Significance

Yields information about the trails of an alternative method of propulsion of tramcars - electric battery. Shows the vehicle while on trial in Melbourne. Shows the people involved in the trials.

Physical description

Black and White copy photograph of a State Library of South Australia SLSA B34583, of the Julien battery-electric tramcar on trials in Toorak Road, Melbourne; see page 27 of The Golden City and its Tramways and for the photo itself. Trails undertaken September 1888.



Collected by Alan Bradley from the State Library of South Australia early 1980's. For details of the Adelaide trials - see

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julien%27s_Patent_battery_tram,_Henley_Beach,_9_January_1889_(SLSA_B-5468).jpg (accessed 22/8/2020). And the Oct. 1977 issue of Trolley Wire, for the construction, testing and disappearance of the tram.



3791.1 - 2nd print obtained by William F Scott on light weight paper - 2 copies

Inscriptions & markings

2785.1 - on rear of both copies in ink "Trial run of battery electric car in South Yarra (Melbourne) on cable car tracks. 1888. The same car ran in Ballaarat shortly there after." In pencil "Photograph courtesy of the State Library of South Australia SLSA B 34583"