Issued to Officers (non traffic) and Clerical staff of the MMTB for free travel. Traffic Officers had their badges.Demonstrates the method of identifying MMTB Officers and Clerical staff who were entitled to free travel on trams.Round silver MMTB Officers and Clerical Staff badge - stamped No. "302" and with raised writing "M&M Tramways Board" with a silver ring through the top of the badge, to allow it to be attached to a key ring. On rear in raised letters "K. G. Luke Melb". badges, tramways, trams, mmtb, travel passes, staff

Used from Malvern depot in the time recording Bundy clocks that were located around the MMTB system. Related to the driver's shift number. Withdrawn from use when the Automatic Vehicle Monitoring (AVM) system came into use.Demonstrates a Bundy time recording clock key.Key - or Bundy Clock Key - brass, rounded head with drilled hole stamped "Tramways" on one side and "172" on the other side with a steel section that controlled the action of the recording clock and provided the means of stamping the number "172M" onto a paper tape. tramways, trams, mmtb, clocks, bundy clock, timetables, drivers, malvern depot, operations

Black and white photograph of the "new" and "old" tramway emergency vehicles side by side at South Melbourne depot - when the new vehicle was being fitted out and equipment Shows the registration numbers of the vehicle. These are known by their radio call signs R10. See 1004 and 2528 for other photos.Yields information about the Tramway Emergency vehicle R10.Black and white photograph with staple marks around border.tramways, trams, emergency, mmtb, r10 vehicle, recovery, aec, south melbourne depot

Set of 19 MMTB paper tram tickets of the 1950s. All numbers in black and generally printed with black ink unless noted. Many of them have Stamina Trousers adverts on rear generally with thoughts for the month or the name of a store. Includes two advertising John Randle City Hair Salons. 1 - 4d - on off white paper, C Uk 333270 2 - 5d - on off white paper, A Re 337260 3 - 5d - on light red paper, A Ef 605928 4 - 5d - City Section, on very light red paper, printed in red ink, D Se 190001 5 - 5d - City Section on pink paper, printed in red ink, A Of 728019 6 - 6d - on off white paper, printed in red ink, B Of 585288 7 - 6d - on off white paper, printed in red ink larger size than that above - B Ed 059468 8 - 6d - City Section, on very light red paper, printed in red ink, A Md 590002 9 - 6d - City Section, on off white paper, printed in blue ink, B Vf 496283 10 - 6d - City Section, on light red paper, printed in red ink, A Lf 609035 11 - 7d - on orange paper, B Nd 304143 12 - 9d - on grey paper, A Fb 411414 13 - 10d - on off white paper, printed in blue ink - B N 227003 - note the value has been printed in reverse. 14 - 10d - red paper, B U 472173 15 - 1/1 - green paper, B N 626610 16 - 1/2 - orange paper, A Hb 424870 17 - 1/6 - yellow paper, B Ad 138958 18 - 1/9 - blue paper, B Ab 461351 19 - 2/- - pink paper, A Ac 899940 Yields information about the value and colours of Melbourne tram tickets in use prior to Decimal conversion in 1966.Set of 19 paper or flimsy paper tickets MMTB of varying colours and values.tramways, tickets, melbourne, mmtb, city section, stamina trousers, john randle hair salons.

MMTB paper transfer ticket that was issued by the conductor / or bus driver to enable a transfer between tram and bus services. Has the transfer points or routes listed with the conditions of use listed on the rear. Number C GH E 546278 - issued by the Glen Huntly depot.Yields information about the Transfer tickets used by the Glen Huntly tram depot.Paper flimsy ticket MMTB with purple and black printing.tramways, tickets, melbourne, mmtb, transfer tickets, glen huntly, glenhuntly depot

Information card for tram crews about the phone numbers to ring, either Radio Centre or Carlton Control (electrical) in the event if an incident. Gives the phone numbers, hours, and a public number. Has both 6 digit and 7 digit numbers.Demonstrates a tram crew information card regarding contact phone numbers.Document - printed card on manila paper.mmtb, radio centre, carlton control, tramways

Timetable board for Camberwell Junction Batman Ave route 70, detailing times that services were scheduled to depart the Junction. Probably used until replaced by The Met style signs in the mid-1980s.Demonstrates a timetable board style used by the MMTB in the 1970s and early 1980s.Board made up to display tramway timetables for attachment to a post comprising heavy galvanised steel backing sheet with two small channels either end, spot welded to the steel back, front painted in green with the letters "M&M.T.B" in yellow paint, perspex sheet at the front, secured by 6 Allen screws with nuts on rear, containing a typed timetable sheet - for Camberwell Junction for Batman Ave timetable - undated. tramways, map, batman ave, camberwell junction, route 70, timetable

Ticket printed on off white paper, with blue printing. Number printed in black. Has been overprinted in black at top "City Section". Ticket No. 358275 and 271836 Each ticket has section numbers on either side for In or Out trips.Demonstrates the type of ticket used at the time decimal currency introduction, early 1966.Dual currency Melbourne tram ticket printed at the time of the conversion to Decimal currency; 7d or 6c. Two copies held.trams, tramways, mmtb, tickets, city section, decimal currency

