Thirty two page book, centre stapled, art paper, titled "Australian Electric Transport Museum / St Kilda, South Australia", guide book for the Museum, printed 1974. Gives information on AETM's exhibits, including ex Ballarat trams 21 and 34. Has maps of the AETM, Adelaide, Trolley buses system and brief history of Adelaide public street transport.trams, tramways, adelaide, trolley buses

ill, maps, p.32.non-fictionDetails of the rollingstock collection at the Australian Electric Transport Museum - St Kilda South Australiatramway museum - south australia, railway and tramway preservation - australia

Ill, maps, p.50.non-fictionFacsimile production of "The Tramways of Adelaide" published by The Critic, March 9, 1909. It is a complete illustrated and historical souvenir of the Adelaide tramways from the inception of the horse trams to the inauguration of the present magnificent electric trolley car systemtramways - adelaide, horse trams - adelaide

Ill, p.18.non-fictionA guide to to the Australian Electric Transport Museum. (S.A.) Inc., St. Kilda, South Australia featuring the various transport modes .tramways - adelaide, transport - adelaide

264.1 Twenty page booklet titled "Adelaide's Changing Transport - a guide to the AETM at St Kilda. Black and white photos, map, covers, brief history of Adelaide's transport and some Museum exhibits 264.2 - within book - Letter from Garry Ord to N.Gower dated 7 august 1967 on Australian Broadcasting letterhead, Queensland branch, noting replacement of trolley buses in Adelaide and returning booklet. 264.3 - newspaper cutting within booklet, dated 22/11/1968, noting 10th anniversary of closure of Adelaide street trams and referring to an "in Memorial" notice. Items .2 and .3 were inside booklet, clipped together with a paper clip that was going rusty.trams, tramways, adelaide, trams, trolley buses, buses, aetm, st kilda museum.

In house periodical produced by the AETM for its members and friend, pre-printed covers and page 2, with Vol No. and date hand stamped. Photo of A1 on front cover. 307.1 - Vol. 1 No. 4 - August 1966, features items on "Green Goddess" Trolley bus, reports, display in No. 42, , replacement parts and visit of MTT Publicity Officer. 307.2 - Vol 1 No. 6 - June 1967, Museum to open in July, Assistance from the EW&S, AGM, new members (includes N. Gower), Trolley bus No. 417 and electrical equipment ex Rapid Bay. Image added 16.11.2013trams, tramways, aetm, sth australia., adelaide

Ill, p.20.non-fictionThe story of the horse and electric tramway to Henley beachtramways - adelaide, horse tramways - adelaide

Information on trams. Includes small photo of Trams 24 & 26, Map of Bendigo Tram routes 1972and 1996, Ballarat No 26 tram, S 164 tram, and No 38 tram. Mentioned is the individual history and where they can be found, operating and non operating trams, different classes of trams. Geelong's Birney Cars, two of which came to Bendigo and the Type G (Birney Safety Cars). Other information includes Nos, First introduced, Last withdrawn, Electrics (motors), Size and Seating/Crush Load. (8 pages).bendigo, history, long gully history group, the long gully history group - bendigo's tram system, battery trams, steam trams, electricity supply company of victoria, toastrack trams, david bromage, bendigo tramways, state electricity commission of victoria, the bendigo trust, chris brownbill, bendigo talking tram, david hoadley, prahran and malvern tramways trust, hawthorn tramways trust, fitzroy northcote and preston tramways trust, melbourne brunswick and coburg tramways trust, north melbourne electric tramway and lighting co, sydney tramway museum, tramway museum of victoria, railpage australia, ballarat vintage tramway, andrew cox, russell jones, australian electric transport museum, birney cars, j g brill & co, bob hawke, adelaide municipal tramways trust, tim blythman, bill winn, john radcliffe

