Newspaper, The Courier Ballarat, "Last Tram", 22/09/1971

Physical description

Newspaper clipping from The Courier, Ballarat, Wed. 22/9/1971, pages 7, 8 and 49,50.
Pages 7 and 8 - see Reg. Item 1846, Pieces of Tram History - "Ballarat Tramways Sample Tickets".
Pages 49 and 50 - "Last Tram". Two photos of crews and identities involved in the running of the Last tram the previous Sunday. Photos feature: Cr N.F. Donald, Mayor of Sebastopol, handing the tram keys over to Cr. J. Chisholm , at the town boundary. Others featured in the first photo, Mr. L. J. Denmead, L. Walker, Mrs. Chisholm and Mrs Donald.
The Second photo feature: Eddie Lake, Alec Turnbull, Joe Smerdon and Herb Knight.
Under photos has a Railways of Australia, RoA, advertisement titled "The Age of superpower".
See Reg Item 3335 for an actual print of this photograph - but in poor condition.
For other photographs of the event see Reg Item 6423

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