Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s, Geoff Grant, 19/06/1955 12:00:00 AM

Physical description

Black & white photo out of rear cabin of M&MTB tram No. 988, running "bang road" or wrong line in Bourke St. on Sunday, 19 June 1955 while testing overhead. Good view of Bourke St. buildings looking towards GPO. Some motor cars in the street. Negative No. 315 on file. Scanned image of negative btm497i1 shows a wider image than the print.



Geoff Grant's notes on the envelope that contained the negative - says that this was the first tram to run on the Bourke St. route.



Negative scanned at hi res 21/5/2020.

Inscriptions & markings

On typed paper on rear "View out of the rear cabin of 988 as it came up Bourke St. on Sunday the 19 June 1955" and "Geoff Grant" stamp in btm rh corner.

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