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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Ephemera - Ticket, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), Tramways tickets - Bendigo assorted, c19??
Bendigo tram tickets - variousDemonstrates a variety of tickets used by Bendigo Tramways in Victoria, and the variety of punch marks used to differentiate conductors, days Mon - Fri, etc.A collection of Bendigo Tramways ticket memorabilia. Pocket 1 - Letter Carrier's tickets. The tickets are printed in black ink on a cream paper. All cover the same destinations and are issued by the Electricity Supply Department for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria - Bendigo Branch. Pocket 2 - Nipping impressions of Weekly Ticket Punches used on the golden Square route. Pocket 3 - Bendigo Tramways Co. Ltd - 3d ticket. The three tickets have a value of 3d each. They feature an illustration of the Bendigo Tram, with the 3d price, printed in green ink on cream paper. There is a large Capital T printed in black ink. Pocket 4 - SECV Provisional Tramways books of tickets - Book 1 is incomplete and has every ticket stamped "Bendigo Trams Last Day 16th April 1972 in red ink on the ticket face. The tickets, printed in yellow ink on a cream background, have a value of 16c each. Book 2 is complete, with tickets having a value of 6c. The printing ink is aqua on a cream paper background. Pocket 1 - Letter Carrier's tickets Nos. 1 and 3 feature a stamped date in ink. Ticket No. 2 has the date 1-10-51 hand-written on the LH side edge. Pocket 2 - Nipping impressions - the card, showing different nippings, labelled 1 - 6, has the words "Impressions of Weekly Ticket Punches used on Golden Square Route". Pocket 3 - B. T. Co Ld Tram tickets Pocket 4 - Block 1 tickets have the wording "Bendigo Trams Last Day 16th April 1972" stamped in red ink on the face.tickets, tramways, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Ephemera - Ticket, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), Ballarat Tramways tickets - daily 3 pence - 4 pence, c19??
Daily return ticket issue for each day of the week to either Darling St (3d) or Sebastopol (4d). Was to be punched for the date of use, so as to prevent reuse on another day.Demonstrates a daily return ticket used in Ballarat.Assorted Ballarat Tramway tickets. The daily tickets, printed on colored paper, have a value between 3 pence and 4 pence. tickets, tramways, esco, ballarat tramways -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Weekly Tickets", 1928
Demonstrates and yields information about the considerations made for Weekly Tickets during the late 1920's.Set of handmade or hand written sheets regarding weekly tickets in Ballarat - using ink and pencil .1 - handwritten double foolscap sheet - titled "Weekly Tickets Ballarat" and dated 2/6/28 - sets out an extensive table of section, length, existing fares, present weekly and proposed tickets - 12 trips and 24? trips. Sets out conditions, current sales and notes. .2 - set of two Foolscap ruled sheets - titled "Weekly Tickets" detailing where they would be sold (the Showroom), the method of sales and accounting practices and when it can be used, reflects back to 1921 practices. Has a hand written section on the rear on the first sheets (images i2 to i4) .3 - single foolscap ruled sheet with further notes on weekly tickets (in light red ink), with two possible sketches of possible tickets on the rear in pencil. See also Reg Item 8029 for a 3-10-1926 document.On the outside of the first sheet "Mr Knox" in blue pencil.trams, tramways, tickets, esco, weekly tickets -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Notes on Weekly tickets", 1926
Demonstrates and yields information about the considerations made for Weekly Tickets during the late 1920's.Set of handmade or hand written sheets regarding weekly tickets in Ballarat - using ink and pencil .1 - Lined foolscap sheet dated 3-10-26, titled "Notes on Weekly tickets", regarding availability, point of sale, sections, availability, midday or lunch time usage, numbering, use of tokens, fare boxes, disadvantages, and possible layout sketches. .2 - ditto, pencil notes, about ticket revenues, overlapping sections, limit of times, holidays. See also Reg Item 8019 for a 1921 and 1928 documents. trams, tramways, tickets, esco, weekly tickets -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - Book, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Ballarat Tramways - Tramway Staff", 1905 to 1934
