Significance

Yields information about the appearance of SEC single truck trams during 1938. Has a strong association with Wal Jack.

Physical description

Book - 200gsm card cover - two colours, 36 pages off white paper printed with text and 8 pages of black and white photos printed onto gloss paper, centre stapled titled "Historical Guide to Bendigo". Published by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria Bendigo Branch, 1968.



Contents: Derivation of the name of Bendigo, historical facts. mining guide, post offices, early Bendigo Hotels, Bendigo Tramways, Eaglehawk, the Lonely Grave. Has photos on the Battery Tram, Steam Tram and ESCo No. 2, Pall Mall, various mines, Golden Square and the Lonely Grave.



Bendigo Tram item written by H. Biggs.

Inscriptions & markings

On page 3 in black ink "Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society, Catalogue No. 119"