Carbon typed copy of a technical procedure - 4 pages -"Graphical Location of Trolley Wire" giving the guide on how to locate trolley wire on curves and junctions, gives formulas, positioning at frogs, notes regarding various cars and trolley wire height. Consists of four pages with a blue print drawing. Each page has been scanned the blue print drawing reversed imaged as well. 4768.2 - the blue print drawing. Extracted from "Transit" Journal - April 1934. Dated 10th Jan. 1935 BTPS Number "226". "226" in ink on left hand bottom of first pagetrams, tramways, overhead, trolley wire, points

Carbon typed copy of a technical procedure - 3 pages "Rectifier Protection" gives details on cell failures, surge voltage protection, bridge circuits, over current and provides four figures to illustrate the paper. Written D.B. Corbyn and N. L. Potter in a paper to the Institute of Electrical Engineers London. Not dated. Assumed mid 1930's. BTPS Number "216". "216" in ink on left hand bottom of first pagetrams, tramways, electrical engineering

Two copies of a Carbon typed copy of a technical procedure - 6 pages - "Extract from the 'Proceedings of the Electrical Association of New South Wales' session 1910 - 11" - giving advice on the location of Trolley Wire" giving the guide on how to locate trolley wire on curves and junctions, gives formulas, positioning at frogs, notes regarding various cars and trolley wire height includes notes on cross falls of track, a table of aluminium copper alloys - bending strength and failure modes. Consists of five pages with two blue print drawing. Each page has been scanned the blue print drawings reversed imaged as well. 4768.2 - blue print drawing showing references in the various formulas etc used. 4768.3 - ditto showing tracking for four wheeled and bogie cars and other diagrams for turnouts, frog locations and frog angles. BTPS Number "219". "226" in ink on left hand bottom of first pagetrams, tramways, overhead, trolley wire, points

Yields information about how the SEC filed pamphlets or information papers about tramway overhead and associated equipment and letters.Green cardboard file folder with metal clip and binder - "The Acorn Individual File - Foolscap size with title blocks containing the following items: 4910 - Tangential Suspension - overhead 4911.1 - Letter from "The Forest City Electric Co. Limited" to ESCo re Point controllers, tramway signals and warning signs, dated 29/7/1936 - 2 pages 4911.2 - Collins Patent Automatic Point Turner - sheet 19 - 4 pages - sheet 19, two copies 4911.2a - ditto, sheet 18 QT - four pages 4911.3 - Electrically operated Point switches, overhead frogs and signals for tramcar depots. - four pages 4911.4 - Automatic Tramway Signals - five pages - sheet ATS1 4911.5 - Universal Insulator - Sheet 17 - 2 pages 4911.6 - Porcelain hangers - sheet 15/1 - 2 pages 4911.7 - Porcelain insulators for cap and cone supension - page 11, 1 page. 4911.8 - Motor Bus and Tramcar Stage and Fare Signs in Cast Aluminium - sheet MD2 - 1 page 4911.9 - Flashers and Spellers - Sheet F1 - 2 pages 4911.10 - Forest City Relays - 2 pages 4911.11 - Traffic light - 1 page, sheet 2A 4912 - Memo re Suitability of Mr A. Widdop as a linesman - 18/11/1936 4913.1 - Letter dated 22/6/1937 from Agent General in London to the SEC Melbourne regarding shipment of the Non-Car Counting Signals. 4913.2 - Letter from the Forest City Electric Co 18/6/1937, regarding forwarding a blue print for the signals. 4914 - Letter from the Forest City Electric Co 23/6/1937, regarding forwarding sample insulators and booklet 15.2 4915 - Letter from Sands Hill Manufacturing Co to ESCo re regarding overhead crossings - dated 13/4/1928. 4916 - Memo dated 14/3/1934 to Mr Pringle, regarding tension in trolley wire. 4917 - Letter from T. Strickland MMTB to Bendigo re standard height for ears above rail level - 16/3/1934. Some of these document Scanned in pdf form to COTMA Library 1/2011 On rear of file: Top of file - "Tramways", in title block "Tramway Overhead & Signals" and in bottom right hand corner - "230". On spine - in pencil - "Overhead Parts and Proceedings"trams, tramways, signals, overhead, pamphlets, manual