Employees Register for the Electric Supply Co. of Victoria, 1905 to 1934. Gives details of each employee, position, wage, address and general details and when left employment. Printed by Harry Tulloch Prop Ltd of Lydiard St Demonstrates the method that ESCo used to record its tramway employees. Yields information about the individual employee.Book - bound, heavy card cover, with green cover with "Ballarat Tramways - Tramway Staff" - in gold block, containing approx 200 sheets, ruled.esco, employees, register, list, tramways, ballarat -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Fare Token/s, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 1913
Demonstrates aspects of the Ballarat Tramways fare system at the time of the one man trams, tokens which could be pre purchased by travellers and save time when boarding trams. See notes on file re these eg Reg Item 1801. Fare tokens - 2d - 21mm diameter - green celluloid - with "B.E.T." in large capitals on front centre of token and words "Ballarat Electric Tramways 1913" on circumference. On reverse in large font "2" and a small font "D" at top of the right - indicating token had a value of two pence. For details of use see Reg. Item 1794 and Reg. item 1801.1, 1802. For 2d tokens, see Reg. Item 1943.1 See Reg. Item 2514 for H.P. James notes on the token system and See Reg. Item 1794 Another copy from donation of Jan Truscott added 2-12-2018. trams, tramways, tickets, tokens, esco, one man trams -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Fare Token/s, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 1913
Demonstrates aspects of the Ballarat Tramways fare system at the time of the one man trams, tokens which could be pre purchased by travellers and save time when boarding trams. See notes on file re these eg Reg Item 1801. Fare tokens - 1 1/2d - 21mm diameter - light brown celluloid - with "B.E.T." in large capitals on front centre of token and words "Ballarat Electric Tramways 1913" on circumference. On reverse in large font "1 1/2" and a small font "D" at top of the right - indicating token had a value of one and a half pence. For details of use see Reg. Item 1794 and Reg. item 1801.1, 1802. For 2d tokens, see Reg. Item 1943.1 See Reg. Item 2514 for H.P. James notes on the token system. trams, tramways, tickets, tokens, esco, one man trams -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - Ballarat Rail Profiles, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 2/1916
On the inside cover "Profiles of various parts of the tramway tracks, Ballarat Feb. 22, 1916. The profiles have been drawn in pencil from measurements at many locations. Gives the outline of the rail showing wear since 1905, location, and rail weight.Demonstrates and ESCo record of rail track wear after some 10 years of operation.Notebook - black card cloth based covers containing approx 50 ruled pages.tramways, ballarat, tracks, rail profiles, rails, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Fare Token/s, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 1913
Two Fare tokens - 1 1/2d - 21mm diameter - light brown celluloid - with "B.E.T." in large capitals on front centre of token and words "Ballarat Electric Tramways 1913" on circumference. On reverse in large font "1 1/2" and a small font "D" at top of the right - indicating token had a value of one and a half pence. For details of use see Reg. Item 1794 and Reg. item 1801.1, 1802. For 2d tokens, see Reg. Item 1943.1 See Reg. Item 2514 for H.P. James notes on the token system an d See Reg. Item 1794 3rd token added 11/8/2006 - 1944.3 4th token added 1/9/2016 - 1944.4 from donation of Julianne Giles. trams, tramways, tickets, tokens, esco, one man trams -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Fare Token/s, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 1913
Demonstrates aspects of the Ballarat Tramways fare system at the time of the one man trams, tokens which could be pre purchased by travellers and save time when boarding trams. See notes on file re these eg Reg Item 1801.Two Fare tokens - 2d - 21mm diameter - green celluloid - with "B.E.T." in large capitals on front centre of token and words "Ballarat Electric Tramways 1913" on circumference. On reverse in large font "2" and a small font "D" at top of the two - indicating token had a value of two pence. For details of use see Reg. Item 1794 and Reg. item 1801.1, 1802. For 1 1/2D tokens, see Reg. Item 1944.1 For other 2d token see Reg. Item 1794 and 2488 page 31. See Reg. Item 2514 for H.P. James notes on the token system and See Reg. Item 1794 trams, tramways, tickets, tokens, esco, one man trams -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Tramway Traffic Wages Book", 1919 - 1924