Information on O Class Trams, First introduced, Last Withdrawn, Electrics, Size and Seating, W2 with a small photo, where they can be found, some went to the USA, W5 with a small photo, W6 and the Bendigo Toastrack Tram with Nos, Introduced, Withdrawn, Electrics, Size and Seating/Crush Load. Also listed is where other trams can be seen. Also mentioned some early history of Bendigo, The Heritage Walk, The Central Deborah, Sandhurst Town, the early route from Melbourne to Bendigo, Creswick, Castlemaine and the Old Market. (7 pages).bendigo, history, long gully history group, the long gully history group - trams information, prahan and malvern tramway trust, hawthorn tramway trust, melbourne and metropolitan tramways board, australian electric transport museum, david hoadley, tramway musuem of victoria, hawthorn tram depot, david bromage, sydney tramway museum, bendigo tramways, museum of transport and technology nz, whiteman park tramway museum, haddon tramway museum, the old canberra tram company, ballarat vintage tramway, bendigo toastrack tram, kilmore cable tramway, railway museum, scienceworks, tasmanian transport museum, launceston tramway museum society, ballarat vintage tramway, central deborah gold mine, chinese joss house, castleton, sandhurst, shamrock hotels, dai gum san wax museum, post office, law courts, alexandra fountain, beehive store, fortuna villa, sandhurst town

Yields information about the delivery of an ex Ballarat tram to a tramway Museum.Colour 35mm slide in a white cardboard slide holder of Ballarat No. 34 being unloaded at the AETM site on 24-9-1971, Photo John Radcliffe. Ballarat No. 21 can be seen in the background on a truck waiting to be off-loaded. In the adjacent slide position is a note to this effect. This piece of paper was wrapped around the slide. Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler. See also Reg Items 7988i1 and i2 for other photographs.Written around the slide in ink "Unloading Ballarat car 34 at Australian Electric Transport Museum (SA) Inc St Kilda SA - Ballarat car 21 at rear - 24-9-1971. J. C. Radcliffe photo."tramways, trams, ballarat, aetm, sale of trams, adelaide, tram 34

Yields information about the delivery of an ex Ballarat tram to a tramway Museum.Colour 35mm slide in a white cardboard slide holder of Ballarat No. 21 being unloaded at the AETM site on 24-9-1971, Photo John Radcliffe. Ballarat No. 34 has been off loaded - See Reg Item 6515. In the adjacent slide position is a note to this effect. This piece of paper was wrapped around the slide. Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler.Written around the slide in ink "Unloading Ballarat car 21 at Australian Electric Transport Museum (SA) Inc St Kilda SA - car 34 already unloaded at right - 24-9-1971. J. C. Radcliffe photo."tramways, trams, ballarat, aetm, sale of trams, adelaide, tram 21

Newspaper clipping from The National Times, mid 1972 about the securing of a Birney tram by The Bendigo Trust following the attempt by the Adelaide based Australian Electric Transport Museum (called Tramway Society) to remove the tram. Cutting not dated. Quotes Dennis O'Hoy. This had large political overtones, as the tram had been given to the AETM by the SEC. Another Birney which was rebuilt from a scrapped one by the Trust was later given to the AETM.bendigo, birney, aeta, loading trams

Photocopy of a letter from John Radcliffe past President of the Australian Electric Transport Museum, Adelaide written on 5 January 1995 concerning the two Adelaide horse trams sold to Ballarat for use on the Sebastopol line following the Sebastopol fire in Oct. 1909. Notes the types of cars that could have been sold and other sources of information. Attached to the photocopy, not from John Radcliffe but from Alan's files are 14 drawings/sketches of Adelaide horse trams - side and end elevations, prepared by LSK.trams, tramways, horse trams, adelaide, sebastopol, depot fire

Originally published by The Critic Adelaide in 1909, with facsimile production by the Australia Electric Transport Museum c1989. Features photographs of construction of the electric tram system in Adelaide, Members and Officers of the Tramway Trust, construction details, electrical equipment details and depots. Has advertisements for local suppliers including Messrs Forward, Down & Co. (Steel fabricators), Duncan and Fraser (tram builders), Newton McLaren Ltd (electrical equipment), James Martin & Co. (locomotive and equipment) and Millars' Karri and Jarrah Co.Yields information about the construction of Adelaide's Electric Tramways in 1909.Fifty four page book, A4 landscape format, with brown stipple card covers saddle stapled, printed on gloss paper, titled "The Tramways of Adelaide". trams, tramways, adelaide, mtt, tramway construction, electrical systems

