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Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Photograph/s, Warren Doubleday, mid 1997
Has a strong association with a BTM/BTPS volunteer - 1990's and conservation works undertaken by the BTM. Colour photographs of work on ESCo No.12 showing the side framing on the tram. Photo mid 1997, before July 1997 as more framing had been installed - see Reg Item 4092. Photo by Warren Doubleday. Printed on Kodak Paper. See July 1997 Fares Please!btm, esco, reconstruction, tram 12 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, H&B, "Shoppee Square Ballarat", c1910
Photograph - looking west from the Snows building showing "Shoppee Square" area and a ESCo tram westbound. Shows the various statues in the central median strip along with the garden beds and iron railings. On the rear is a message about celebrating Christmas - with a lemon squash. Published by H&BYields information about the streetscape of Sturt St. and Shoppee Square.Postcard black and white, used, H&B, with a brown and cream border, slightly embossed photo.See image 2tramways, trams, esco, sturt st, shoppee's square -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Laminated - ESCo 18 Wendouree Parade
Photograph of Electric Supply Co. of Vic (ESCo) Ballarat tram 18 in Wendouree Parade with the Gardens Kiosk in the background. Tram has a roof advertisement for Monosylk hosiery. There is a safety zone sign and two gentlemen standing alongside. The safety zone and line markings are unusual in Ballarat where passengers alighted or boarded on the lake side of the roadway. A related item could be 5904 which shows ESCo tram 9 offloading passengers on the "wrong side" for Ballarat at this location and a sign in position. Possibly a special event or a trial. Photo possibly mid 1920sYields information about the use of a safety zone sign in Ballarat and tram 18Laminated laser print photograph black and whitesafety zone, wendouree parade, ballarat, tram 18, esco, events, monosvlk -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, c1903
Black and White copy print contained within the Wal Jack Bendigo and Geelong Album, see Reg Item 5003 for more details. Copy print of a published photographs of an ESCo tramcar when the tramway opened in 1903, Copy print by Peter Duckett. On rear in ink "PWD."trams, tramways, bendigo, esco, opening -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard - 6 Views of Ballarat, c1908
Coloured Postcard with a set of 6 views of Ballarat - Sturt St with a double deck horse tram behind an ESCo tramcar, Central Median strip, Ballarat Post Office with an ESCo tram in the foreground, Gardens, Sturt St and Gong Gong Reservoir. Has a handwritten letter to a person near Newcastle and dated 28-12-1908(?). The stamp has been removed. Also has Ken Magor's hand stamp on the rear. No details of publisher. Demonstrates a multi view coloured postcard.Postcard - coloured - 6 panel views of Ballarat - divided back, used.See image i2 for letter and posting details.sturt street, post office, ballarat, tramways, lydiard st, esco, gong gong reservoir, gardens, botanical gardens -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Ephemera - Ticket/s, Wal Jack, Australia Worldwide tickets - Wal Jack Collection, 1950's
Has tickets from:, ESCo Ballarat, Form TYE 1-37 re acceptance of breach of regulations - to Reg Item 5017, Geelong tramways – 1, Bendigo ESCo – 3, SEC – weekly, tourist and parcel / newspaper, scholars, SEC – various, also for Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong and small packet of loose tickets., Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust, MTT Adelaide including a small packet of loose tickets, MMTB – 2 sheets including two loose sheets with tickets and a Pensioners Fare Concession Certificate for 61 – 62 with some loose tickets, NSW – Sydney two pages, NSW – Newcastle one page + 2 tickets, and four tickets for the Yass to Yass Junction tram Brisbane – two pages with one Rockhampton ticket, VR St Kilda Brighton, Parramatta steam tram – Sydney ferries limited, Hobart, Launceston, Wellington NZ – two pages, Christchurch, Wanganui, Auckland, New Plymouth - 1, Invercargill - 1, Johannesburg, Cape town, Pretoria – 1, Liverpool, Sheffield, London – 3 pages + loose 7 day go as you please issued in 1963 to Wal Larsen, Manchester, Newcastle and Gateshead, Bolton, South Lancashire Transport – 1, Oldham, Barry Corporation – Lancs, Birmingham, Llandudno, Salford, Stockport, Sunderland, South shields, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Darwen Corporation – 1, Dublin, Belfast, Blackpool – 1, South Wales – 1, Bradford, Dundee, Southampton, Plymouth, Leicester, Douglas, Southend on Sea, Croydon, Naples and other Italian ones, Antwerp – 