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Melbourne Tram Museum
Newspaper, Herald Sun, My Secret Passion - trams", 29/8/1993
Newspaper cutting about Michael Norbury a tram enthusiast written by Phil Brown for The Herald Sun. Notes Michael's work, his tramway research into the HTT and Hawthorn Depot. Has a photo of him leaning out of V 214.Yields information about Michael Norbury and his tramway research.Newspaper cutting from The Herald Sun 29/8/1993tramways, michael norbury, htt, tram enthusiasts, enthusiasts -
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
Photograph - Ballarat Horse tram 1 - Wendouree Parade, Warren Doubleday, 7-11-1992
Colour print of Ballarat Horse Tram No. 1 with horses in Wendouree Parade arriving Depot Junction with passengers after a trip. Photo by Warren Doubleday on 7-11-1992. See also item 4086 for the actual launch photo.Yields information about the launch and the first operation of the horse tram in Wendouree Parade by the BTPS and has a strong association with those involved.Colour print with plain back.tramways, horse tram, tram 1, launch, btps, tramcars, reconstruction, wendouree parade -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Functional object - Brass coin holder - 3d and 6d
... depots ...Used by tramway revenue clerks, most likely the MMTB, including the Ballarat Tramway Museum to count coins, as only so many 3d or 6d would fit into each container. Each has a hole in the base to enable it to be checked that it was empty prior to use or after being used. One of the 3d containers have a loose "washer" which shows the nature of the construction. Has been secured with a piece of wrapping tape. One of the 6d tubes has a label advising that it would hold "$30 of $2 coins"Demonstrates the methodologies used to count coins and stack them in a revenue office. Provides a sample of each coin that would have been used. Brass coin holder - for use in counting 3d and 6d coins. Made from brass tube with a brass washer rolled or fixed to one end. In storage bag is are 2 x 3d and a 2 x 6d and 1x5c coins. 5 No. x 6d and 6 No. x 3d holders held in the collection.tramways, tickes, cash, cash handling, depots, coins, revenue clerks -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Administrative record, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "Tram fleet depot stock as at 29/12/93", 29/12/1993
... depots ...Provides a list of tramcars allocated to Brunswick, Camberwell, East Preston, Glen Huntly, Kew, Essendon, South Melbourne and Malvern by class, total numbers - dated 29/12/1993.Yields information about tramcar allocation to the various depots in Dec. 1993.A4 sheet listing tramcars in service at the time.depot allocation, allocation, tramcars, depots, ptc, list, fleet list -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Administrative record - Depot List, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "PTC Allocation of tramcars as at 01 December 1994", 1/12/1994
... Depots ...Gives tram allocations for Brunswick, Camberwell, East Preston, Kew, Glenhuntly, Essendon, Malvern and South Melbourne. Also provides notes on tram with poles and pantographs.Yields information about tramcar allocation between various depots and workshops.Set of five double sided A4 photocopied sheets titled "PTC Allocation of tramcars as at 01 December 1994", trams, tramways, tramcars, ptc, lists, depots, depot allocation -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Memorandum, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Special Notice to employees", Feb. 1920
... Depots ...Memorandum or Notice, half foolscap sheet, duplicated titled "Special Notice to employees", D482, asking employees to reduce gas consumption by half; refers to the War Precautions Regulations - probably due to a NSW coal strike. Dated 3/2/20, signed W. O Strangward.trams, tramways, cable trams, power supply, gas works, depots, strike -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Memorandum, Tramway Board, "Car Lighting", 8/01/1920 12:00:00 AM
... Depots ...Memorandum, half foolscap sheet, on Tramway Board Melbourne letterhead, dated 8/1/1920 to all line managers titled "Car Lighting" advising the Mr T Dawe will give instructions to Batterymen in the operation of the motor generator equipment and car lighting equipment. Signed by the Secretary, W. Strangward using a stamp. Two copies pinned together.trams, tramways, tramway board, cable trams, batterymen, depots, tram equipment -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "MMTB Telephone Directory - 1981", 1981
... depots ..."MMTB Telephone Directory - 1981", providing telephone numbers within the MMTB system and external dialed numbers, with officer names where known or detailed and location or head office room number. Has handwritten list of frequently called numbers on the inside page. Yields information about some of the MMTB employees and their positionlBook - 52 A4 pages + manila card covers, secured with two Arnos clips.mmtb, telephones, personnel, depots, workshops, substations, tramways -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Administrative record - Depot List, Public Transport Corporation (PTC), "PTC Allocation of tramcars as at 01 May 1994", May 1994
