Digital colour photograph of the former Cosmopolitan Hotel 211 Princes Street.business and traders - hotels, built environment - commercial, built environment - domestic, cosmopolitan hotel, princes street

Digital colour photograph of the former Cosmopolitan Hotel 211 Princes Street.business and traders - hotels, built environment - commercial, built environment - domestic, cosmopolitan hotel, princes street

Digital colour photograph of the door of the former Cosmopolitan Hotel 211 Princes Street.business and traders - hotels, built environment - commercial, built environment - domestic, cosmopolitan hotel, princes street

Photo of a privately operated bus in Swanston St. Melbourne at the intersection of Bourke St., with Foys (Foy and Gibson) department store in the background. Bourke St. trams yet to be built. Photo taken 10-4-1950. Also has the Cosmopolitan Hotel in the background. From information provided by the Bus and Coach Society of Victoria: "The bus outside Foys belongs to Lew Page who was one of the multiple operators on Route 1 in 1950 ( he also had one bus on Route 2) which was four years before they amalgamated to form Melbourne - Brighton Bus Lines. The bus is a Reo with a Giles body. Giles Motor Body Works was based in New Street Brighton and built bodies for commercial vehicles but not a lot of buses. Their half a dozen post-war buses mainly went to operators in Routes 1 and 2. Being on Route 1, the bus would have been red and cream." Yields information about private bus lines in Melbourne and the Foy & Gibson building.Black and white print and hi res scan of a donated negative. tramways, trams, melbourne, swanston st, foy & gibson, bourke st., lew page, giles, melbourne brighton bus

Set of 11 photos by Hugh Ballment, unless noted, of MMTB, and MTA: HBM185 - MMTB Tram 377, c1954, Swanston St, At Bourke St, with Royal visit decorations along the street. In the background is Foy Gibson, ANZ Bank, Cosmopolitan Hotel and a policeman directing traffic. HBM186 - MMTB Tram 677, late 1950s, Elsternwick, Has the Tram stop sign about tram services, adverts for Dandy Ham and BP Energy fuel and a Cartage Contractor's offices in the background. HBM187 - MMTB Tram 518, cMay 1983, Seattle, Tourist Tram HBM188 - MTA Tram 2, 1987, Bourke St, Spencer St junction construction. Has the MTOCo offices and Spencer St station in the background. HBM189 - MTA Tram 244, cNov1997, Flinders St, At Spencer St, with a ComEng Train on the viaduct. HBM190 - MMTB Trams 722, 917, c1986, Swanston St, Art Tram David Larwill - at Flinders St with Young and Jackson in the background with adverts for Peter Stuyvesant, four X, Classic Restaurant and a large advert for Coca Cola. HBM191 - MTA Tram 24, Aug 1988, Bourke St, Cable track removal at Spencer St HBM192 - MMTB Tram 857, 24/05/1954, St Kilda Rd, At Sturt St corner, with the Trocadero building in the background HBM193 - MMTB Tram 651, cMay1968, St Kilda junction, Queensway construction, with a passenger at the tram stop. HBM194 - MMTB, Z class tram no. 29, cMay 1976, Bourke St, shows the Palladium Entertainment Centre in the background advertising "Barry Lyndon". Photo taken from the Southern Cross Hotel. HBM195 - MMTB, T class No. 180, 9/09/1967, Royal Parade, TMSV Tour - tours data base gives the date of 10/9/1967, confirmed by TMSV tours listing. Yields information about Melbourne tram operations, with 1950s to 1980s photos of Melbourne tramways.Kodachrome cardboard and plastic mounts, with notes - set of 11new tramway, bourke st, spencer st, swanston st, elizabeth st, flinders st, tram 377, tram 677, elsternwick, seattle, tram 518, tram 244, tram 722, tram 24, tram 857, st kilda road, tram 917, z class, x2 class, t class, royal parade, tram 180