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Photograph - Black and White - decorated cable trailer - Peace - World War 1, 1919

  • Black and white photograph of a decorated cable tram set, celebrating the peace after World War 1, soon after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

    Photograph - Black and White - decorated cable trailer - Peace - World War 1

Historical information

The photograph shows the trailer or saloon car from a cable tram set at car house or depot. See Reg Item3692 for a photo of the car set or train. The National Library notes in its collection - Decorated dummy and car which, electrically illuminated, traversed the Melbourne cable tramways in celebration of peace, on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, the 14th and 15th July, 1919. Has a illustrated card published by the Tramway Board 1919.

Significance

Yields information about a decorated cable tram trailer and the interior of a car house.

Physical description

Photograph - Black and White - decorated cable trailer - Peace - World War 1 in a car house or depot

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