1, Istanbul, St Quentin, Vevey Switzerland, Dusseldorf, Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Bangkok, Penang, Milwaukee Electric Railway, Los Angeles Railway – loose on page was a Tram pass for American Fleet celebration, 2/9/1908 to Eaglehawk - to Reg Item 5017, Market St Railway, Loose San Francisco Municipal railway, Puget Sound, St Louis Public Service Co., Sandwich, Tacoma Railway, Capital Transport Little Rock, Pittsburgh, Connecticut – New Haven, Twin City Lines, Chicago and West Towns, Chicago Aurora and Elgin, Elgin and Belvidere, Chicago Rapid Transits, Chicago Surface, ClevelandFeatures tickets from Australian and Overseas tramway systems. Collected by Wal Jack. Light brown paper covered album with dark red binding band, with off-white paper inside covers holding some 40 sheets of card on which tickets have been mounted using stamp hinges, captions in blue or black ink. Three supplementary sheets have been glued in as well. Has some 750 tickets including loose tickets. Reg Items 5017 (ESCo Employee Report outcome) and 5018 (Bendigo Tramways ticket for the visit of the personnel from the American Fleet - 1908) were loose in the album and have been separately collected. Some tickets in envelopes of clipped into the sheets.Individual captions for each group of tickets from a city.trams, tramways, tickets, ballarat, melbourne, usa, uk trams, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, No. 3 Ripon St - Ballarat A, 16/03/1935
Photograph of ESCO Ballarat No. 3. Shows tram with blinds drawn, covers over the wooden slats to prevent people standing on them at either end of the tram, beneath the blinds, has "Enter Front Entrance" sign. Tram has the destination of "City", See Notes for various copy history. Yields information about Ballarat ESCo. No. 3 in a modified form and the nature of the modifications.Black and white photograph, and copy negativeRay Pearson's captions included in the scanned images., .2 - Wal Jack's notes are "Ballarat 'old type' No. 3, Ripon St 16-3-1935, (1905 - 1935). W. Jack T2"trams, tramways, esco, ballarat, tram 3 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, "High Street Eaglehawk", c1905
Printed coloured postcard of a view of High St Eaglehawk with the Town Hall in the background. An ESCo Bendigo tram, possibly No 8 is returning to Bendigo. On the rear is a message to a person in Collingwood saying that this is the third of three views of Eaglehawk - see also item 9082.Yields information about Eaglehawk Bendigo and ESCo trams.Postcard - colour divided back usedHand written message written on the rear - card 3tramways, trams, bendigo, eaglehawk, esco, high st -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, "Alexandra Fountain Bendigo", 1900s
Printed postcard with a coloured image of the Alexandra Fountain, Bendigo, Charing Cross looking North East. An ESCo tram is on the left side, but the number is not visible. In the background are the building for J R Edwards which has a large clock on top and C Plumbe.Demonstrates a Bendigo postcard featuring the Alexandra Fountain and buildings at Charing Cross.Postcard colour - divided back - used addressed to a person at the Diorama Coy. Glitter or sparkles have been added to the postcard around the base of the fountain and on the fountain itself.tramways, trams, bendigo, alexandra fountain, charing cross, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - ESCo tram in Sturt St, 1920c
Photo shows an ESCo tram at the corner of Doveton and Sturt St, possibly No. 18. The Town Hall is in the distance. The tram has forward lean or sag indicating collapsed springs on the No. 21E truck. Has adverts for Suttons Music store and Bushells teas.Yields information about ESCo trams during the 1920s and their operating condition.Light card photograph held on sheet 8416 by four photo corners.trams, tramways, sturt st, doveton st, esco, 21e truck -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Illustration, "Sturt Street Ballarat to-day", c1905/6
Set of two views from an illustrated publication on Ballarat. 1 - Illustration - "Sturt Street Ballarat to-day" looking east from the City Fire station along Sturt St with an ESCo tram eastbound. The destination sign is mounted on the dash panel indicating c1905/1906. In the view are Ballarat's Buildings, Mount Warrenheip, J Taylor Redhouse Bakery, and on the bottom edge a sign for Marshall's. 2 - Illustration - Post Office Ballarat, to-day - with an ESCo tram turning from Sturt St into Lydiard St North, with the Post Office in the view along with many pedestrians and some horse drawn vehicles. See also item 6245 for a postcard of the same view.Yields information about Ballarat and city views in 1905/1906.Illustration cut from a magazine or publication - set of two - back to backThe second image has "1912" in pencil along the bottom edge.ballarat, illustrations, sturt st, esco, post office, lydiard st nth -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - Manuscript, Wal Jack et al, "A Brief History of the Tramways of Ballarat", 1963
