Colour postcard, H&B series, No. 6 of Collins St Melbourne looking west from near Exhibition St Has the Independent Church, Scots Church and Georges in the view along with the Town Hall. Tram has the destination of Spring St. Photo c1910Yields information about the view along Collins St from near Exhibition St.Postcard - colour with divided backIn pencil on rear "28/5/1987"trams, tramways, cable trams, collins st, scots church, independent church

Timetables - provides information on fare sections and a route map. 1 - Routes 1, 2 & 4 - South Melbourne - City - July 1984 2 - Route 1 & 21 - East Coburg - City August 1983 3 - Route 5 and 35 - Malvern Burke Road - July 1984 4 - Route 3 and 377 - East Malvern (Darling Road) and bus route on Sundays only - Jan. 1984 5 - Route 6, 36 and 7 - Glen Iris - July 1984 6 - Route 8 and 38 - Toorak - June 1984 7 - Route 9 and 14 - Northcote - June 1984 8 - Route 10 & 11, 13 - West Preston - May 1984 9 - Route 15 & 22 - Moreland - July 1983 10 - Route 15 & 16, 53 & 55 - St Kilda Beach - July 1983 11 - Route 19, 20 and 18 (MMTB) - North Coburg - Oct. 1982 12 - Route 42, 23, 44, 45 and 47 - Mont Albert - July 1984 13 - Route 48, 24, 40, 41 and 29 - North Balwyn - Nov. 1983 14 - Route 57, 357, 54, 60, 58 and 50 - West Maribyrnong - bus on Sundays - July 1984 15 - Route 64, 65, 62 and 61 - East Brighton - Jan. 1984 16 - Route 67, 37, and 66 - Carnegie - Jan. 1984 17 - route 70, 71 and 76 - Wattle Park - June 1984 18 - route 75, 74, 76 and 28 - East Burwood - JIan. 1984 19 - route 77, 78 and 79 - Prahran - North Richmond - July 1984 20 - route 82 and 223 - Footscray - Moonee Ponds and bus on Sundays and Saturdays - June 1984 21 - route 88, 14, 89 and 90 - East Preston - July 1983 22 - route 96, 95 and 97 - East Brunswick - July8 1984Yields information about Metropolitan Transit services during the mid 1980s.Set of 22 Metropolitan Transit tram timetables - multifold printed on yellow paper.timetable, metropolitan transit, the met, route 1, route 2, route 4, route 21, route 5, route 35, route 3, route 377, route 6, route 36, route 7, route 8, route 38, route 9, route 14, route 10, route 11, route 13, route 15, route 22, route 16, route 53, route 55, route 19, route 18, route 20, route 42, route 23, route 44, route 45, route 47, route 48, route 24, route 40, route 41, route 29, route 57, route 357, route 54, route 60, route 58, route 50, route 64, route 65, route 62, route 61, route 67, route 37, route 66, route 70, route 71, route 76, route 75, route 74, route 28, route 77, route 78, route 79, route 82, route 223, route 99, route 89, route 90, route 96, route 95, route 97

Newspaper clipping from The Age titled "Tram limit warning on Yarra Bridge". about structural issues with the Victoria St Richmond bridge. Notes the bridge was 127 years old at the time. VicRoads placed a tram restriction of one tram on the bridge at any one time, pending repairs. Has a photo of C class tram 3028, crossing the bridge, with scaffolding on one side. Item by Clay Lucas, photo by Joe Armao.Yields information about the Victoria St bridge, Kew and the need for repairs.Newspaper cutting from The Age, 28/7/2011tramways, bridges, victoria st, vicroads, repairs

Map of Melbourne's tramway system prepared for a German audience - as at 28-5-1992. Shows the track layout, crossovers, depots, route numbers, railway/tramway level crossings, terminus details, road names and a CBD insert. Prepared by P Sohns of Germany - dated 10-9-1992.Yields information Melbourne tramways and routes in 1992.Map - A2 sheet folded to A4.tramways, maps, melbourne, germany

Rose Series postcard No. P 1060, titled "Flinders St Railway station Melbourne," shows a W2 with white war time paint on the bumper bar crossing Swanston Street (Route 28?) with many cars and one horse-drawn cart in the view. On the est bound safety zone stop are several men in military uniforms. Note the eastbound safety zone stop on the east side of Swanston Street. Yields information about the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Sts.Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear.Has been used as a part letter to Ken Magor.trams, tramways, w2 class, flinders st station, flinders st, swanston st, safety zones, world war ii, princes bridge station

