Significance

Yields information about the instructions that Ballarat Tramways traffic inspectors received in carrying out their duties and how to monitor the work of the tram crews etc.

Physical description

Twenty duplicated quarto pages or folios titled "General Instructions - Tramway Traffic Inspectors", bound within a manila folder. Dated March 1951 and has Manual No. 1 on each sheet. On bottom edge has "GOS6-55", indicating that it may have been printed in June 1955. Two steel clips used to bind sheets into folder.



Details instructions for tramway traffic inspectors including behaviour, approach, appearance, general duties, knowledge of instructions and bylaws, supervision of employees, ticket checking, sickness, intoxicants, offences, traffic supervision, derailments, failures, safety, accidents, investigations, injuries and reports.

Inscriptions & markings

Has "State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Electricity Supply Department" stamped on front cover.