Davis Buses while on tour during the late 1940's or the early 1950's. 885.1 - Davis bus MO 031 and bus owned by R.Dunn of Clunes - two Bedford buses at Sister Rocks Stawell, 1-10-1950. 885.2 - Davis bus MO 031by Shell petrol bowser, Halls Gap, Grampians - 1-10-1950. 885.3 - Davis bus RL726, Ford, at Casterton with Glenelg Hotel in background, 29-1-1951 885.4 - Davis bus NK 023, Cadillac bus, with Ron Fluck driver - photo by J.A.Fluck - at Queenscliff - 4-1-1953. 885.5 - Davis bus NK 023, as above, with J.A.Fluck standing in doorway. - 4-1-1953. 885.6 - Davis bus RL726, Ford, at Nelson, Vic. 28-1-1951. 885.7 - No entry 885.8 - Davis bus, NK023, Cadillac - Mt Dandenong, 27-8-1950 885.9 - Davis bus NK023, Cadillac - Sassafras - 27-8-1950. All images replaced by high res scan of the negatives 18/1/2019/tramways, trams, davis bus lines, ron fluck, casterton, sassafras -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Black & White, AEC Mark III Bus 512 Flinders St, c1970
... buses ...Black and white print of AEC Mk III No 512 in Flinders Street. with the station building behind. Has route number 246, Fishermens Bend via Ingles St. Photo taken Circa 1970 as the bus has the three number route number but is not fitted with electric turn light indicators. Comeng Body, entered service 1952/53, "Bob-Tailed" to one-man configuration in the 1962/63 conversion batch. Yields information about Flinders St buses serving Fishermens Bend.Black and White photograph - printed on plain papertramways, trams, mmtb, buses, bus 512 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - List, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "MMTB Route Numbers - Tram Routes", late 1960's?
... Buses ...Two page Gestetner printed list, foolscap sheets titled "MMTB Route Numbers - Tram Routes", giving the list of route numbers for all numbers to 99 including A to E, showing where numbers and most letters not used at the time. Does not give bus route numbers. Used up to the renumbering of Oct. 1970. For the route listing that replaced this list see Record Number 360. See Electric Traction - Oct 1955 and August 1954 for previous lists as well. A copy of the Oct list is shown in images i3 and i4. Second copy from donation of Harry Jackson 8/2/2019, added. This copy included two sheets of bus route numbers. Added as images i5.trams, tramways, mmtb, route numbers, routes, buses -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Pamphlet, Metlink, "Customer feedback for public transport", c2010
... buses ...Pamphlet - "Customer feedback for public transport" - with an image of Southern Cross station, a D class tram and a bus on the front. Details the feedback process used by viclink or metlink, including responses, the public transport ombudsman and the methods. Provides the contact numbers.Yields information about customer feedback or complaints regarding Victorian public transport.Pamphlet - DL - four fold, full colourtrams, public transport, feedback, complaints, viclink, metlink, buses, customers -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Railway Station Stawell
Stawell Railway StationStawell Bus Station Sign. VLine Sign and othe rsigns visable but unreadablestawell railways transport -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "First Ballarat Tram Route closes Today", Aug. 1971
... Buses ...Yields information about the extent of the Ballarat bus services that replaced the tram services in 1971 and their extent.Newspaper cuttings, composite, glued to a ruled or line foolscap sheet with the heading ""First Ballarat Tram Route closes Today", the Courier banner Monday 23/8/1971 (the day after the actual first closure) and a map or advertisement authorised by the Transport Regulation Board of the Ballarat bus routes, details, section points and detailed description of six routes. Would appear to have been compiled from at least two issues of The Courier, possibly by Tom Murray.ballarat, buses, bus routes, map -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Ephemera - Timetable, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "New Bus services Footscray - Sunshine and Footscray - Moonee Ponds", Original 1936
