Historical information

Copy of a document from an original source, handwritten and partly typed. Details the 78 Rules that applied to the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company horse tram drivers and their operations. Gives rules for their personal behaviour, duties, watering of the horses, passing of other horse-drawn trams, walking horses around curves, operations, management of passengers, use and care of cash boxes, accidents, fares, tickets, and general work.

Significance

Yields information about the rules that Melbourne horse tram drivers operated by.

Physical description

Set of two blue foolscap handwritten or typed sheets consisting of six sheets each (Rules 1 to 78) titled Rules for Horse Car Drivers and special notice for drivers.