Certificate of Appreciation from the Mutual Benefit Society of the Employees of MTOCo to Mr T Edwin Wildie for services rendered to the Society. Dated Feb. 1914. Was signed by the President, Vice President, and secretary but these have faded. Comprises a group photograph of 28 men and at the bottom a portrait photo of Mr Wildie. Includes images of a cable tram set at Brunswick Depot, a horse-drawn Omnibus, the interior of an engine house and the construction of a cable tramway junction. Printed by Sands McDougal Pty Ltd.Has a close association with Mr Edwin Wildie and the MBSDigital image scanned from a framed certificate. The group photo was a physical insert into the rear of the certificate and then framed.group photos, cable trams, mutual funds, mutual benefit society, certificates

.1 - Run Number pressed metal plate with corners trimmed and rounded, top section partly folded with two slotted holes, painted with a yellow background and the letter "A" and number "28" painted in black, to give a Run Number Plate for South Melbourne Depot. Painted with the same detail on either side of the plate. .2 - Sheet of Masonite, with two holes on the top edge, and the letter A and numeral 5 from paper glued and taped onto the sheet of Masonite. Shows a temporary version.trams, tramways, mmtb, south melbourne depot, timetables

Digital image of a Pamphlet - A4 4 pages, titled ""Bridge Strengthening works High St Northcote"" for dates 28/11/2021 to 6/12/2021, published by Yarra Trams, gives details of bus replacement and tram stops. Pavement and foundation reconstruction of tracks over the Merri Creek. This section of track was subject to a speed restriction. Gives details of the work and photos of the bridge itself. See also Reg Item 6095.3 - for another pamphlettrams, tramways, yarra trams, high st, northcote, bridges, merri creek, trackwork

Black and white print of Z class tram No. 2 at Preston Workshops. Has the destination of West Preston Regent St with a route number "334". Photo possibly at the time around the trams entry to service on 28/6/1975. See reference.Yields information about Z class 2 around the time of its commissioning.Black and White photograph - printed on plain paper with photographers stamp on rear.Has stamp of David Menzies on rear. and in ink "Z 2 W'shops"tramways, trams, mmtb, z class, tram 2

Set of 10 Posters - printed on paper with an adhesive backing for: .1 - "Tram Diversion" for the Moomba Mile Footrace - 26/2/1982 .2 - Moomba Festival Float Parade - 8/3/1982 .3 - LaTrobe St Services - Easter Tuesday 13/4/1982 .4 - Doncaster Services - ditto .5 - Eastern Freeway Bus Services - Christmas - New Year - 27/12/82 to 3/1/83 .6 - William St Tram Services - ditto .7 - Doncaster Services - ditto 27/12/83 to 14/1/83 .8 - North Altona Services - not operating - ditto .9 - Special LaTrobe St Services - ditto - 29/12/82 to 14/1/1983 .10 - Chapel St Festival 28/11/1982 Signed by R C Drummond as Traffic Manager or D. E Lamb Assistant Traffic Managertrams, tramways, moomba, showgrounds, royal show, easter, operations, latrobe st, william st, doncaster, north altona, buses, chapel st, festival

Set of 6 Posters - printed on paper with an adhesive backing for: .1 - "Royal Show Parade" - 12/9/1983 .2 - Anzac Day - 25/4/1983 .3 - Special LaTrobe St services - 28/12/83 to 13/1/84 .4 - Eastern Freeway Bus Services - 26/12/83 to 2/1/84 .5 - Doncaster Services - 26/12/83 to 13/1/84 .6 - North Altona via Westgate - not operating - 26/12/83, 27/12 and 2/1/84 Signed by D. E Lamb Assistant Traffic Managertrams, tramways, moomba, showgrounds, royal show, easter, operations, latrobe st, william st, doncaster, north altona, buses

Set of 12 Posters - printed on paper with an adhesive backing for: .1 - Tram Diversions - Bourke St - Moomba Mile footrace 28/2/1986 .2 - Moomba Festival Float Parade - gives diversions and alterations - for 10/3/1986 .3 - Anzac Day - 25/4/1986 .4 - Royal Show Parade - 14/9/1986 .5 - North Altona to City Service - Show Day 25/9/1986 .6 - Eastern Freeway - ditto .7 - Doncaster Routes - ditto .8 - William St Shuttle - not operating on nominated days during the Christmas New Year period .9 - LaTrobe St services - ditto .10 - Eastern Freeway - ditto .11 - Doncaster Routes - ditto .12 - North Altona to City Service All issued by Metropolitan Transittrams, tramways, moomba, showgrounds, royal show, anzac day, operations, latrobe st, william st, doncaster, buses, north altona

