Significance

Yields information about the formation of the BTPS in 1971 and some of the people who attended meetings etc. and about the closure of the Ballarat tramway system.

Physical description

Two Newspaper clippings pasted onto a single sheet of paper with two Punch holes on the left hand side.



First clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, Monday, 31/5/1971, titled "Society formed to Preserve Trams" (newspaper date, with page 2), about the formation the previous day of the BTPS at a meeting of the Lake Wendouree Tramway Museum Committee with a membership of 55 people to retain a tourist tram system for Ballarat. Gives names of the elected office bearer, details of proposals, some costs, alternative sites and that a tram was chartered before the meeting.



1071.1 - photocopy of the article added 24/1/2008. Has the names of those elected highlighted in pink ink.



Second cutting dated "14/7/71" from the Courier titled "Three stage plan for phasing out of trams" of the three stage plan for phasing out of the trams in Ballarat. The plan was announced by Transport Regulation Board the previous day. August 23 - Drummond St North and Victoria St., Sept. 6 for Gardens via Sturt St and Mt Pleasant and Sept 20 for Lydiard St. North and Sebastopol.



1071.2 - as above, original clipping, donated by Dave Macartney, added 10/9/2013

Inscriptions & markings

In red ink in upper right hand corner of second cutting, "14/7/71"

Has numerous pencil and pen marking from previous use, possibly at Ronaldson and Tippet where the donor worked.