Forty page book including paper covers titled "Destination Circular Quay" edited by Jack Richardson, in association with N.L. Chinn and R.L. Young and published by Traction Publications, Destination Series No. 3 in 1958. Briefly details the tramways in Sydney operated by the Department of Government Transport, details each class of passenger rolling stock, with photographs, experimental cars, trailers, specialist cars, works trams, trolley buses, tram car ferry, Moore Park junction arrangements, notes re the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a map of the network in the near CBD area of Sydney and on the rear cover, a map of Sydney. Provides information on the South Pacific Electric Railway (reference Australian Electric Transport Museum), and other publications of Traction Publications. See htd1307i2.pdf for a scan of the book. Includes many photographs. .1 - Book - 56 pages + card cover, printed on semi gloss paper, centre stapled, with two colour covers - as for above. Printed 1967. Has a map of the Sydney system on the inside or the rear cover. The rear cover has a list of publications of the publisher. See htd1307i2.pdf for a scan of the book.On the front cover in black ink "Ex ARHS Archives Vic"trams, tramways, sydney, nswgt, tramcars

Made by Transit Australia to record all the magazine issues between 1946 and 2018 when it ceased publication. Provides a full set of the magazines published by the AETA later Transit Australia.Set of 3 CD's in clear plastic covers containing pdf copies: CD1 - Tram Tracks - 1946 to 1949 and Electric Traction 1949 to 1970 CD2 - Electric Traction - 1971 to 1986 and Transit Australia - 1987 to 1995 CD3 - Transit Australia - 1996 to 2018transit australia, tramways, buses, public transport, cd, electric traction, tram tracks, australia, aeta

Ron Bridger was an avid collector of items related to transport, predominately Trams. These items include newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, reports, timetables, fares prices plus special items relating to events. Items from Melbourne and regional Victoria, interstate - Adelaide and Sydney, plus overseas, make up this collection. Item is a white paper bag specifically for the Centenary of the Box Hill - Doncaster Electric Tramway. Dates and times for this celebration are printed on the bag. Inside are numerous items related to this occasion. .a) Information sheets No 1: Public Street Transport in Melbourne. by N.W. Maddocks No.2: The role of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board in the history of street transport. by N.W. Maddocks No.3: Why have tickets? (The Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Inc) No.4: The historic trams of Victoria. (The Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Inc.) No.5: Driver's cab - Melbourne W3 Tramcar. (The Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Inc.) No.6: Henry James Hilton - Member Institute of Engineers 1891. From notes by Merrick Hilton (grandson) 1987. No.7: Where is this tram going?. (The Tramway Museum Society of Victoria Inc.) .b) Small yellow booklet - "Australia's First Electric Tram: The story of the Doncaster and Box Hill Electric Road" by J.K.Moir. Printed Melbourne 1940. .c) Postcard - black and white; Shows the Opening of the Box Hill-Doncaster Electric Tramway - 14 October 1889. The reverse side gives a brief history. It operated from October 1889 until January 1898. .d) Small white paper bag with title stamped on it. Inside two small yellow tickets for Centenary Tramway Exhibition. A sticker for the Centenary also included. .e) Pamphlet giving a brief outline of the Box Hill-Doncaster Electric Tramway. Contains an article that appeared in "The Reporter" dated 17 October 1989 stating the importance of this enterprise - "Footprints in the sands of time......." .f) Yellow flyer advertising a book "The First Electric Road" by Melbourne architect and historian, Robert Green. This will be a limited edition and due for release in late November 1989. Order form on reverse of the flyer to be sent to John Mason Press. White bag labelled - Box Hill - Doncaster Electric Tramway - Centenary. Numerous items relating to exhibition collected and placed in paper bag. Date: 19th - 28th October, 1989. Daily, 10am - 4pmbox hill-doncaster electric tramway, memorabilia, centenary exhibition, 1889-1989, public street transport, why have tickets?, tramway museum society of victoria, melbourne w3 tramcar, henry james hilton, n m maddocks, merrick hilton, australia's first electric road, j k moir, the first electric road, robert green, historian, postcard-black and white, opening of tramway, 14 october 1898, centenary sticker, ron bridger collection, as box 48a

Set of two colour prints of ex Adelaide Birney No. 302 (former Bendigo tram 29) in Melbourne for the 1982 Australia Day Transport Pagent. The first photo is at Swanston and Flinders St with Young and Jackson Hotel in the background and the second at Flinders and Market Streets with a Hitachi Silver train on the railway viaduct. Not known who took the photographs. See Feb. 1982 issue of Electric Traction for a note regarding this tram in Melbourne for the Pagent.Yields information about Bendigo No. 29 as Adelaide 302 in Melbourne Set of two Colour prints - on plain papertramcars, tram 29, bendigo, birney tramcars, flinders st, swanston st, pageant