Ticket allowed Scholars or school children to travel on MMTB trams/buses to attend schools at a concession rate. Inside gives issue details - issued to a person in Glen Iris, four sections, for use during 1962, from Camberwell Junction to the Methodists Ladies College in Barkers Road Cost 44/- Ticket No. 5125 and 5602. See item 7776 for the 3rd term ticket from the same donor.Demonstrates a Scholar's ticket to allow a student to travel from Camberwell Junction to Barkers Road.Set of two clothed-backed paper ticket, printed as a MMTB "Scholar's Concession Ticket", 1st term - red, 2nd term green. Gives condition of use on the outside cover. Details filled in of the person's name address etc.mmtb, tickets, schools, scholar's tickets, school tickets

The route maps give for each tram, including cable trams, and bus routes, a map of the fare structure, sections, all-night routes, details of transfers and tickets such as combined tickets. Not dated as such but sheet 1 has a note regarding the East Brighton - St Kilda route that it was out of date from 16/10/1938.Yields information about the MMTB fare structure for tram, and bus routes during the 1930s.Album brown card heavy card coves, secured with two interscrews containing a type index, 33 cartridge paper sheets with ink drawings and six loose sheets. Hand drawn in black, red and green ink.mmtb, tramways, fares, maps, routes, buses, cable trams

Dedication of the Shrine of Remembrance - 11 November 1934 Documents relating to tram arrangements the above event. 1 - Program - "Dedication of the Shrine of Remembrance by His Royal Highness Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester" 2 - News paper, titled: "300,000 Pay Homage at the Shrine of Remembrance" The Argus, Monday 12 November 1934. 4 pages 3 - Handwritten notes for the event 4 - Set of memos from DJ Davidson, Dist Traffic Superintendents informing of event. Covers rolling stock requirements and trip requirements and lists inspectors and additional staff required.trams, tramways, instructions, events, reports, inspectors, shrine, shrine of remembrance

Staged photograph to demonstrate the lifting of a bicycle onto a W class tram and Z class tram and the difficulty of fitting it on board.Yields information about social inclusion Set of four black and white photographs with surnames of two, three and four males featured written in inkHandwriting illegibletrams, publicity, bicycle on tram, social inclusion

Orange paper ticket for 1/- for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board.1-11 Melb & Metropolitan--- This ticket ----- 1/- D L 801029|REVERSE Ask for Stamina --- Shall He Reap.documents, tickets

Arthur Henry Miers, pictured in the photograph played for cricket, football and baseball teams in Kew for a number of decades in the first half of the twentieth century. He was born on 22 November 1901, the son of Rodolph Theophilus Miers (1874-1951) and Margaret Frances (Margaretta) Fry (1875-1958). He had two brothers, Rodolph Cecil Miers (1904-80) and Charles Wilfred Miers (1906-88), and a sister Marjorie Elizabeth Miers (1911-84). Arthur Miers died in Kew on 25 January 1966, and after his body was cremated, his body was interred in the Mausoleum of Boroondara General (Kew) Cemetery.Rare early photograph of a Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board cricket team from 1926-9A Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMMTB) cricket team and officials posed in front of a red brick grandstand, mounted on cardDonor note: CRICKET - PHOTO 8" X 6" / ARTHUR MIERS 2ND FROM RIGHT - BACK ROW / VINCENT KELLY - BENDIGOcricket teams, arthur miers, m&mtb

Fourth edition of this text that describes Melbourne's tram car fleet. Includes brief description of each type, photographs and a summary history. Has many photographs of the various tramcars associated with relevant text. On front cover is a photo of Z3 at the Burwood terminus. Written by Norm Cross, with R. G. Henderson as editor and published by the Australian Electric Traction Association.Yields information about the MMTB fleet and its history.Book - "Destination City" - 104 pages + card , printed on gloss paper- centre stapled - with sub title "Electric Tramway Rolling Stock of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board", 4th edition, 1981. trams, tramways, melbourne, tramcars, mmtb

This file contains one item. 1. Three black and white photographs of four Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board buses, dates and photographer unknown. Photographs are of buses on the Melbourne – Brighton Road route, Melbourne – Elsternwick via High Street route, and Caulfield – Ripponlea – Spencer Street route. Depicted on the side of two buses is an emblem, possibly of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board.buses, motor vehicles, public transport, caulfield, elsternwick, vehicles, insignia, transport routes, thoroughfares, information an exchange objects, melbourne metropolitan tramways board, bus routes

