From Ron in Washington DC to Patricia Davies regarding visit to Melbourne and Australian Ballet and about Watergate and US elections.Addresses and phone numbers and notes

Invoices for the construction of 290 Walsh Street. These documents are owned by the Murphy family and were provided to the Robin Boyd Foundation for digitisation.Invoices to John Murphywalsh st construction, john murphy

Newspaper clipping - The Argus - 17/6/1939 titled "When we all sang "Rule Britannia"" about the Railway Strike of May 1903 and civic political reactions. Includes a part on the strike breakers and the Ballarat East loco shed. Has a sketch of a cable tram at Princes Bridge and train. Written by CRC Pearce Includes an image of HMAS Parramattaballarat, unions, strike, cable trams

Demonstrates a sales item that the museum has produced over many years.Metal lapel badge - image of MMTB W2 331 - stamped metal badge with a clip on rear, nickel plated finish, with hand painted green, cream, orange and black paint infilling the detail. Possible made for the TMSV, not thought to be a BTM produced badge - mid 1980's.tramways, trams, badges, lapel badge, btm, mmtb, w2 class

Demonstrates a sales item produced by the museum.Metal lapel badge - image of The Met A class tram No. 233 - stamped metal badge with a clip on rear, nickel plated finish, with hand painted green, yellow, grey and black paint infilling the detail. Possible made for the TMSV, not thought to be a BTM produced badge - mid 1980's.tramways, trams, badges, lapel badge, btm, the met, a class trams

Demonstrates a sales item produced by the museum.Metal lapel badge - image of Victorian Railways tram No. 50 - stamped metal badge with a clip on rear, nickel plated finish, with hand painted green, cream, grey and black paint infilling the detail. Possibly made Travis Jeffrey, not thought to be a BTM produced badge - mid 1900's.tramways, trams, badges, lapel badge, btm, victorian railways

Demonstrates a sales item produced by the museum.Metal lapel badge - image of MMTB L class tram No. 104 - stamped metal badge with a clip on rear, nickel plated finish, with hand painted green, cream, and black paint infilling the detail. Possibly made for the TMSV, not thought to be a BTM produced badge - mid 1900's.tramways, trams, badges, lapel badge, btm, tmsv, l class trams

Demonstrates a sales item produced by the museum. Metal lapel badge - image of MMTB SW6 class tram No. 887 - stamped metal badge with a clip on rear, nickel plated finish, with hand painted green, cream, and orange paint infilling the detail. Possibly made for the TMSV, not thought to be a BTM produced badge - mid 1900's.tramways, trams, badges, lapel badge, btm, tmsv, sw class

Metal lapel badge - image of MMTB Z class No. 10 - stamped metal badge with a clip on rear, nickel plated finish, with hand painted orange, cream, light and dark brown paint infilling the detail. Possibly made for the TMSV, not thought to be a BTM produced badge - mid 1900's.tramways, trams, badges, lapel badge, btm, tmsv, z class trams

Thirty two page book contained within a heavy card cover, saddle stapled. Printed on gloss paper with many black and white photos inside and colour cover. Book titled "Melbourne Tram Review" written by R.A. Birrell Details the formation of the MTA, The Met or the Metropolitan Transit Authority from the MMTB in 1983, the changing nature of the fleet, depots and allocations of tramcars, listing of tram classes, with various technical specifications, including tramcar numbers and photographs. For the B class, includes those which were not in service at the time of publication. Two separate allocation listings are given, the last one being that at 19/9/1988. Has contents pages, introduction by author and on rear cover, a listing of other publications produced by the publisher, Railmac. On the title page, (page 1) in green ink "Ex B.K."trams, tramways, melbourne, mta, metropolitan transit authority, tramways, tramcars

At its peak the Beech Forest railway employed more than 21 staff between Colac and Crowes. Gangers (men in charge of the track gangs) tended to be promoted into the Otways but many of their subordinate repairers were local recruits. A few of the men who worked in the original construction gangs of 1900-1902 remained and obtained positions in the track gangs along the line. The track was maintained by seven three-man gangs based at Colac, Barongarook, Gellibrand, Banool, Beech Forest (2), and Lavers Hill. However, track gangs lessened as the line shortened. After 1954, the sole surviving track gang, in charge of Paddy Balcombe, stayed until the line closed.A railway track gang, with helper, trolleying to a work site, on 14 December, 1955.beech forest; railways; track gang;

A DOWN goods train consisting of a G42 locomotive, a louvre van, two NQ trucks and a guard's van awaits departure from Gellibrand. Three youths are seated in the doorway of the guard' van. On the near track further NQ trucks are parked. A water tank appears in the distance.A DOWN goods train with locomotive G42 awaits departure time from Gellibrand on 14 December 1955. B/W.gellibrand; railways; locomotive g42; louvre van; nq trucks; guard's van; water tank;

Drivers were highly skilled enginemen. Taking a train from Beech Forest to down to Gellibrand required the train to be controlled at 10 mph (16 km) without running out of air. When a brake application was made the brakes on the locomotive were applied harder than the train brakes. The brakes locked up and the engine would just slide along. Drivers used a retention valve on the loco, then released the loco brakes so as not to wear out the brake shoes. So the train pulled into Gellibrand ready to pull out again after refilling the loco with water.At Gellibrand, a Down goods train is about to depart the station on 14 December 1955. The train consists of the locomotive G42, a louvre van NO, two NQ wagons and a guard's or brake van NC. B/W.gellibrand; colac; beech forest; railway;

B/W. Poison trolley NG No.1 on the Gang Shed siding at Beech Forest on 8 January 1958. The Gang Shed is shown. In the right background the Otway Shire Secretary's house.beech forest; railways;

Originally known as Loves River it became Kawarren station on 16 June 1902. It consisted of a loop siding and combined office and passenger shelter. Goods loading was sawn timber (brought in on four tramways operating between 1905 and 1939), firewood, charcoal and limestone. In 1920 the limestone company built a store shed and a covered loading area at the terminus to assist operations. The company also requested the siding to be extended by three metres, which Victorian Railways did in the same year. This gave the loop a capacity of 21 trucks. Around 2,000 tonnes per year of limestone traffic kept the station busy until trade ceased in 1957. A postal motor started in October 1938, Kawarren being a point where the postal motor and trains were permitted to cross.B/W. G42 with a Down goods train at Kawarren on 14 December 1955. On No.2 Road empty NQR wagons proceeding to get filled at a covered lime loading operation. A three workmen are checking aspects of the train while a group appear to be clustered at the guard's van around an NKS motor trolley.kawarren; railways; limestone; timber; charcoal;