Each page of the volume is divided into rows and headed columns. Information appearing in each row includes the name, occupation, rate of pay, days worked and total fortnightly pay. There is provision for each row to contain details for two fortnightly pays. Occupations listed in these entries include driver, conductors and points boys, of various pay rates. See item 9541 for a 1929 to 1934 version. Images of object as follows: .1 - Book - front cover .2 - Book - edge .3 - inside cover and printer's label .4 - inside cover .5 - box .6 - box with cover off .7 - sheet 1 .8 - sheet 1 and 2 .9 - page with supplementary sheets .10 - page showing duty stamps .11 - rear cover .12 - sheet 1 names - 12/8/1919 .13 - sheet 16 - 30/12/1919 .14 - sheet 42 - 27/2/1920 .15 - sheet 62 - 11/1/1921 .16 - sheet 77 - 19/4/1921 .17 - sheet 78 part - 19/4/1921 .18 - sheet 102 - 1/11/1921 .19 - sheet 103 part - 1/11/1921 .20 - sheet 124 - 2/5/1922 .21 - sheet 143 - 3/10/1922 .22 - sheet 144 part - 3/10/1922 .23 - sheet 171 - 1/5/1923 .24 - sheet 172 - 1/5/1923 .25 - sheet 206 - 22/1/1924 .26 - sheet 248 - 23/12/1924 Demonstrates aspects of the Ballarat Tramways in the 1920’s and in an employee’s daily working life – eg their hours, wages, deductions etc. Has a strong association with individuals who worked for ESCo and the organisation itself.Leather bound journal titled ""Tramway Traffic Wages Book" Each sheet numbered 1 - 248 (see note below), wages requisition number, headed "Tramway Traffic Department". Printed by Berry Anderson &co, printers reorder number 16422. Book has sewn sections to cover with lining - crocodile skin style, about 6mm thick heavy cardboard covers, with leather corners and leather central binding, titled "Tramway Traffic Wages Book".trams, tramways, esco, electric supply co of victoria, wages, accounting -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - ESCo Ballarat No. 18, 1920s?
Black and white photograph of ESCo. tram No. 18. Date unknown, but post 1912, as windscreens for the driver have been fitted and tram converted for one man operation. Does not appear to have track brakes. Has "Suttons Pianos & Players." advertisement on roof side. This ad was used as the basis for the roof ads on the Horse Tram. Weather blinds - one in rolled up position, the other rolled down. Photo taken to illustrate this? See Item 753 for another print, which is poorer in quality and has been cropped on both ends.Yields information about ESCo 18, c1920sBlack and White photograph of ESCo Ballarat No. 18In pencil in bottom right hand corner "634"ballarat, tramways, trams, esco, tram 18, weather blinds, suttons -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Negative - Copy - ESCo 17 with crew, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 1905
Ballarat No. 17 at the time of the opening of the tramway in 1905. Photographed on the depot lead. Original negative held in the negative file. See also Reg Item 5104, 4290, 8700 for other copies of this image and 9466 for a glass plate negative.Yields information about Ballarat 's first trams - No. 17 - built by Duncan and Fraser for ESCo. Shows the dress of the crews and the fittings on the tramcar in detail.Copy negative of a black and white photograph from Ray Pearson Collection, taken by Dave Macartney in 1975ctrams, tramways, esco, wendouree parade, crews, tram 17, uniforms -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Section Staff, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Pleasant St Gardens - Loop Nth"
Used as a means of authorising a tramcar to have sole use of the track between the named points to avoid head-on collisions. Safeworking object - known as a section staff. Not known when made, but in use, until the introduction of the electric signalling in the mid 1930's by the SEC. See also Reg Items 934 and 988 for details of use and other examples are at 1851, 52 and 53, 2473 and 4444 to 4448 , 4996 and 4497 and Reg item 934 and 988 for articles on the safeworking systems.Demonstrates aspects of Safeworking on the Ballarat Tramway system used to c1936 when replaced by electric signals. Yields Information about the operation of Ballarat's trams and safeworking procedures.Cast brass item with a flat part recessed section with the words "BALLARAT TRAMWAYS SECTION STAFF" cast into the surface and a flat section underneath, flush with the outside edges in which the words "PLEASANT ST - GARDENS LOOP NTH. " stamped in. Has an open rounded end which forms a handle or a point where it could be hung on a peg.tramcars, tramways, staff, safeworking, tramway staffs, sec, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Mileages Ballarat", "Fare Distances", c1920?