Has a strong association with the work of the Royal South Street Society, who published a handbook/guide or manual for their competitions. Used a photograph published at about the same time.Set of 15 photocopies of pages from the Royal South Street Society Guide showing trams in Sturt St Ballarat. .1 - Sturt St Looking East - with an ESCo tram outside the town hall and other horse drawn vehicles - 1907 .2 - Sturt St Looking West - same image as in Reg item 2688 - 1907 .3 - Sturt St Looking East - with many vehicles and people - 1910 and the "Chef" kitch range stove advertisement sold by Middleton and Morris of Sturt St. .4 - Sturt and Lydiard St, with a tram turning from Sturt into Lydiard St, 1910 with the post office in the background - 1910 and an advertisement for Woderine medicine sold by Jas. A. Gear, herbalist. .5 - Sturt St looking West - tram turning from Sturt into Lydiard St, taken from near post office corner - 1911 and a advertisement for Williams the Shoeman. .6 - Sturt St. West - with an ESC0o tram outbound - the only vehicle - 1913. .7 - same photo as .3, with a Monster Military Carnival Advertisement for Nov. 8th - 1913 .8 - Sturt and Lydiard St from next to post office, looking west with two trams, one horse trailer and many people - a busy scene - 1914 .9 - Sebastopol tram No. 21 at Grenville St - 1928 - with the Ballarat Gas Company Show rooms in the background, the Sturt St shelter. The tram has a Suttons Organs roof advertisement. .10 - View of Sturt Street, showing City Hall Buildings, with an ESCo Sebastopol type tramcar crossing the street, taken from the post office stops. - 1928 - Advertisements for G. Ludbrook Furnishing Undertaker (Motor Service and Horse drawn vehicles) and R. Young Grocer. .11 - Sturt St looking West, looking west, with a Sebastopol type tram at Grenville St and the big shelter removed. Has many buildings and many people in the background - 1928. .12 - same photo as for .10 and Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies Collection, Ballarat photograph - 1929. .13 - Advertisement for Ballarat Tramways - cars for Coliseum, fare box, route numbers and route colour scheme - 1929. .14 - as for above, no date, but opposite is the is an item for the Mouth Organ Band Contest, "A" Grade - c1933, notes the Coburg Tramway Athletic Club Harmonica Band and the Malvern Tramways Harmonica band amongst the contestants. .15 - same as .9, with a advertisement for the Melbourne Coffee Palace - Bourke St. Photocopies made by Neville Hasket for the BTM 10/2008. See also Reg item 675 for alternative source details.Handwritten note on photocopiestrams, tramways, ballarat, sturt st., royal south street society, lydiard st, town hall, post office, esco

Cardboard cover front and back, with red tape on spine. Contains typed instruction notes related to Fitting. There are some blank pages on the left side which have hand written notes dating from 29 January 1941. The back cover, outside, is covered with signatures and five digit numbers. (Possibly fellow students on this course, with their enlistment numbers.) Front cover. Hand written.Brunswick Technical school Dawson St Brunswick. RAAF Station West Melbourne Some other writing, illegible.ww2, defence training

Brown hardcover book. Home Nursing and the St. John Ambulance Association logo on the front in white lettering. Home Nursing 4th edition, SJAA on the spine. The book has 280 pages. Aileen and John Ellison Collection.20 c on first page. On back page: 4" shoulder and groin. 3" on leg spica, 3" ankle? leg, 2" foot and two un-legible words.home nursing, st. john ambulance

Soft cover book. The front cover is divided in four triangles, The first at the top, red with the St. john ambulance association logo. Moving clockwise in white a drawing of an injured man and a man and a woman assisting. The next triangle again in red with the words in black and white "preliminary first aid". the last vignette is of an injured man lying down and one assisting and a third man calling for help. This is the fourth edition and was published in London in 1963. Aileen and John Ellison Collection.On front cover: Aileen Ellison and a signature.first aid, st. john ambulance

.1 - Provides the Victorian Regulations and requirements for electric wiring, switch boards for all buildings and installations in 1950. .2 - as above for 1960, has a detailed list of contents, tables and index at the rear. Applicable for 1960 .3 - provides the training program and procedures for the training of SECV Linesmen in the 1950's.1 - Yields information on the electrical requirements that Victorian Electricians and others parties were required to follow in electrical wiring. .2 - as above .3 - Demonstrates the procedures that SEC Linesmen were required to follow in their work..1 - Book - 10 sewn sections, orange cloth covers, 200 pages titled "SEC Wiring Regulations 1950". Cover price 3s .2 - Book - 15 sections, with end papers, 300 pages, red hard back cover "SEC Wiring Regulations 1961". Cover price 7/6 .3 - Book - 43 pages bound with metal binder into a manila card cover, titled "SEC Lineman's School Notes" - dated 9/12/1955.2 - has pencil notes on the inside of the rear cover. .3 - has the name "Bill ?" on the rear cover.secv, state electricity commission, rules, wiring, electrical, regulations, tramways