Looks at the history of Ballarat, the development of the horse tram system, Ballarat East, Battery tram trials, and other details of the horse tram company. 106.2 - carbon copy, 9 quarto pages with a smaller front page in addition and two at the rear, (stapled) in the top left hand corner - part 2 of above, looking at the development of ESCo, tram conversion, SEC takeover, rehabilitation, SEC operation and acknowledgements. Each page has been imaged - images 7 to 19 Staples removed for scanning and not replaced. Each page has been numbered 1 to 19 on the rear in 5B pencil. See also Reg item 3289 and 6419 for similar documents.Yields information about the history of Ballarat Tramways written in 1962/63. Has a strong association with the authors, two well known tramway historians.106.1 - Carbon copy, 6 quarto pages, (stapled) in top left hand corner of an article titled ""A Brief History of the Tramways of Ballarat" written by Keith Kings and Wal Jack in 1963, for the 75th anniversary of the opening of the horse trams in Ballarat. Looks at the history of Ballarat, the development of the horse tram system, Ballarat East, Battery tram trials, and other details of the horse tram company. Each page has imaged - images 1 to 6 106.2 - carbon copy, 9 quarto pages with a smaller front page in addition and two at the rear, (stapled) in the top left hand corner - part 2 of above, looking at the development of ESCo, tram conversion, SEC takeover, rehabilitation, SEC operation and acknowledgements. Each page has been imaged - images 7 to 19 Staples removed for scanning and not replaced. Each page has been numbered 1 to 19 on the rear in 5B pencil. See also Reg item 3289 and 6419 for similar documents.trams, tramways, ballarat tramways, history, manuscript, horse trams, esco, sec -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Illustration/s, Ballarat Sturt St and crowded trailer
Colour illustration of eastbound Sturt Street tram with Town Hall in the background. ESCo tram towing former horse tram - Taken c1905 as tram does not appear to have a destination box fitted. Wal Jack has provided notes on the rear of the copy sent to Ken Magor, identifying the electric tram as No. 2 and the horse trailer as No. 4, the latter of which can be seen in the image. For a list and description of the same base image see Archives file - "Notes on ESCo Tram towing a heavily loaded trailer".Yields information about the ESCo electric trams towing former horse trams, passenger loading, colours schemes through the use of hand coloured and printed images.Colour illustration printed on plain paper and cut from a magazine or publication. Two copies held.On 2nd copy in pencil "Electric Supply Co of Victoria Ltd, Ballarat Tramways. No. 2 tram hauling No. 4 trailer, ex No 4 horse tram from Gardens in Sturt Street (from Doveton St), about 1912.trams, tramways, sturt st, horse trams, town hall, esco, tram 2, tram 4 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, mid 1920's
Black and white photograph contained within Reg. Item 2488, page 55, of four ESCo workers standing by an ESCo tram at the depot. Handwritten caption by H.P. James identifies the people as N. Edwards, Chris Hodgson (foreman), Tom Duke and "old" Bob Tryaskos. See Inscriptions for details about the advertisements in the tram window. Has part of the Suttons roof advertisement. Note Item Not formally Numbered. Image btm2507i2 shows position on page relative to items 2507 to 2512. High Res Images added 15/3/2011. Handwritten in Pencil under the photograph is "4 employees at Depot "N. Edwards, Chris Hodgson (foreman), Tom Duke and old Bob Tryaskos advertisements was a strong feature. The cars you see hanging in the window are Picture Show programmes either of Her Majesty's (Saturday and Wednesday) Pathes Alfred Hall also used this plan." Note the word "Coliseum" had been crossed out.tramways, trams, depot, suttons, esco, employees -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard - copy, "Sturt Street looking E., Ballarat" and "Happy New Years", c2000
Yields information about the appearance of Sturt St following the introduction of electric trams in 1905 and has a strong association with the work of Sovereign Hill and Rose Stereograph Co.Postcard reproduction - coloured - of an ESCo tram near the intersection of Armstrong St. and Sturt St. travelling west along the south side of Sturt Street with the Post Office and bank buildings on the corner of Sturt and Lydiard Sts in the view. Photo appears to be taken soon after opening of the electric trams, ESCo tram has destination board on the front dash of the tram. Card reproduced for Sovereign Hill Gold Mining Township by Rose Stereograph Co. of Glen Waverley c2000. Divided back type with caption, production and the Rose Co. symbol on the rear.trams, tramways, sturt st, ballarat, esco, rose postcards -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
