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Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Instruction, Swanston Trams, "Emergency Braking Procedures for Tramcars - Two motor Single Truck Trams", "Emergency Braking Procedure for Tramcars - Four motor Bogie Cars (L & W Class trams)", "Tramcar Braking - The Air system", "Brake Valve with Sanding Feature" - (Birney 217), "Malvern Depot Training" - Z1 - Z2 - Z3 class, "Fault Finding", 2000, April 1999
... Brakes ...Set of 5 instructions prepared for use at Malvern Depot c2000, regarding use of trams - printed on A4 sheets. .1 - "Emergency Braking Procedures for Tramcars - Two motor Single Truck Trams" - 1 page .2 - "Emergency Braking Procedure for Tramcars - Four motor Bogie Cars (L & W Class trams) .3 - "Tramcar Braking - The Air system" .4 - "Brake Valve with Sanding Feature" - (Birney 217) .5 - "Malvern Depot Training" - Z1 - Z2 - Z3 class - 4 pages. .6 - "Fault Finding" - covers Z and W class trams. .7 - "Tram driver fault finding & Braking assessment B and Z class" - assessment sheet and pages 1 to 9 of 13 original sheets, four missing, dated 9-4-1999 - added 17/6/2019.trams, tramways, swanston trams, brakes, emergency, safety, drivers, malvern depot, z class, w class, x class, b class -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Instruction, Westinghouse Traction Brake Co, "Westinghouse - T5001-Straight-Air Brake Equipment", Mar. 1923
... Brakes ...Instruction - 48 pages + light brown card cover centre stapled with cloth binding on outer edge + 13 fold out drawings inside the rear cover, titled "Westinghouse - T5001-1 Straight-Air Brake Equipment". Dated March 1923. Has a table of contents, outlines the rules of operating brake equipment fitted to tramcars, the SM3, SX2 brake valve, locomotive straight air, installation piping, wiring, maintenance - piston travel, lubrication, car tests, hints to Motormen and Conductors and General Hints. Schedule for SM-1 and featherweight equipment. Includes instructions on compressors, air intakes, valves, cylinders and governors.On front cover in ink "Mr McLaren"trams, tramways, electrical engineering, electrical equipment, westinghouse, air compressors, brakes, instructions, maintenance -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - PCC 980 - releasing drum brakes, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 8/1960
... brakes ...The photograph shows the procedure for releasing the drum brakes on PCC tram 980 and where the brace (spanner) is located on the tram. Dated 24/8/1960.Demonstrates the methodology of releasing the drum brakes on a PCC car.Photograph - black and whiteHas MMTB stamp on rear and number P25/1/248 in ink.trams, tram 980, brakes, pcc class, tramways, mmtb, st. louis b3 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Drawing, Victorian Railways, Bogie Car wiring diagram, c1950's
... Brakes ...Set of four drawings of electrical and brake equipment on VR Tramcars. .1 - No. 1 - Bogie car wiring diagram - shows all equipment including lights, compressors, motors and switches. Has a different lighting circuit for the 52 to 54. 4 copies held. .2 - No. 2 - Air and Brake Equipment (Excluding one-man car) - shows all equipment including wipers, conductor's brake valve .3 - No. 3 - Pneumatic Equipment for One-man car - shows all equipment including door engines, emergency valves, emergency reservoirs, door valves and links to controller. .4 - No. 4 - Pneumatic Door Equipment - cars 52 to 54 - including door controller valve positions.trams, tramways, vr class tramcars, victorian railways, brakes, wiring diagrams, one man trams, air compressors -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Extract of SEC systems meeting minutes, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), Tramway Conference, 1957
... brakes ...Extract from the 1957? Tramway Conference of the two tramway systems - notes on Brinell hardness of brake shoes, rails and wheels, tyres on hand, tram 32 and second life tyres, brake adjustment and settings, slack adjusters, renewable cups and steam cleaner use. Date based on two references to 1957 in the sheet.Demonstrates minutes of the 1957 Tramway Conference.Typed foolscap page of a carbon copy document - page 2 - other pages missing.Has three sets of notes in ink written in.tramcars, tramways, bogie trams, pony axles, costs, tramcar maintenance, brake shoes, tram 32, brakes -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Air Brake Gauge
Tramcar air brake gauge, showing pressure in the brake pipe? main reservoir? ballarat, tramcars, air brake, gauge -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book, The Westinghouse Brake
The Westinghouse Brake A Refernce Book Publisher: The Westinghouse Brake Company Limited Date: 1892flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, the westinghouse brake, book, great ocean road -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Instruction, Safety Car Devices Co. St Louis, "Instruction Pamphlet S-100, Air Brake and Safety Car Control Equipment", Jul. 1924