A4, 208 page book, soft cover bound, on public road transport in Adelaide, 1836 to 1958. Contents include Adelaide history, railways, horse buses and trams, electric trams, buses, trolley buses, social history and tram closure. Has 23 pages of photographs. Also has contents, references, maps and an index. Bound with red card covers. Written by J.C.Radcliffe and C.J.M.Steele.Inside front cover in black ink "Neville M.Gower / Greenacres / Sth. Australia"trams, tramways, adelaide, tramways, transit systems

86 page A4 sized bound document - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of Australasian Tramway Museums, Whiteman Park, Perth W.A. 29 May to 4 June 1992. Has heavy card covers, wire bound with printed title details in blue on the front cover. Has ISSN number. Prepared by the Perth Electric Tramway Society. See item 1254 for photo of conference delegates. - notes should be on page 3. Arrived loose. See also the COTMA website for a full pdf copy of this document. Contents: Acknowledgements Participants Conference Programme keynote Address - Urban Transport: What does the past tell use about the future? Papers W class Status Report - L. Jean The place of Tram Museums in the International and Australian Tram Movement Our Cultural Heritage Management of Rolling Stock Driver Training at Bendigo Tramways "Trolley Wire" Collection Policies Occupational Health & Safety Relationships with Local Government Corrosion - Electrolysis Promotion Accreditation and Its effect on Tramway Museums in NSW Workshops COTMA - what is Needed? Membership for the Young Archives Conservation Management Review COTMA Electrical Operations Rules Visits and Tours Reports Museum Directory.Inside front cover has BTPS stamp and Mail received - 14/11/1994 and item no. "5154" in blue ink.trams, tramways, cotma, perth, proceedings, conferences

Negative No. N351 and black and white print made by a laser printer (stored in folder ) of tram W7 1001 on AETA tour (Australian Electric Traction Association) on 25/6/1955 entering shed roads at the then new East Preston depot. Tram has AETA tour signs and the slogan "Electric Transport a Necessity - Protects your investment, builds your city, creates business". In route number box is letter "B". Negative scanned hi res and imaged updated 22/5/2020. trams, tramways, melbourne, preston depot, aeta tour, tram w7 1001

Negatives No. N352 and N353 and black and white prints made by a laser printer (stored in folder ) of tram SW6's 888 travelling to Preston Depot on AETA tour (Australian Electric Traction Association) on 25/6/1955. Tram has AETA tour signs and the slogan "Electric Transport a Necessity - Protects your investment, builds your city, creates business". In route number box is letter "B". Geoff Grant's envelope notes the photos as being taken from the cabin of SW6 887. 1615.1 - In Victoria Parade - note hedges 1615.2 - in Victoria St., North Richmond, just to the west of the railway overbridge. Negative scanned hi res and imaged updated 22/5/2020.trams, tramways, melbourne, victoria st, victoria parade, aeta tour, tram sw6 888

Book featuring photographs of Australian and Museum tramcars, includes Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong.Full colour book, 32 pages plus card cover, titled "Trams of Australia Vol 2 - A pictorial Presentation", published by Topmill Pty Ltd, Silverwater NSW c2008/9. Features colour photos of trams from Melbourne (VR and MMTB), Sydney, Rockhampton, Brisbane on the front cover and Ballarat and Bendigo on rear. Text written by Michael McGowan, internal photos, both Museum and pre-museum operational systems of Ballarat, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne (VR & MMTB), Geelong, Freemantle, reproduced postcards, Scrubber 8W in Swanston St, Ballarat Tramway Museum, Perth, Tasmanian Transport Museum, Perth Electric Tramway Society (PETS), Archer Park Rockhampton, Sydney Tramway Museum, Adelaide, Ballarat Santa Tram (1970)trams, tramways, ballarat, bendigo, geelong, melbourne, sydney, brisbane, fremantle, hobart, adelaide, perth, santa tram, myers

Report - approx. 55 A4 photocopied sheets - bound with white comb binding, with embossed leather imitation grey card covers, titled "Symposium 'Electric Traction Systems' ", presented by the Institution of Engineers Australia, Vic Div, Tues 6/5/1975. Contains three papers: 1 - "Electricity of Transportation" - R. G. Chapman, SEC 2 - "Electric vehicles for Street Transport:" - F. D. Snell - MMTB 3 - "Electric Railways" - A. Firth - VR Paper 2 looks at the history of the MMTB system, the W class tram, control systems, lack of new trams in the 1960's, ordering of the Z class tram, its specification and manufacture, 980, 1041 and other forms of public transport on roads - trolley buses, gadgetbahns, and lots of possibilities of new systems including battery vehicles.On rear in ink in top right hand corner "D. W. Lees"trams, tramways, reports, mmtb, tramcars, pcc class, z class, melbourne, history, trolley buses, electrical engineering, controllers