photograph - Black & White - Bendigo water car - track cleaner, Peter Duckett, c1947
Photograph of the Electric Supply Co. (ESCo) Bendigo water tram in front of the depot with two workmen. The tram has been modified with rail scrubbing blocks to clean the head of the rails. Photo by Peter Duckett about 1947.Yields information about the first Bendigo track cleanerPhotograph - Black & White - Bendigo water car - track cleaner - about 1947Details the image on the rear of the print in ink.bendigo, tramcars, esco, water tram, scrubber tram, bendigo tramways, depot -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Ephemera - Ticket, W. Doubleday & S. Butler for BTM, BTM's celebration of 100 years of Electric Trams, 22/09/2005 12:00:00 AM
Ticket printed on 200 gsm white cardboard featuring ESCO opening postcard ticket (Reg. Item 608) for the BTM's celebration of 100 years of Electric Trams on 25/9/2005. Ticket No. 0001. Eight hundred were printed. On the front of the ticket has spaces for fare type and charge, electric tram and horse tram and on rear has BTM logo, validity date, purpose, ESCo postcard ticket history. Other Tickets collected are: 3148.2 - No. 600 (folded and punched) - used by WAD trams, tramways, btm, esco, tickets, postcards, 100 years of electric trams -
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Photograph - Digital image, March 1958
Yields information about the size of the water tank that was fitted to the ESCo built sprinkler tram for Ballarat.Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of the storage tank from the old or original ESCo sprinkler car, noted in use on a local farm at Invermay. No details as to source of print, Wal's notes the date as March 1958. See image i2 for rear of photograph.On rear of photograph in ink "Ballarat Tramways, Storage tank from old Sprinkler car, now in use on local farm at Invermay"trams, tramways, sprinkler tram, scrubber tram, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Colour Print/s - set of 5, 4/11/1990 12:00:00 AM
Yields information about an ESCo tram No. 22 on a property near Sebastopol in 1990 and the condition of the former tramcar.Set of 5 colour prints of ESCo 22 body in Sebastopol district, 4-11-1990. Photographed by Carolyn Dean at the time at the Bonshaw Restaurant, Sebastopol district. Printed on Kodak Paper. .1 - Close up of the number on the tramcar. .2 - .5 - views of the tramcar on the property. trams, tramways, esco, sebastopol type, trams -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Magazine - Illustration from a magazine of ESCo tram in Sturt St, c1910
Reproduction of a photo of a East bound ESCo car- prior to 1913, (no windscreens) B&W, with Town Hall in background. Cut out of a magazine or journal- titled "The Town Hall, Ballarat." Tram appears to be fitted with destination boxes. From an original postcard at Reg Item 8412.Yields information about Sturt St and ESCo trams c1910Illustration printed on paper showing a view of Sturt St.trams, tramways, sturt st, esco, town hall, tram 5 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard - Sturt Street looking east, Rose Stereograph Co, c1907
The photo postcard is a black and white version of a Rose Stereographic Co postcard - see item 7379, of Sturt St looking East from about Dawson St with the shops on the southern side and the Town Hall in the view. Has an ESCo tram in the bottom right-hand corner. Yields information about the appearance of Sturt St following the introduction of electric trams in 1905 and has a strong association with the work of Rose Stereograph Co.Postcard with a handwritten letter on rear. Dated 4/4/07See image 2 for details of the handwritten note on the rear. tramways, trams, sturt st, postcards, dawson st, esco -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - Digital image, Keith Kings, 27/10/1962 12:00:00 AM
Yields information the condition in 1962 of an old ESCo Tram body that was sold.Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of the interior of ESCo 10, rear of 36 Corbett St, Ballarat in 1962, photo taken by Keith Kings, No. N(y)(18) on Ilford paper. Has the details on the rear of the photograph. For rear of postcard - see image i2. On rear in ink "Ballarat / Interior of original electric tram No. 10 / Rear of 36 Corbett St, Ballarat East. " "Flash, 1/25, 516 + 12ft. 27/10/62" and Keith Kings stamp with No. N(y)(18)trams, tramways, esco, scrapped trams, tram 10 -
