Physical description

121 page A4 sized bound document - Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of Australasian Tramway Museums, Adelaide Sept. 26-29 1986. Has a clear plastic cover, heavy white rear cover, bound with the Gestetner Velobind binder - black. Edited by Colin Seymour, produced by the Australian Electric Traction Museum, Adelaide.



Contents:

Conference Participants, Programme, COTMA - a brief history, AETM - the Host Museum



Papers:

1. Getting Mileage from a display - G. Spiers

2. Legal responsibilities to Members and the General Public - M. Mitchell

3. Opportunities for and within Membership -V. O'Neill

4. What Makes a Tramway Museum - W. Kingsley

5. What Brings Senior Citizens to Visit - A.E.Taylor

6. Adding Reality to a Social Studies Programme - M. Schneider

7. Why Promote a Museum - N. S. Smith

8. What have we at our Museums to bring in the People? - B. Smith.



Forums:

1. How would these ideas work for our Museum?

2. What our Museum has done

3. What you asked for ... Open Discussion.



Visits

Reports.



On Page 3 has a photo of Conference delegates assembled in front of tram F1 264 at the St. Kilda Museum.

Inscriptions & markings

'B.T.P.S." on front cover, top left hand corner in pencil