... depots ...Gives tram allocations for Brunswick, Camberwell, East Preston, Kew, Glenhuntly, Essendon, Malvern and South Melbourne. Includes Hawthorn, Newport, North Melbourne (Henderson Springs) and Thornbury locations where trams were stored.Yields information about tramcar allocation between various depots, storage facilities and workshops.Document - 19 A4 pages was stapled in top left hand corner.trams, tramways, ptc, depots, lists, depot allocation, stored trams -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - SEC Ballarat Depot monthly report, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1971
Record of the monthly reports from April 1965 to July 1971, signed by the Depot Foreman S Lakey, D Irwin or acting F. Minns. Lists the number of brake blocks replaced and summarises the principal work done on the tramcars and special jobs eg replacing the destination rolls. image i2 - April 1965 to December 1966 image i3 - Jan. 1967 to December 1968 - including an entry dated 10-9-1968 with a list of depot staff, addresses and phone numbers, 17 in all. image i4 - Jan. 1969 to December 1970 image i5 - Jan 1971 to July 1971Yields information about the Ballarat Workshop activities, tramcars maintained and events on a monthly basis.Memo reporting book, with sheets headed "Departmental State Electricity Commission of Victoria" - ruled, carbon copy with heavy card covers with green tape binding. Form SF-466-12-0254. A sheet of carbon paper remains in the book as if for the next entry.ballarat, tramcars, workshop records, workshops, maintenance -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Magazine, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), SEC News, May June 1953
Published for the staff of the SEC, features the Kiewa Valley transmission line, North East towns and workers, industry, Bendigo Tram's Golden Jubilee, (AETA Visit, Mr George Laurens, Doug Dean, Tom Lynch and Basil Miller), electrical safety, meter reading in the country, sports, electric cooking, and sports section. In the retirements were Mr P Pithie, Senior Traffic Inspector Geelong, Mr V Pipps Depot Foreman Geelong and Mr S Watson, Geelong Senior depot clerk. On the inside cover are photos of the package power stations being installed at Geelong, Ballarat (Ballarat B) and Mildura.Demonstrates a SECV Staff magazine.Magazine, 36 pages, black and white production, centre stapled.Has RHSV stamp on the cover and "Case ViiiA" in inktramways, geelong, secv, retirements, ballarat b power station, power stations, bendigo -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Negative - Tramcar allocation board - Geelong, early 1956
Photo shows the Tramcar allocation board - in the Geelong depot. Shows the four bogie cars in operation or available on the day the photograph was taken. Shows that some of the Meadowbank-built trams and bogie trams had already left the depot. One of a set of photos was taken between 15/2/1956 and 3/3/1956 when services operated only between Belmont and North before the final closure of the Belmont route on 25/31956 and that bogie tram 31 is not shown on the board, having gone to Ballarat on 15/2/1956 - see item 5554. See item 8213 for an article on the Geelong system by Keith Kings. Yields information about the Geelong depot allocation board that showed the location and use of the tramcars on the day.Black and white Negative - 120 sizetramways, geelong, depot, depot allocation, tramcar allocation -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Functional object - Sandringham tramway - section staff, 1920s
Item used on the Victorian Railways Sandringham - Black Rock tram line for the short section of the single track of the line between the railway station in Station Street and the depot entrance in Bay Road. Tram drivers were required to carry this to prevent a head-on collision on the single-line section. Image 3 shows the driver placing the item in the "staff box" outside the depot. Image from the DVD "VR Tramways in the 1950s", with permission from Effectch the Producer. The Newport Railway Museum holds the other staffs for this line along with a damaged one (or two) for the same section - see photo 4 for the Black Rock to Beaumaris Section.Demonstrates an item used to safely work trams on the Sandringham - Black Rock - Beaumaris tram line.Two sections of steel intermeshed to form a cross and stamped.Stamped "No. 1 Section" and "Sandringham - Staff Box"trams, tramways, safeworking, sandringham, section staff -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Papers - Hollonds' Family and their memories, 2013
The Hollonds' family were original settlers in the Kiewa Valley at Mulagong. Their descendants owned land in Tawonga, Tawonga South and between the East and West of the Kiewa river. Hollonds had a cattle run on Mt Fainter which was later given to the Hicks family.Members of the Hollonds family lived, worked and married in the Kiewa Valley. These papers describe the connection to the families and the Kiewa Valley.Typed papers donated by the Hollonds' family covering: The Hollonds Family History, Cattlemen, 'Snowy' Miller, Mrs Hollonds' Boarding house, SEC Depot at Tawonga, building of Bogong Township, Early Scenes on the Kiewa Scheme.hollonds family, tawonga station, cattlemen, mt beauty land, tawonga boarding house -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BENDIGO TRAM DEPOT, 1980's ?
