12 page printed booklet with larger printed card cover - 5 photo pages, titled "Aberdeen Corporation Transport - Experimental" notes re tramcar, with design and other technical details - 2 staples. Provides detail of an experimental streamliner built for the Aberdeen tramways for its official launch on 12 July 1940. Alfred Smith was the General Manager. Record updated and images added 19/8/2013.trams, tramways, aberdeen trams, experimental tramcars, uk

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

Magazine cutting contained within Reg. Item 2488, page 31, titled "History of the Ballarat Tramways" from the Feb. 1939 issue of the "SEC Magazine". Report on a recent paper by H.P. James to the Historical Society about the experimental battery tram in Ballarat in October 1888. Notes that Duncan and Fraser input into the Julien Battery experiment, Mr. Bullimore the electrician and trails and problems with the track. Also has notes regarding tramways in Ballarat East Township. Accompanying the item are handwritten notes about the tramcar used and its fate. Attached in the top left hand corner of the item, sewn in, is a green ESCo 2d token. (See Reg item 1794 and 1943 for details and other samples) Note Item Not formally Numbered. Image btm2494i2 shows position on page relative to items 2494 to 2504Numerous on page 31 in ink and penciltrams, tramways, battery tram, duncan & fraser, trials, ballarat east, esco

Photograph shows a Dummy or Grip Car with glass windshields at either end of the gripman's compartment and the sides of the side passenger seats in the first year's of M&MTB administration. This proposed weather protection for gripman was not adopted.Yields information about Brunswick Car Shed and Sydney RoadBlack and white newsprint photograph from The Argus, 1 November 1922, page 9. tramcars, tramways, cable trams, dummy, grip car, windshield, gripman working conditions

Rose Series postcard P.957 titled "Fitzroy Street, St Kilda Victoria" showing two W2 class tramcars at the intersection of Fitzroy Street and The Esplanade St Kilda. Tram W2 class 407 (route 15) is bound for Moreland while W2 class 274 from Caulfield Junction (route 67) is bound for Ackland St. In the view is the Hong Kong cafe sign together with advertisements for Seppelt's and Penfolds wines. Note the tram overhead for the St Kilda Beach line via South Melbourne originally connected at this intersection. 402 is fitted with experimental "T" tail-light on the apron. Yields information about Fitzroy St, St Kilda late 1930s.Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear and remnants of blue card on the rear.trams, tramways, fitzroy st, st kilda, the esplanade, w2 class, tram 402, tram 274, route 67, route 15, rose series

Carbon skids, used to pick up the power from the overhead for trams, were introduced to Melbourne when the Bourke St lines were built - mid-1950s. They replaced trolley wheels on the top of the poles, and over time, were used system-wide except for the Footscray lines. The smaller of the two may have been experimental or obtained from another body. Demonstrates carbon skids used in Melbourne for power pick up from the overhead trolley wires,Brass casting fitted with a carbon insert - set of 2. The carbon inserts have not been used.Smaller of the two, has been stamped "482" and has a label "279" on the underside.mmtb, trolley wheels, carbon skids, power supply, tramcars