Compiled by Gus Weir of the Wellington Tramway Museum, former Wellington tram driver. Comprises some 70 double-sided album sheets for photographs of Melbourne Z1, Z2 and Z3 class trams. Scanned into 6 parts as pdf files. Many photos taken at Domain Interchange, Swanston Walk, Bourke St, St Kilda Road, Elizbeth St and La Trobe St. Photos by Gus himself during Melbourne visits with some by B R Symons, D W Jones, and Michael P Hawkins Part 1 - Introduction - Z1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 14, 19 & 22. Part 2 - Z1, 28, 31, 34, 37, 39, 49, 43, 45, 47, 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 59, 61, 63, 65, 71, 70, 73, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 93 & 95. Part 3 - Z1 & Z2 & Z3 - 96, 100, 101, 108, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 120, 122, 123, 125, 126, 128, 199, 136, 137 & 138 Part 4 - Z3 138, 139, 148, 150, 151, 154, 157, 155, 158 (Royal Tram), 160, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170 & 173 Part 5 - Z3 175, 176. 178, 179, 181, 182, 185, 186, 187, 193, 194, 196, 197, 199, 201, 203, & 204 Part 6 - Z3 204, 205, 208, 209, 211, 217, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229 & 230, Yields detailed information about Melbourne trams from 1980 to 2011Set of 70 album sheets most with four photos - some blanks to allow for further photos. Each photo has a label on the rear, with details of the photograph location, photographer and date. An insert label on each page gives tram number, location and date. See last image file - Gus Weir Obituary - Wellington Tramway Museum 2019.tramways, tramcars, albums, z1 class, z2 class, z3 class, melbourne, mmtb, the met, ptc, yarra trams, swanston trams, m>tram, domain junction, swanston st, bourke st

Written by Dr Arthur Winzenried, APW Productions in 1996, providing a short history of Melbourne's trams - including a definition of what is a tram. Looks at cable trams, horse trams, electric trams, the Victorian Railways trams, the Melbourne network and at the time (1996) the recent developments - the transition from MMTB to The Met and PTC. Gives two timelines of tramway development in Melbourne. Is referenced with a further reading list.Yields information about the Melbourne Tram system and their historical context.Booklet - printed card covers, 28 A4 printed pages, stapled on left hand side.Has date stamp of "28 Jul 1996" stamped on top of first page.tramways, melbourne, cable trams, history, horse tram, electric trams, arthur winzenried

Contains full colour photographs of Melbourne trams in other locations such as Edmonton, Auckland, Christchurch, Seattle, Memphis, New Orleans, San Francisco, Denmark, San Jose, and Dallas. Also contains photographs of Adelaide, Brooks Oregon, Kennebunkport, Okayama, Demonstrates production of calendars featuring tram photographs, containing many historic photographs and Melbourne Ws in overseas places.Wall Calendar - heavy card covers, 28 gloss art pages inside, titled "Trams - 2009" with a punched hole along the top edge to enable wall use.tramways, melbourne, adelaide, san francsico, w2 class, sw 6 class, edmondton, denmark

Contains full colour photographs of Australian & New Zealand trams - Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart, Dunedin, Christchurch Trolley bus, Brisbane. Includes photos of trams that visited Melbourne - Porto 018, Lisbon C008, and Adelaide Flexity 111 on test at Preston Workshops. Also includes a photo of two of C2 class trams, in their Bumblebee livery/Demonstrates production of calendars featuring tram photographs, with photographs of trams on test in Melbourne.Wall Calendar - heavy card covers, 28 gloss art pages inside, titled "Trams - 2010" with a punched hole along the top edge to enable wall use.tramways, melbourne, adelaide, sydney, dunedin, christchurch, brisbane, hobart, c2 class

Contains full colour photographs of Australian - Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Bendigo, Valley Heights, Brisbane. Includes photo of a cable tram trailer and a Steam tram.Demonstrates production of calendars featuring Australian tram photographsWall Calendar - heavy card covers, 28 gloss art pages inside, titled "Trams - 2012" with a punched hole along the top edge to enable wall use.tramways, melbourne, adelaide, sydney, brisbane, bendigo, valley heights, steam trams, cable trams

Contains full colour photographs of Australian and New Zealand - Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Bendigo, Brisbane, Ballarat, Bendigo, Launceston, Fremantle, Perth, Christchurch, Victor Harbor, Demonstrates production of calendars featuring Australian tram photographsWall Calendar - heavy card covers, 28 gloss art pages inside, titled "Trams - 2013" with a punched hole along the top edge to enable wall use.tramways, melbourne, adelaide, sydney, brisbane, bendigo, ballarat, perth, launceston, christchurch