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Photograph - Digital image of ESCo tram 5 in Sturt St c1910
Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of ESCo No. 5 in Sturt St, east bound at Armstrong St. with the Town Hall, National Mutual building and other shops in the background. Has a number of horse drawn vehicles, and people on both the rear and front end of the tram.Yields information about Sturt St and ESCo trams.Digital image of a photograph that was made from a postcard.On rear in ink "B'rat ? No. 5 in Sturt St" and in bottom right hand corner, CRC Field of Sydney photograph stamp, "2203 ?" and "per C. Fere"trams, tramways, sturt st, esco, tram 5, town hall -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Photograph - BTM Display panels, Ballarat Tramway Museum (BTM), June 1994
Set of 2 colour prints showing two of the Museum display panels June 1994. The first photo shows moveable display panels that were installed in tram 39, salvaged from timetable boards at Flinders St station and the second is an interpretative panel for ESCo tram No. 12.Demonstrates methods used to display information at the Museum during 1994.Set of 2 colour photographs on Fujichrome paper.tramcars, esco, tram 12, displays, museum, tram 39 -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, "New Electric Power House Ballarat", c1905
Colour postcard of the ESCo power station in Ripon St and Wendouree Parade, titled "New Electric Power House Ballarat". Shows the chimney, buildings and the cooling tower facility. Later known as Ballarat A Divided back with space for correspondence and address. No details as to printing.trams, tramways, ballarat a power station, power station, esco, chimney stack -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, "Pall Mall Bendigo", 1910
Printed postcard of a busy scene at Charing Cross with two ESCo trams in the view. Many people are in the view along with the Alexandra Fountain, the Beehive building, Town Hall, the Shamrock Hotel, and on the left side a mine poppet head. The card was printed in GermanyDemonstrates a Bendigo postcard featuring Charing Cross and Pall Mall.Postcard black and white- divided back - used.in ink - dated 25/12/1910 from Arthur Grofrey wishing the receiver, J H Hooke - Bank of Australasia in Leongatha a Happy New Year.tramways, trams, bendigo, alexandra fountain, charing cross, esco, pall mall -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, Valentine & Sons Publishing Co, Valentines Series Postcard, No. 1394
Black and White postcard contained within the Wal Jack Bendigo and Geelong Album, see Reg Item 5003 for more details. Valentines Series Postcard, No. 1394, pasted into the album, of the Mall Bendigo, looking south, titled "The Mall Bendigo", has an ESCo tram in the photos. c1940's? trams, tramways, bendigo, esco, mall -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Postcard, Valentine & Sons Publishing Co, "Pall Mall Bendigo", c1910
Printed embossed postcard of a view from the Shamrock Hotel looking over Pall Mall, the Court House, and Town Hall. There is one ESCo tram in the view. Card by Valentine & Sons, printed in Great Britain. The card has a sprigg of wattle on the left-hand side and an emu in the bottom right-hand corner, which have been embossed into the card.Demonstrates a embossed card of a view over Bendigo Pall Mall and Government buildings.Postcard coloured - divided back - unused, embossed.Has the "K J Magor No. " stamp along the bottom edge on the rear.tramways, trams, bendigo, esco, pall mall -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Newspaper, The Argus, "Country News - Ballarat and District", 15/06/1909 12:00:00 AM
Digital image and transcript of a press cutting from The Argus, Country News section, 15/6/1909 - about the inquest into the death of Mr J H Bates who died while travelling on the footboard of a car, fell off and was dragged under a trailer. Magistrate Mr Murphy, ESCo - Mr H Troup, Thomas Glenn tram conductor, H Bates - deceased, R J Gribble for the relatives.accidents, esco, injuries -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Document - List, Wal Jack, "Electric Supply Co. of Victoria Ltd - Ballarat Tramway Rollingstock", 1950's
Yields information about the ESCo tram fleet and equipment.Handwritten list of ESCo Ballarat Tramcars, titled "Electric Supply Co. of Victoria Ltd - Ballarat Tramway Rollingstock", providing details of the number, type, builder, truck, motors seating, date in service, notes and when sold or scrapped. Also gives details of colours or livery, and controllers. Contained within Reg Item 5507 - Foolscap binder with green covers, black binding edge and metal clips. esco, tramcars, controllers