Yields information about track mileages and horse tram track and information used in calculating fares.Report or chart - set of two documents pinned together in the top left hand corner giving information of system miles for both track and fares. .1 - Blue print - Mileages Ballarat - giving route including Sebastopol Horse car and one leg of a loop. Provides single track miles, double track miles, Total track, Total Single track miles, miles for car mileages. .2 - "Fares Distances" dated 7-3-01 - all routes. Has been prepared on the rear of a 1921 calendar, Brown, Win? of 30 Armstrong St Ballarat.trams, tramways, mileage, horse trams, esco, fares, crossing loop -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Accidents", c1919
Yields information about the Ballarat and Bendigo systems operated by ESCo and the accidents during the second decade.Report - quarto and two double foolscap or folio sheets, carbon copy, titled "Accidents". Gives details of the accidents on trams for both Ballarat and Bendigo, statistics for each city, insurance premiums, impact of Fare Box tramcars, Details accidents and incidents for each year between 1911 and 1918, tramcars used, wages for both Motormen and Conductors and services operated with number of tramcars.trams, tramways, ballarat, bendigo, accidents, fare boxes, operations, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Issue of Tokens", c1915
Yields information and demonstrates the use of fare tokens in Ballarat, their manufacture and accounting information.Report - typed foolscap sheet (2 copies) and handwritten sheet, for which most of the sheet has been reproduced in the typed report. The hand written sheet is ruled and has been glued together to form a long sheet. Looks at the purchase of tokens in 1914, the costs from the UK and Australia, how they were issued to crews, for both fare box drivers and conductors, accounting for them using tubes, time taken to account for by a clerk. trams, tramways, ballarat, bendigo, tokens, fare boxes, operations, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Report, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Miles Run", c1921
Yields information about the passenger traffic in Ballarat, Bendigo during the mid 1920's? , Insurance, population and the use Fare Boxes.Report - typed, carbon copies, foolscap or quarto sheets, "Miles Run" listing , for both Ballarat and Bendigo, passengers tickets by Fare Box, Conductor, passenger per car mile, average fare, average speed, length of double and single track, passengers carried total, and population, and the public risk premium since fare boxes introduced. Use of Fare Boxes commenced in 1913, on this basis of 7 further years as noted in the sheet, c1921 6 copies held, all pinned together by paper type.trams, tramways, reports, passengers, ballarat, fare boxes, insurance, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "One Man Cars", 11/1919
Set of records and items concerning the operation of one-man trams in Ballarat by the Electric Supply Co of Victoria, The North Melbourne Electric Tramways and Lighting Co (NMETL) and Bendigo trams. Comprises: 1 - Notes on Ballarat One Man Fare Box Cars - fares, tokens, style of trams, fare boxes, headways, and issues. The second page has operational statistics, insurance, and routes operated - dated 8/11/1919. 2 - Motorman's Daily Record Fare Box Car - small card 3 - Adjustment of Fares form 4 - Daily Report of Cars Inspected form 5 - Report of Accident or Unusual Occurance form 6 - Driver's Running Journal form 7 - Car Mileage form 8 - Driver's and Conductor's Cash Statement form 9 - Fare Box Cash Statements 10 - Colour pencil sketch plan view of front of tramcar 11 - two sheets "Cars in Service and Headway" - Keilor Road Route and River Route - NMETL 12 - Letter re times of a reported journey or trip and passenger numbers in Bendigo - pick up, numbers and running times for a Bendigo route - evening trip with a one-man tram. Yields information about the operation of fare box and one man trams in Ballarat, including notes on NMETL and Bendigo operations.Manila folder marked "One Man Cars" containing 12 items of various sizes with some folded to fit the folder. All pinned with a brass clip.tramways, trams, esco, one-man trams, forms, tokens, nmetl, bendigo -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s, David Verrier, ESCo wooden Tower wagon, 26/04/1975
