Photograph - Black & White Photograph/s - set of 2, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), 1950's

Physical description

Black and white print of bogie tram No. 22 and another single trucker at the City terminus, Sturt St, with the Town Hall in the background. A large number of passengers board and leaving the trams. Has a bus in the distance crossing Sturt St.. Tram has the destination of Sturt St. West. In the photograph are Anderson Paper Merchants, Terminus Cafe and Penfolds Wine shop. In the bottom right hand corner is an ESCo/SEC cable termination/switch box.



3217.1 - original photo ex SEC?



3217.2 - different crop - added 21/3/2021 - has more of the original image on the right side.





Inscriptions & markings

On rear of photograph is a white dot with "5" in red ink, and in pencil "Car 22, renumbered as 37 in 1951 in order to consolidate the bogies cars from No. 34 onwards. This was the first bogie car to run in Ballarat and ran from 1945. The car was withdrawn in 1955, following severe accident damage SECV"

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