Photocopy - 16 sheets report - "Proposed New Tramway Lines - upon which the Trust has been asked to Report With a View of Constructing and Operating the Same in Connection with its Undertaking" by the Prahran Malvern Tramways Trust - dated August 1915. Reports on possible tramways: Toorak Road - Prahran to Burke Road Hawthorn - 1.85miles Glen Eira Road - Murrumbeena Railway station to Barkly St St Kilda - 5 miles Brighton and Moorabbin - Glen Huntly Road to Sandringham - 7.4 miles South Melbourne and St Kilda - Princes Bridge - 4.85 miles Princess St and Willsmere Road Kew - 1 mile. Tooronga Road Malvern - 1 mile Brighton Road St Kilda - .83 miles Looks at the population required to justify tramways, income per head, cost of construction and operation, each line and how it fits with the necessary criteria for a profitable operation. Appendix looks at existing tramways, population statistics, and tramways performance in other cities. Photocopy made from original documents. .1 - Original copy from donation of Norm Cross added 10-9-2018 - complete with stapled blue cover, and fold out appendix sheet.Has the stamp on the rear of the first page "The property of the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Ltd." On the top right hand corner of the second page, has the stamp "Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board"trams, tramways, pmtt, new tramway, toorak rd, glen eira, south melbourne, st kilda, kew, moorabbin, sandringham

Digital image of a Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board MMTB No. 15 truck or bogie photographed at Preston Workshops. Note the motor suspension bearing oil caps are opened. Marked for possible use under No. 1 end of tram 747.trams, tramways, bogies, trucks, mmtb, preston workshops

Enamel sign - steel back, white enamel background with black letters, "Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board" / A reward of Two pounds will be paid by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board for information leading to the conviction of any person or persons wilfully damaging or interfering with this apparatus." Has the marks from the sign being supported during the enamelling process on the rear. Has damage around each corner and has four small holes in the bottom right hand corner, suggesting another sign may been attached to this one. Used on Bundy clocks.trams, tramways, signs, mmtb, behaviour, bundy clock

Framed set of photographs of Melbourne W1 421decorated as an "illuminated" tramcar for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Victoria April 21 to May 12, 1927 and the opening of Canberra on May 9, 1927. Tram identified in the 4th edition of Destination City. Note Tasmania is missing from the map on the side of the tram. Two photographs of the tram, a three quarter front on view and a side on view have been framed within a black wooden frame, protected by a glass sheet, with an off white cardboard sheet cut out for the photographs to frame them, cardboard backing sheets with an ink inscription under the two photographs. The rear backing sheet has been tacked onto the wooden frame. Images show the overall object, the two photographs, the text and the rear of the object. Images i2 and i3 updated for scan of the actual negs. Page 43 of Destination City 4th EditionIn Indian ink "Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramway Board's / illuminated Tram Car, during the visit / of the Duke and Duchess of York to Victoria, / April 21st to May 12th 1927 / and the opening of Canberra on May 9th 1927".trams, tramways, illuminated trams, decorated trams, royal visit, melbourne, duke of york, preston workshops, w1 class

Printed document - headed "Legislative Assembly", first reading dated 16/11/1943, titled "A Bill to authorize the Construction by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board of an Electric Tramway from South Melbourne to Melbourne.". Details the route: Sturt and Hanna Streets to William St via Queens Bridge St and Little Flinders Street - notes can be of open ballast construction and which authority responsible for costs. Notes part is cable tram conversion.trams, tramways, mmtb, south melbourne, hanna st, conversion, william st, queens bridge st, acts of parliament

Black and white photograph, (not mounted), of Pall Mall with Myer store, Allan's Walk. Former Colonial Bank, former National Bank. Then Beehive Building, Tram No. 6. Tram - single truck, dropend saloon car No. 6. Built for Melbourne metropolitan Tramways Board. Converted for one person operation in Ballarat before coming to Bendigo. James Lerk 17/12/1999.place, streetscape, pall mall

Act of Victorian Parliament, 8 pages, No. 6594 - "An Act to provide for the Grant of certain Lands to the After Care Hospital, the Melbourne District Nursing Service, the Victorian Civil Ambulance Service, St Georges Hospital, the Royal Talbot Colony for Epileptics, the Ballarat Orphanage and the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board respectively. Page 4 and 7 detail a block of land that the Board could have purchased for a major bus depot in Footscray Road for 60,175 pounds.trams, tramways, tramways, acts of parliament, mmtb, buses, depot, footscray rd, construction

Document titled "A descriptive history of MMTB buses 1923 - 1983" compiled by Ross Baird for the Bus and Coach Society of Victoria. Presented in a date and event history format for bus services and routes operated by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board from 1923 to 1983 when services were taken over by The Met.Yields information about the MMTB Bus services.Document - 16 A4 sheets, printed.mmtb, buses, bscv

Journal of Australian Electric Traction Association. Volume XX, No. 1, January 1965, 16 pages. History of document: Part of 'Basil Miller Tramways Collection'. Cover picture shows the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramway Board's new supervisory electrical control room at Carlton near city. This photograph was taken during a visit to the incomplete centre during the A.E.T.A.'s Easter Convention, 1964.Pub: Australian Electric Traction Association, Printer: O'Loughlin Bros. Pty. Ltd., Sydney NSWdocument

Ten page Foolscap, duplicated report or paper, titled "Moving People". Delivered as an address by R. J. H. Risson, Chairman, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, August 1954. Ten sheets stapled in top left hand corner. Looks at transport in general, Melbourne's situation, road costs, rolling stock, power and labour costs, traffic congestion, costs and fares, peak load and staggering of hours. Makes references to 3 charts, not included with paper.trams, tramways, melbourne, mmtb, traffic control, tramcars