Photograph of SW5 764 (Route11) taken from an office window in Gisborne St East Melbourne. Tram has The Met colour scheme with adverts for Heineken beer and advertising 60+ travel cards. Shows a tram in Gisborn St East Melbourne during The Met period.Colour print with notes on rear."From my office 28/6/89"sw5 class, tram 764, tramcars, gisborne st, the met

Full colour, 28 page on gloss paper travel souvenir guide photos, with a fold out centre fold - titled "The City on the Yarra Melbourne Australia". Features many photographs of the City of Melbourne, Phillip Island, Puffing Billy, Flinders St railway yard, Flinders St Station, Westgate bridge, the Trams of Melbourne, including some Transport Art trams. Trams: 181, 32, 497, 235, 85, 9W, 902, 22, 994, 168, 101, 225, 990 and 861?Has a price lable of $3.50 on the front cover.trams, tramways, transporting art, decorated trams, city of melbourne, travel books, souvenirs

Fold out map (12 sections), coloured of Melbourne's Tram and Bus routes, route numbers, rail lines, and location of major places of interest. On rear index to routes, 1st and last services, time of Sunday am services, list of suburbs, how to get there, MMTB Offices and depots and timetable list of all-night buses services.. Dated January 1967. Two copies held. 3rd copy added 28/5/15trams, tramways, melbourne, map, tram & bus services, all night services, route numbers, mmtb

Three page, photocopied, foolscap technical pamphlet titled "New Non-Articulated Tramcar for Melbourne", providing technical details for the Z class tram. Provides a description, development history, status, cost, warranty, vehicle performance, dimensions, suspension, braking, propulsion, electrical and control systems and body specifications. Developer - Commonwealth Engineering (Vic) and ASEA Sweden. Second copy added 28/11/2016.Has word "orange" in top right hand corner.trams, tramways, z3 class, mmtb, commonwealth engineering, specification, z class

Foolscap photocopied document, 6 sheets, stapled in top left hand corner, titled "Allocation of Tramcars as at 28 Feb. 1982", listing the class of trams allocated to each depot in Melbourne, MMTB, training trams, storage, special purpose trams, summary. Has been photocopied onto foolscap sheet - and published as a supplement to E.T 4/82. 2nd copy added 13-6-2016 from the estate of Charles Craig. 469.1 - As above, but with additional notes in red showing changes, in particular stored trams. See htd469i2.pdf. 469.2 - 10 A4 sheets - original workshops document. Sheets 1 to 3 - numerical order including to tram 191 including notes on storage. Sheets 4 to 8 - by depot, including notes on Training Trams, Tourist Trams and Miscellaneous trams. Sheet 9 - distribution list Sheet 10 - Fleet summary in service and storage. 469.1 and 469.2 from donation of Norm Cross added 26-9-2018trams, tramways, preston workshops, lists, tramcars, mmtb, lists, depots, depot allocation