Colour photo of Bendigo Tram Depot C 1980 ( J. Lerk 28.2.2000 ) gabled roof buildings, brick with corrugated iron rooves. Tram nos. 18, 30, 21 visible wrought iron gate.organization, government, bendigo tramways -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - HAMILTON COLLECTION:ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM, Early 1900s
Document. Program for ''Show Night and Race Night'' Fire Brigade Depot, Boort. September 27th and 28th. Featured artist Alex J Hamilton. Black and white photograph included (9cms X 12.5 cms).performing arts, elocution, entertainment program. -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Drawing, Eric R. Garrett, 1974
Wooden framed (handmade) etching of a depot depicting many buildings set our on an open field. Road bordering complex sandy beach & ocean waves. All coloured & etailed. Artist Eric R. Garrett.2nd advanced ordance depot, vung tau 1974 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Negative - Bendigo Water tram or scrubber inside the depot, Wal Jack, 7/03/1954 12:00:00 AM
Negative and Digital images of the Wal Jack Bendigo Negative file of the first or old Bendigo Water tram or scrubber inside the depot, 7-3-1954. See also Reg Item 5806 for another photo.trams, tramways, bendigo, depot, scrubber tram, sprinkler tram, tram scrubber tram sprinkler tram -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Print/s, Alastair Reither, 17/07/2016 12:00:00 AM
Colour print of the two dogs, Bonnie and Rabbi, owned by member Alastair Reither c2015 tied to one of the bumpers of tram 40 in the depot on No. 7 road. Used in the BTM Facebook page, 17/7/2016.trams, tramways, btm, volunteers, personnel, dogs, tram 40 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 27 mm sq slide/s, Lilian Butler, wheel lathe at the depot, Sep. 1971
Yields information about the appearance of the wheel lathe at the SEC Ballarat depot.Colour 27 x 27 mm slide in Kodachrome white cardboard mount showing the wheel lathe at the depot - out of focus. Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler. Slide mount dated September 1971.ballarat, tramways, trams, depot, sec depot, lathe, equipment, workshops -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Slide - 35mm slide/s, Robert Thomson, c1964
Yields information about Ballarat's trams during 1964c, the Wendouree Parade line.AGFA blue / white plastic mount, colour slide of No. 37, c1964 in Wendouree Parade, near the depot. Tram has the destination of Gardens via Drummond St Nth and has a advert for the Dancing at Civic Hall.tramways, trams, wendouree parade, lake wendouree, tram 37 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Photograph/s, Warren Doubleday, 1/10/1993 12:00:00 AM
Colour photograph taken of BTM no. 26 running out into Wendouree Parade from the depot access track - October 1993, through the window of another tramcar. Looking south along Wendouree Parade. On Fujicolor paper.Initials of "WAD" on rear in ink.btm, wendouree parade, tram 26 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Chris Wurr, Mar. 1969
Yields information about Ballarat's decorated trams, in particular this one for fund raising. The basic decoration was able to recycled for other events as well - Ballarat Base Hospital.Black and White photograph of No. 21 decorated for the March 1969 fund raising appeal for the Ballarat Base Hospital, dressed as the "Trambulance". Photographed at the depot? See Also Reg Items1885, 3750 and 3231 for more details of the tram.Stamped on rear in black ink "Donated to BTPS by and Photo By" / "Chris Wurr 12 Truscott Street, Ararat 3377 (053) 52 3403.tramways, trams, ballarat base hospital, decorated trams, appeals, tram 21 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), "Old No. 11 is back on the rails", Feb. 1987
Clipping from SEC News Feb 1987, page 8, titled "Old No. 11 is back on the rails", reporting on the recommissioning of Birney No. 11 in Bendigo. Has a photo of No. 11 breaking the ribbon after leaving the depot.birney, bendigo, commissioning -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Photograph/s, Warren Doubleday, 19.8.1995
Colour photograph of ESCo No. 12, photographed at the rear of the depot following receipt and removal of some parts. Photographed on cable tram bogies. Photographed by Warren Doubleday 19.8.1995. Printed on Konica Paper. Two copies held.btm, ballarat, esco, tram 12 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Photograph/s, Austin Brehaut, 23/09/2004 12:00:00 AM
Colour print of Peter Perry heat gunning the paint from the side panels of No. 40 in the depot on 27/9/2004. Photo taken by Austin Brehaut, on Kodak Royal Paper with a label giving details on the rear.On a label fixed to the top of the photograph. "Peter Perry at work on no. 40 27.9.04."depot, btm, tramcar preservation, tram 40 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, 27/02/1972 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about the demolition and removal of buildings from the SEC depot Wendouree Parade.Black and white photograph of No. 28 partly outside the SEC depot during a BTPS work day. Photos most likely taken on 27/2/1972 - see Reg Item 1177 and 3353 for a similar set. trams, tramways, depot, secv, btps, tram 28 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, B. Prentice, early 1973
Yields information the construction of the depot fan by the BTPS and the various stages of the work.Black and white photograph of trams 26 and 27 on the depot fan, early 1973 after the completion of the crossover but before overhead erected. Bob Prentice photograph. See - 1972-73 Annual Report - list of dates."Bob Prentice" in ink on the rear.trams, tramways, depot construction, btps, tramcars, tram 26, tram 27 -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LYDIA CHANCELLOR COLLECTION: 'TARAXALE' BEVERAGE BOTTLE LABELS
A set of bottle labels in a plastic bag. 'The XXTH Century Beverage non-intoxicating Taraxale registered. Brewed (without yeast) from the Dandelion & other herbs by the Taraxale Brewing Co. Depot, City Market Bendigo.'industries, 'tarax', lydia chancellor, collection, industry, manufacturing, drink, alcohol, pethard family, george pethard, cordial, bendigo, 'tarax, ' taraxale brewing co. depot city market bendigo, labels, bottles