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Photograph - Black and White - ESCo trams at Grenville St, Rose Stereograph Co, 1913c

  • Photograph from a postcard - Black and White - ESCo trams at Grenville St

    Photograph from a postcard - Black and White - ESCo trams at Grenville St

  • Photograph from a postcard - Black and White - ESCo trams at Grenville St - close up of the two trams

    Photograph from a postcard - Black and White - ESCo trams at Grenville St - close up of the two trams

  • Photograph from a postcard - Black and White - ESCo trams at Grenville St
  • Photograph from a postcard - Black and White - ESCo trams at Grenville St - close up of the two trams

Historical information

One of the trams is a Sebastopol-type tram No 22. Has the large shelter in the background and another tram in the view. Taken c1913, following the introduction of the Sebastopol type tram.
From a Rose Series postcard - Rose Number 1710.
Note the Mechanics Institute advertising sign on their building advertising the institute rather than a company. The 8-hour monument at the end of the central median can be seen.
See item 9012 for a printed illustration of this photograph,

Significance

Yields information about the operation of ESCo trams in Sturt St and in particular the Sebastopol type.

Physical description

Black and white copy photograph of a postcard showing two ESCo trams at the Grenville St terminus, looking west along Sturt St.

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