Photo of the first horse drawn tower wagon at Sovereign Hill. This item was offered to the BTPS but declined as it did not have the storage space for it. Understood to have later been dismantled.Yields information about the appearance of the horse drawn tower wagon of ESCo.Agfa colour slide, white blue plastic mount. Photograph Saturday 26/4/1975 at the time of the first COTMA conference. Photo by David Verrier. See also Reg Item 7689 for another photograph by Andrew Howlett.On back of slide in ink' "Saturday 26/4/75 Tower Wagon Sovereign Hill Ballarat"tramways, trams, tower wagon, sovereign hill, cotma -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Tramcar, Duncan and Fraser, ESCo Tram No. 12, 1892 & 1905
Single truck (4 wheel) straight sill combination tramcar with open ends, closed centre saloon, longitudinal seats. Centre section originally an 1892 Sydney cable car trailer ( No. 18 - North Sydney). No mechanical equipment of the 1905 tram has survived. For an article on the tram and progress during 2018 see August 2018 issue of Fares Please! See Conservation Plantrams, tram 12 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Tramcar, Duncan and Fraser, ESCo Tram No. 21, 1913
As built - Single truck, straight sill closed cross bench tramcar. As recovered - frame, one side roof plus both ends no internal fittings, seats or mechanical equipment. Moved from Daylesford to Newstead - 29/10/1994 - See November 1994 Fares Please! Moved from Newstead to Bungaree - See November 1994 and Jan. 1995 Fares Please!, Destination Eaglehawk. Photo is of the tram at Newstead on a former Melbourne Cable car trailer bogie (the one ex Ararat)trams, tram 21 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph, Horse trams - ESCo line up Wendouree Parade, c1905
Black and white photograph of the Ballaarat Tramway Co. horse tram fleet massed for a group photograph within the Gardens, at one of the loops. May have been taken on the same day as item 800. About the same number of horse trams. Close up of some the trams. The first has "CONVENT" destination and "Havelock Tobacco" advertisements. By the first tram is person dressed in an overcoat and hat. Conductor and driver on either side. Print made from a photograph held by the Ballarat Historical Society - original photo had drawing pin holes on bottom edge. See Reg Item 1121 for another reproduction of the photograph and item 9656 for a hand coloured good quality version. 2nd copy added 9/11/2005.trams, tramways, horse trams, wendouree parade, gardens, electrification -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Poster, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Tramways Act 1890 - Second Schedule - Offences", 1906
Demonstrates the preparation of posters detailing tramway Offences by Passengers by ESCoPoster - single sheet titled "Tramways Act 1890 - Second Schedule - Offences" issued by the Electric Supply Co. of Victoria setting out offences that could be made by a passengers, liabilities, punishment, non payment of fares, sizing of objects and payment of tolls and charges. Dated Bendigo January 1906trams, tramways, esco, behaviour, by laws, eaglehawk, bendigo, tickets, alcohol, offences, passengers -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Letter/s, Ballarat Tramway Museum (BTM), Mar. 2009
Yields information about a tramway employee and has a strong association with Frank BowdenSeries of letters/e-mails regarding Frank Bowden, motorman, depot worker with ESCo 1924 to 1940's and Kath McLennan. Attached papers: - typed letter 94/2009 - Extract from ESCo Employees Register - 2nd page of above - Extract from ESCo Wages book - Extract from ESCo Employees Register for November 1933 - various notes ESCo Employee Register and BTM Collection.trams, tramways, motormen, esco, depot, personnel -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Letter/s, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 8/05/1922 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about industrial issues affecting one man trams, the unions and the other people to which Mr Pringle corresponded.Letter, typed, one quarto sheet and three foolscap sheets, dated 8/5/1922 from Mr Pringle to Fred Thonemann (Barrister?), with copies to G G Jobbings, W. Strangward, H Dix and A Murdoch - Melbourne tramway operators. Letter is a report on a Arbitration hearing and appearances before the Registrar in Ballarat concerning the operation of two man trams when it had been operated previously by one man operations. Detailed report on the event and reporting in the newspapers.trams, tramways, ballarat, insurance, fare boxes -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Section Staff, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Carlton St - Car Shed Loop"