File containing correspondence between the MMTB Chief Engineer Mr. Strickland and various companies, including Railless Ltd, Australian General Electric, English Electric / Dick Kerr and its UK consultants Heap and Digby (H&D) between the period August 1922 and August 1936. Includes drawings, technical specifications, some of which are duplicated in the Reg Item 535 file. For a listing of the contents of this file and of Reg Item 535, see Related Documents - htd535-536list.pdf Item 536 - Trolley Buses Listed from top of file, in order found. Letters generally to/from MMTB Chief Engineer. Date Type Notes 7/8/1936 Letter from TE Barnes – re Bremen Germany Steam Omnibus. Three pages. On foolscap paper – rest quarto. Has been damaged. 3/2/1926 Letter from Bruce Henderson re transport in the Glen Eira Rd area – poor private bus. 25/10/1925 Letter to G. Higgins, regarding a paper he had presented and printed in Australian Municipal Journal about transport around Melbourne, predicted the demise of trams, trains. Notes Spencer St bridge. Copy of paper is pinned with letters. 28/819/22 Copy of letter to H&D from AEC (see above) Includes the Mexborough test gradient drawing. Undated Pamphlet from Railless Limited about Birmingham’s new trolley buses. 16/3/1923 Extract from Electric Railway and Tramway Journal – wages of trolleybus drivers not getting paid extra in Bradford. Two copies pinned together. 9/4/1923 Letter from H&D re pamphlet exchange You should have had it! 23/2/1923 Letter to H&D asking for information. Has a note re the Board’s attitude towards motor buses. 28/8/1922 to 24/23 Series of letters pinned together with L. de Koenneritz regard trolley buses and Paris. Noted that the MMTB did not have the legislative power to run trolley buses. 15/2/1922 to 10/4/23 Series of letters pinned together with the Aust. GE regarding trolley buses and references to their operation in journals. 10/1/1923 Letter from H&D re request for information on driving gear of Railless Ltd. vehicles 23/2/1923 Letter to H&D re above. 23/2/1923 Sheet of paper on “Steads Review” paper – pamphlet not yet to hand. 8/11/1922 to 10/1/1923 Series of letters with H&D pinned together asking for Railless driving gear – reluctant to provide. 26/9/1922 Letter from H&D, with copy of letter from English Electric enclosing materials regarding Trolley Bus equipment. Note much of this material is the same as that in Reg Item 535 contained within the green cloth tape. Performance curves for DK 26B motor Blueprint – 4449 – outline of controller DK, Type D, form B. Specification for DK 26B trolley motor. Blueprint – drawing 2810 – DK 26 Motor Blueprint – No. 1312D – controller diagram Pamphlet – EE – tramcar Type D automatic circuit Breakers. Publication No. 230, dated 9/1920. Ditto, Form A, drawings No 3565, 1/1/19. Performance curves for DK85A motor Blueprint – P2002M034 – DK85 Motor. EE specification for Traction Motor DK85 Modified from a tram motor. Blueprint – EE drawing – P2002M036 – DK85 motor with ball bearings. EE blueprint P2102F021, traction control wiring for form D controller. EE blueprint P2103F033 – outline of controller type SE1, form C and D. EE blueprint P2102Z011 – wiring diagram for type SE1 form controller. EE blueprint – P2102F025 – diagram of connections (wiring) for Type SE1, form D controller.trams, tramways, trolley buses, melbourne, mmtb, aec, heap and digby, english electric, railless, dick kerr, general electric

Report - A4 - titled "Application for Access - Milan Tram 1692". .1 - providing details of the tramcar, wheel profile, colour photograph, elevation and floor plan and swept path diagram. .2 - floor and elevation drawings. .3 - Photograph of the tram passing Flinders St station 28/4/2002 - printed on Kodak paper .4 - Photograph of the tram in Victoria Parade about to turn into Latrobe St with a city circle car behind it - details as for .3trams, tramways, reports, milan, tram 1692

Pressed metal uniform badge for the M&MTB, Employees. Round pressed steel badge with the words "M&MTB" pressed into the badge around the top portion of the badge, the word "EMPLOYE" and number "28" pressed into the lower half of the badge -with small horizontal lines within the individual letters. On rear badge two metal lugs have been soldered onto the badge to allow a leather strap to be fitted to the badge. Similar badges made for ESCo Ballarat by Stokes and Sons, see all Reg Items 394 and 580.trams, tramways, badges, employees, mmtb, passes

Set of 12 laminated tram stop timetables for various routes and stops. Has customer information line number, PTV and Yarra Tram logos. .1 - Route 6, stop 39 - Auburn Grove - 12/4/2012 .2 - Route 6, stop 36, Park Road - 28/3/2014 .3 - Route 16, stop 59, Malvern Road, 28/3/14 .4 - Route 8, stop 30, South Yarra Station - 28/3/2014 .5 - Route 55, Domain Interchange, stop 20 - 28/3/2014 .6 - Route 72, Prahran market - stop 30, - 31/3/2014 .7 - Route 72, Mathoura Road - stop 35 - 13/1/2014 .8 - Route 72, stop 33, Francis St - 31/3/2014 .9 - Route 72, stop 37, Orrong Road - 31/3/2014 .10 - Route 72, stop 38, Clendon Road - 31/1/2014 .11 - Route 72, stop 72, Glenferrie Road - 31/3/2014 .12 - Route 72, stop 70, Cotham Road - 13/1/2014.trams, tramways, yarra trams, timetables, tram stops, route 6, route 16, route 8, route 55, route 72

Blue cardboard box containing a set of replicate paste board, ochre colour, tickets for the Doncaster and Box Hill Electric Road Co., Ltd, Day Return - Box Hill Doncaster - price 9d with individual numbers in black. On rear are details of the Centenary Exhibition at the Box Hill Town Hall 19-28 October 1989. Nos. 0673, 74, 0697 - 0700 (5 No. ) Nos. 3667 - 3700 (34) Nos. 3701 - 3719 (19) Nos. 3724 - 3735 (12) 3738 and 3739 (2) See also Reg Item 2847trams, tramways, box hill, centenary, exhibitions, tramways, doncaster, city of box hill