Significance
Yields information about the history of Bendigo's trams, tramways and the trammies and their stories and a special tram prior to closure. Has a strong association with the businesses in Bendigo.
Physical description
Photocopies of Bendigo Advertiser newspaper.
277.1 - "Farewell Crawl" - report with photo of a group from the Court House Hotel who did a pub crawl by tram on Sat. April 8, 1972 - photo of group on board with tram No. 26.
277.2 - photocopy of the Bendigo Advertisers feature of 8 pages, called "Bendigo says Good-Bye to the trams". Features history of the Bendigo trams, the services, personal stories, photos and advertisements from local commerce - published Thursday April 13, 1972. Tram services closed the following Sunday.
For original of the feature see item Reg. No. 1038.
Pdf image of photocopies added 22/10/2013