... Brakes ...Instruction - 108 pages + 9 fold out drawings glued and stapled in at the rear + card covers with red cloth binding, rounded right hand edges, centre stapled. Titled "Instruction Pamphlet S-100, Air Brake and Safety Car Control Equipment", published July 1924 by the Safety Car Devices Co. St Louis. Includes the M28 Brake valve. Describes in detail the rules for operation, parts, description, M28 Brake Valves, Maintenance, Practical car tests, hints, defects. The 9 drawings at the rear of the document give detail arrangements of the piping and control equipment. Book scanned into three sections. See also Reg Item 3513 for another similar document.on top of first page "C. Hodgson"trams, tramways, electrical engineering, electrical equipment, air compressors, brakes, instructions, maintenance, controllers -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Dray Brake Band, Horse Equipment
Drays were used to transport heavy materials such as farm products, building supplies, food. They were pulled by horses or bullocks. Drays were important for transportation in the Kiewa Valley.Made of timber and steel. The piece of wood contacts the axle hub to brake the dray. Part of a brake for a dray. It is missing the actuator that is needed for tightening the band to operate as a brake.drays, horses, bullocks -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "List of brake shoe type fitted to trams", 8/7/1963
... Brakes ...Typed report on the type of brake shoe fittings fitted to each tram as at 8/7/1963. The report lists each passenger tram from VR 52 to W71040, and what their status was if not in use - eg stored, sold, scrapped. The list excludes the early MMTB trams of A to V class. Works cars are not listed. Yields information about the status of the MMTB Passenger fleet in 1963 and the type of brake shoe types fitted to each.Document or report 5 foolscap sheets - carbon copytramways, tramcars, lists, scrapped trams, brakes -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Instruction, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Braking", Nov, 1950
Significant in being a sheet regarding tramcar braking systems and how considered at the time - 1950. No mention of sand in braking technique.Was contained within Reg Item 3519 in which located in the filing cabinet 8/2006. Small typed carbon copy instruction or "Notice to All Traffic Staff" titled "Braking", discussing the names of emergency brake. Notes air braked trams have on emergency brake only - the air brake. Stopping trams electrically is not regarded as brake equipment, and should not be used unless air brake is defective. Dated 24/11/1950. See Reg Item 271 and 3457 for later issues of instructions on the same matter.Initialled in ink by the Manager and a note in ink "please ??"trams, tramways, ballarat, secv instructions, braking, operations -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Drawing, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Automatic Brake operation charts", 1948
... brakes ...Charts 2, 3, 4 and 6 or drawings showing automatic brake operations for possibly Ballarat tram 26 which was trialled in Ballarat during 1948 See item 9894 for instructions and item 9891 for a memo regarding operations. Shows the various stages of operations. Charts 1 and 5 missing.Demonstrates SECV document and chart of operations about the trialing of automatic braking systems on tram 26.Set of four foolscap sheets - dye line prints, marked up in red ink.tramways, ballarat, brakes, tramcar brakes, braking, tram 26 -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Administrative record - Form, Hawthorn Tramways Trust (HTT), "Pitmans report card", c1919
... Brakes ...Hawthorn Tramways Trust form No. 199, recording the inspection, greasing and brake equipment of tramcars. Printed for cars 1 to 32 with items to be inspected or changed listed. Has been marked up in pencil for changes to the layout, possibly at the time of the takeover of the Trust by the MMTB and the formation of the Eastern System. Has a space for remarks on the rear. Note the "speed alarms" entry.Demonstrates an HTT tramcar maintenance form.Printed form on pink card - form No. 99tramways, htt, forms, tramcar maintenance, tramcar inspection, brakes -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Instruction, General Electric, "General Electric - Straight Air Brake Equipment Instruction Book 84564A", Sep. 1919