... Buses ...Set of thee A4 sheets from photocopies collected by Keith Kings about the provision of bus services from Footscray, with services commencing 6/12/1936. Details the timetable for services from Footscray - Sunshine and Footscray - Moonee Ponds via either Maribyrnong Road or Ascot Vale Road. Includes a map and a magazine or newspaper item.trams, tramways, footscray, buses, moonee ponds, sunshine -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Manual, MAN, "MAN Maintenance recommendations 1985", Jul. 1985
... Buses ...Set of two manuals for MAN buses: .1 - MAN Maintenance recommendations 1985 - 25 A4 pages, landscape stapled in the top left hand corner - issued 7/1985. Photocopied from a MAN book. .2 - Chart of MAN recommended fuels and lubricants - 2 A4 sheets, stapled in the top left hand corner.Has "MAN" in ink on top edge.trams, tramways, buses, maintenance, man, manual -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s, Dave Simpson, tram 21 at Golden Square, late 1960's early 1970's
... Buses ...One 35mm slides - AGFA dark blue / white plastic mounts of tram 21 at Golden Square with the driver changing the pole. Has Billy Roddas Golden Square Hotel in the background with Carlton Draught and Victoria Bitter adverts. In the photo is a bus with the destination of Inglewood. tramways, trams, golden square, buses, hotels, crews, drivers, tram 21 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "Introduction of bus services after 8 pm and on weekends", Jan 1993
... buses ...Document or memo from the Director of Passenger Services Division to staff regarding the announcement by the Minister for Public Transport Alan Brown about the introduction of bus services to replace tram services on some routes after 8 pm. This caused considerable concern and industrial issues. Dated 6/1/1993. See also items 3049, 3052 (closure of route 82), and 5498.Yields information the 1993 proposal to replace trams with buses on some routes in the evening and weekends.Document or memo - single A4 sheetptc, tramways, buses, bus replacement, tram replacement, closure -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, The Courier, Ballarat, Book review "Tram ride to success", 24/4/2022
Book review from The Courier, titled "Tram ride to success", reviewing a book "The Promise of Gold and its results" written by David Griffiths. Looks at the life and work of John Garibaldi Roberts a supporter of the Arts and Chief Accountant of the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Co (MTOCo) and later the manager of the cable tram system for the MMTB. He retired in 1923. Has photos of the family, John at his work desk in 1910 and the directors of the MTOCo. Item written by Caleb Cluff of The Courier. One of Roberts guests was C J Dennis, who wrote Songs of the Sentimental bloke" while staying at Roberts place in the Dandenongs which had been formed from disused horse buses. Yields information about J G Roberts, a support of the Arts and a senior tramway manager.Newspaper cutting from The Courier, Ballarat, 24/4/2021 titled Book review "Tram ride to success" and photo provided of C J Dennis inside one of the horse buses on Robert's Dandenong "Sunnyside" property.mtoco, j g roberts, chief accountant, c j dennis, sunnyside -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Specification, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "4-5 Ton Chassis for motor bus breakdown truck", 1945
... buses ...The document details the tender conditions, specification, schedules for both the vehicle and tender - for a "4-5 Ton Chassis for motor bus breakdown truck". Notes that the existing truck's crane and towing gear would be removed from the existing truck and fitted to this new vehicle. Tenders were to close on 2/7/1945.Yields information about the MMTB breakdown truck for buses.Document - 3 Foolscap sheets - duplicated, stapled in top left hand corner.mmtb, tramways, contracts, purchases, workshops, buses, breakdowns -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police car)
Buses in Russell Street garage. Circa 1969police vehicles; motor transport branch; motor transport section; russell street -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police car)
Bedford bus, side view. Circa 1965police vehicles; motor transport branch; motor transport section; bedford bus -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Mr T. Brockell, n.d
Note on the Vermont bus service and its origin.Note on the Vermont bus service and its origin.Note on the Vermont bus service and its origin.armstrong, norman, brockell, tom, willis and brockell bus service, willis, jim, willis charles l, courtney, lucy, mitcham - vermont bus service