Thirty Two page book, A4 landscape format, saddle stapled, titled "100 years of Melbourne's Trams", published by the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association in 1985. Colour cover featuring drawings of Melbourne trams from cable trams to articulated electric trams. Has foreword by Tom Roper, Minister for Transport. Book published to celebrate the centenary of the opening of the first cable tram in Melbourne, 11/11/1885. Reviews the history of trams in Melbourne, cable trams, horse trams, Clapp, municipal tramways, electric trams, MMTB, buses, Preston Workshops, Wattle Park and the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Notes the MTA winning the tender to building the Kowloon - Canton Light Rail system and Melbourne's Automatic Vehicle Monitoring System. Has colour photos and sepia toned (black and white) photos throughout.trams, tramways, melbourne, mmtb, cable trams, mta, horse trams

One photo from an album belonging to JB McLean, of his voyage home from World War 1 in 1920 on the Ceramic. The photo is of the Museum in Bombay with electric trams in the foreground. The Ceramic departed Tillbury, UK 12th March and docked in Freemantle on 27th April 1920 and then went onto Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. The Ceramic was a transport vessel built in Belfast in 1913 for the White Star Line to transport frozen produce and apples from Australia to UK. It was taken over by the Australian Government for troop transport in October 1914 and could carry over 3,000 troops. This trip in 1920 there were 1467 on board, there were women and children as well as 439 soldiers returning home, one of whom was John 'Basil' McLean. Was with other World War 1 memorabilia that has come from Private John Basil McLean, 2nd Reinforcements, 37th Battalion, A.I.F. There was a large collection of postcards so he may have been collecting them as souvenirs. J.B. McLean (Service No. 13824) was from near Maffra, Victoria and enlisted on 22 January 1916. He embarked on 16 December 1916 for Europe. His full war record is available from AWM. He spent time with the Australian Field Artillery (Pack Section). At the end of the war he worked for a year at the A.I.F. Headquarters in London before returning to Australia on the 'Ceramic', arriving Portsea in 1920.A collection of items from John Basil McLean is in the archive. Kept as an indication of what founding legatees experienced in World War One and what they saw on the way home.Sepia photo of the Museum in Bombay glued to black cardboard in an album of photos from 1920.Handwritten caption 'Museum Bombay' in white ink.souvenir, world war one, jb mclean, ship, ceramic, bombay

Made by Transit Australia to record all the magazine issues between 1946 and 2018 when it ceased publication. No one wanted to take it over following the death of the editor.Provides a full set of the magazines published by the AETA later Transit Australia.Set of 3 CD's in clear plastic covers containing pdf copies: CD1 - Tram Tracks - 1946 to 1949 and Electric Traction 1949 to 1970 CD2 - Electric Traction - 1971 to 1986 and Transit Australia - 1987 to 1995 CD3 - Transit Australia - 1996 to 2018 transit australia, tramways, buses, public transport, cd, electric traction, tram tracks, australia, aeta

Series of three photos showing Z86 being taken by road to Orange, N.S.W. in connection with the Transportation Conference of the National Committee on Transportation of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, being held from 24th to 26th October. It left Preston on 20th October. (See Electric Traction Nov. 1977 p171) Published in The Sun newspaper Saturday 22-10-1977 - see item, 3129Yields information about the transport of Z86 to Orange for display at a conference.Set of three images of Z class tram being transported to Orange.Has Herald Sun Copyright stamp on rear of each print.tramways, transport, z class, tram 86, transporting trams, orange

The AETA published calendars on an annual basis through to 2005, promoting electric transport in Public Transport. In the background is the MTOCo Tramways Building.Yields information about the AETA promotional activities.Australian Electric Traction Association (AETA) Calendar for 1968, featuring a photograph of PCC 980 in Bourke St Melbourne. Gives contact details for the AETA divisions. Stapled to the sheet is a 12 sheet preprinted calendar for 1968 with various details of holidays etc. Has metal strips top and bottom and a folded clip for hanging,pcc class, calendars, aeta, bourke st, tram 980