... Brakes ...Instruction - 16 pages + brown covers, centre stapled, cloth binding on left hand side and two punched holes on left hand side, right hand side has rounded corners, titled "General Electric - Straight Air Brake Equipment Instruction Book 84564A", dated Sept. 1919. Includes instructions on compressors, air intakes, valves, cylinders and governors, safety valves, motorman valves, brake cylinders, rules for operating, emergency stops, sanding of rails and general issues. Has a list of company offices on the last page.trams, tramways, electrical engineering, electrical equipment, general electric, air compressors, brakes, instructions, maintenance -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Technical pamphlet/s, Westinghouse Brake Company of Australasia Limited and The Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Co. Ltd. of 82 York Road and Kings Cross London, "The Westinghouse Brake with Electro-Pneumatic Control", Dec. 1926
2285.1 - 12 page technical pamphlet (2 sheets of paper - pages 5 -10 formed as a concertina folded centre sheet) titled "Interlocked electo-pneumatic brake", published by Westinghouse Brake Company of Australasia Limited, December 1926. Manual D.P. 9. Stapled with two steel staples along fold. Describes in detail the electro-pneumatic brake system as used on Sydney Suburban trains, complete with diagrams, brake valve operation, magnet valve and isolating cock switch. 2285.2 - Six page technical pamphlet, titled "The Westinghouse Brake with electro-pneumatic control", published by Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co. 1915. Pages 3 and 4 have been tipped in the cover sheet. Describes standard brake equipment for use with electric trains and electro pneumatic control over the brakes. Gives details of house the brake valve (No. 18 EP) operates. Scanned to the COTMA Website 4-10-2015."Colin Rutledge" stamped on top of page 1.trams, tramways, westinghouse, electric trains, electro - pneumatic brakes, sydney suburban trains -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Automatic Braking", 25/10/1948
... brakes ...Document - memo from Branch Tramways Superintendent to Acting Branch Manger, titled "Automatic Braking" - providing the history of the fitment of this system to tram 26 in Ballarat, placed in service 24/6/1948, experience, alternative recommendations, union complaints, arguments for and against, costs, and a summary. Dated 25/10/1948. See item 9894 for instructions and item 9892 for diagrams.Demonstrates SECV document about the trialing of automatic braking systems on tram 26.Typed carbon copy - four Foolscap sheets.tramways, ballarat, brakes, tramcar brakes, braking, union, tram 26 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Brake shoe
Tramcar Brake Shoe in worn and broken conditionballarat, tramcar, brake shoe -
Orbost & District Historical Society
brake/lifting mechanism, first half 20th century
An iron brake mechanism possibly from a farm implement. It has been painted red.It was probably used to control height on braking when attached to an agricultural implement. farm-implement agriculture -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Braking Tests - Car No. 928 - July 1952 - Emergency Brake Procedure", 12/08/1952 12:00:00 AM
Report on SW6 class tramcar No. 928, 28 pages including appendices "Braking Tests - Car No. 928 - July 1952 - Emergency Brake Procedure". Dated 12th August 1952. Report looks at the impact of using the 1st Emergency brake and the 4th Emergency Brake, stopping distances, skidding and instruction to drivers. Document bound within a manila cover with fold back clips and clear adhesive tape.trams, tramways, preston workshops, reports, tramcars, sw6 class, braking, tram 928 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BADHAM COLLECTION: WESTINGHOUSE AUTOMATIC BRAKE INSTRUCTION BOOK
Brown cover book: contains details instruction of The Westinghouse Automatic Brake (64 pages). The context cover pictures demonstrations of the brake parts and operation procedures in very details.books, technical, railways, book, books, trains, railways, engines, locomotives, badham collection, collection, collections -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Brake Tests - Air Brake, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1941
... brakes ...Document detailing brake testing done with Ballarat trams 24 and 20 dated 30/1/1941 and a summary sheet dated 25/6/1947. Gives stopping distances for various speeds on level track and a grade. Has notes on the skid distance. These were appended to a report. All documents are copies of the originals typed 15/6/1954. See item 9868 for a Geelong report.Demonstrates SECV report about testing brakes on Ballarat trams.Typed copy - three Foolscap sheetstramways, ballarat, brakes, tram 24, tram 20, reports, tramcar brakes, brake testing -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Report, F R Thompson", "PCC - by F R Thompson", early 1960's
Report - four pages - stapled in top left hand corner, titled "PCC - by F R Thompson", describing the control systems in a PCC tramcar, eg No. 980. Refers to drawings that are not included. Describes the control circuits, car drive, equipment, electric brakes, emergency dynamic braking, and service braking.trams, tramways, tramcars, controllers, electrical engineering, electrical equipment, motors, electric traction, pcc -
