Demonstrates a document prepared by the SEC promoting the closure of the Geelong system. Yields historical notes and statistics on the Geelong Tramway system - very detailed information about tram use, services, staffing and routes and the costs of continuing the system in use.Sixteen page carbon copy foolscap document titled "Electricity Supply Department - Geelong Tramways Review 1953". Headings are: Early History, Creation of the SEC, Acquirement by the SEC, Agreements with Municipalities, SEC Act, Municipal By-Laws (Buses), proposed extension of the tramway routes, physical characteristics and changes at Geelong, Outlook of SEC as to tramways, Attempts to define transport future, review by the Geelong Tramway Operation by the SEC, tramcars, fares, staff and employees, trams used in normal traffic, daily mileage, average speed of services, service summary, passenger density, present outlook, prospective cost to be faced if existing system is continued, Possible improvements to the present system, extensions to the present tramway system, conclusions. Probably prepared as one of the reports to be considered by Government in its decision to close the Geelong system in 1956. Parts of text have been used in Reg Item 3478 - Geelong history and statistics. Very good reference document.'BTPS 403" in top right hand corner.trams, tramways, geelong, sec, mesco, history

13-1190; ill. facs. photographs; maps; plates;geelong (vic.) -- history. | geelong region (vic.) -- history.

B&w photographslocal history, geelong history

39 p. : ill., 1 map ; 21 cm.geelong-history

6-105P.; ports.; 22 cm.geelong-history

Digital images of a newspaper clipping from the Geelong Advertiser, 26/11/2018 titled "Picture the Past" and "When Trams ruled the Road", giving a short history of trams in Geelong, written by Peter Begg. Features photos of trams 23, 18 and an internal seat photograph. Notes that some of the trams remain in service in Ballarat. Actual copy that had been on display in the Mess Room added 26-2-2019.geelong, history, btm

Report by Hector H Bell Junior of the MMTB early 1949, titled "Street passenger transport system of Geelong Urban Area". Looks at the history of public transport in Geelong, tramway data, financial analysis, the Geelong bus system, buses servicing the North Shore industries - principally the Ford Works, the condition of the bus fleet, taxi and private car hire services, functions of a street transport authority, town planning, populations and traffic surveys, relative values of passenger vehicles, trolley buses, industry and recommendations. Said the tramway system was obsolete, should be a rail service between North and South Geelong, set up a street transport body, replan the Geelong railway station, additional roads to service the North Shore area. Refers to attachments. Has a list of people involved in the preparation of the report. See item 112 for the AETA response of April 1949 to this report.Yields information about the Geelong tram and bus services in 1948/49 and how it could be developed or reformed. Has a close association with Hector Bell Junior, the son of the then MMTB Chairman.Document - 18 foolscap sheets photocopied and stapled in three places along the side.tramways, secv, geelong, statistics, history, passenger services, reports, aeta