Significance

Yields a viewpoint of the time of the editor of the Geelong Advertiser in relation to the continuing loss of the Geelong trams. Mentions the Bell report.

Physical description

Newspaper clipped from The Geelong Advertiser, 11-12-1950, Editorial, titled "Running at a loss". Writes about the losses that each of the three provincial systems incur, SEC control, notes the Mr. Bell Jnr report on the three systems and the recommended abolition, and the charge they make on the SEC. Cutting has been glued to a sheet of foolscap paper, with words "Engineer and Manager" typed in top right hand corner.

Inscriptions & markings

The words "Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society 404" in black ink in the top right hand corner and initials "H.N.H" in blue ink in the bottom right hand corner.