Demonstrates aspects of Safeworking on the Ballarat Tramway system from 1960 to c1936 when replaced by electric signs. Yields Information about the operation of Ballarat's trams and safeworking procedures.Cast brass item with a flat part recessed section with the words "BALLARAT TRAMWAYS SECTION STAFF" cast into the surface and a flat section underneath, flush with the outside edges in which the words "CARLTON ST. CAR SHED LOOP." stamped in. Has an open rounded end which forms a handle or a point where it could be hung on a peg. The part with the words "CAR SHED LOOP" appears to have been ground down and a previous location name taken out and replaced. Used a means of authorising a tramcar to have sole use of the track between the named points to avoid head on collisions. Safeworking object - known as a section staff. Not known when made, but in use until the introduction of the electric signalling in the mid 1930's by the SEC. See also Reg Items 934 and 988 for details of use and other examples are at 1851, to 53, 2473 and 4444 to 4448, , 4996 and 4497 and Reg item 934 and 988 for articles on the safeworking systems.trams, tramways, staff, safeworking, tramway staffs, sec, signals -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Section Staff, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "Seymour St. Loop. Gregory St. Loop"
Demonstrates aspects of Safeworking on the Ballarat Tramway system from 1960 to c1936 when replaced by electric signs. Yields Information about the operation of Ballarat's trams and safeworking procedures.Cast brass item with a flat part recessed section with the words "BALLARAT TRAMWAYS SECTION STAFF" cast into the surface and a flat section underneath with the words "SEYMOUR ST LOOP GREGORY ST LOOP." stamped in. Has an open rounded end which forms a handle or a point where it could be hung on a peg. The part with the words giving the two locations appears to have been ground down and a previous location names taken out and replaced. Used a means of authorising a tramcar to have sole use of the track between the named points to avoid head on collisions. Safeworking object - known as a section staff. Not known when made, but in use until the introduction of the electric signalling in the mid 1930's by the SEC. See also Reg Items 934 and 988 for details of use and other examples are at 1851, to 53, 2473 and 4444 to 4448, , 4996 and 4497 and Reg item 934 and 988 for articles on the safeworking systems.trams, tramways, staff, safeworking, tramway staffs, sec, signals -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional Object - Section Staff, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), "South St. Rubicon St."
Demonstrates aspects of Safeworking on the Ballarat Tramway system from 1960 to c1936 when replaced by electric signs. Yields Information about the operation of Ballarat's trams and safeworking procedures.Cast brass item with a flat part recessed section with the words "BALLARAT TRAMWAYS SECTION STAFF" cast into the surface and a flat section underneath, flush with the outside edges in which the words "SOUTH ST. RUBICON ST." stamped in. Has an open rounded end which forms a handle or a point where it could be hung on a peg. Used a means of authorising a tramcar to have sole use of the track between the named points to avoid head on collisions. Safeworking object - known as a section staff. Not known when made, but in use until the introduction of the electric signalling in the mid 1930's by the SEC. See also Reg Items 934 and 988 for details of use and other examples are at 1851, to 53, 2473 and 4444 to 4448, , 4996 and 4497 and Reg item 934 and 988 for articles on the safeworking systems.trams, tramways, staff, safeworking, tramway staffs, sec, signals -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo), 1913
Black and white photograph of a Bendigo Single Truck cross bench tramcar (either 17 or 18) when built new in 1913. Tram has words "Bendigo and Eaglehawk Tramways" on top rail above windows. Photograph appears to be a photo of another print, with black ink "15" in the bottom left hand corner on the newer print on copy 1 of the item only. See page 30 of Destination Eaglehawktrams, tramways, bendigo, cross bench tram