Gippsland Vehicle Collection
Book, FLOYD CLYMER, The FORD OWNER'S complete HANDBOOK of Repair and Maintenance, 1949 (exact)
... brakes ...This Ford Handbook is in good condition. This book covers at least 97% of the instructions necessary for servicing the 1950 and 1951 models.Repair and Maintenance book covering all models of ford including V8, "60" and FORD SIXOn page 106 of the handbook there is, in handwriting, CABLE OPERATED BRAKES, Spring, Colour & Position Guide. Hand drawn picture with details marking the layout and details of the spring, colour & position.electrical, steering, ford, engine, transmission, accessory, ford owners, car repair, v8, 60, ford six, repair and maintenance, ford engine, clutch, body, chassis, shockers, cooling system, fuel system, suspension, rear, axle, brakes, shock absorbers, rear axle -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Booklet, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Statistical Information re Electric Services", June 1955
... brakes ...Booklet titled "Statistical Information re Electric Services" - dated June 1955, providing details of the MMTB tram system, tramcars, tramcar description, wheels and brakes, electricity supply, per way or track, and East Preston Depot. It would have been issued at the time of the opening of the Bourke St lines. There are number of corrections marked in the booklet in ink.Demonstrates a MMTB publication giving statistics of the tramway system in 1955. Booklet - manila card covers, stapled on left hand side containing 6 duplicated sheets. Two copies held.m&mtb, statistics, track, electrical engineering, overhead, tramcars, wheels, brakes, east preston depot -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BASIL MILLER COLLECTION: PRESIDENTS CONFERENCE CAR CLOSE UP
Black and white photo of tram No 980 wheels and braking mechanism.basil miller, bendigo trams -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Instruction, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "MMTB Tram Car Braking on Greasy Rails", 1/05/1975 12:00:00 AM
Instruction - printed on both sides of a sheet cut to fit into Rule Books, titled "MMTB Tram Car Braking on Greasy Rails", signed by R. C. Drummond Traffic Manager 1/5/1975. Gives instructions about braking, use of sand, conditions, skidding, wheel flats and braking distances. See also 3652.1 for another copy.trams, tramways, drivers, braking, instructions, tramcars, training -
Geelong Cycling Club
Road Cycle, 1920
This is a Bluebird road cycle made in 1920 by Alan Lowndes from Modewarre. It was purchased by Ray Kinleyside (secretary of the Geelong West Amateur Cycling Club) after WWi in the 1920s.An example of road cycles commonly used in the 1920s.Unrestored road cycle painted red. It is a single brake, single speed bicycle. alan lowndes; ray kinleyside; bluebird road cycle; geelong west amateur cycling club; geelong cycling club; road cycle; -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Drawing - air brake system on a Melbourne tram using a self lapping brake and relay valve, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), 1960's?
Drawing of the air brake system on a Melbourne tram using a self lapping brake and relay valve - the charging and release positions. 89.1 - shows the relay valve in the exhaust position 89.2 - shows the valve in the applied position. Has been drawn in ink on a piece of paper, and the coloured red or green as necessary to show the various positions and state of the valves, reservoir, brake cylinder and pipes.trams, tramways, mmtb, braking, brake valves -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Technical pamphlet/s, Knorr Brake Co. London, "Knorr Quick Action Automatic Air Brake", c1900
Technical pamphlet, titled ""Knorr Quick Action Automatic Air Brake" consisting of printed cover (folded sheet, printing only on front cover and two inset folded sheets plate III and plate IV with technical notes and diagrams of the brakes on locomotives and carriages. Details the action of the brakes, operation and equipment. Published by the Knorr Brake Co. of London, Steam Railway Dept. Sheets have been punch with two holes along the left hand edge - probably at a later date. Scanned to the COTMA Website 4-10-2015."Colin Rutledge" stamped on top of page 1.trams, tramways, knorr brakes, train brake systems -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Instruction, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Brake Equipment - Q&A", July 1961?
Significant in being a detailed set of instructions for the tramcar braking system, emergency braking, what to do if things went wrong. Relates to the driver training system at the time.Four pages, foolscap, duplicated, titled "Tramcar Braking - Questions & Answers" to the operation of a tramcar braking system - 37 questions. See Reg Item 5372 for another copy and scanned images. Image of item added 22/10/2013trams, tramways, secv, instructions, tram brakes