Historical information

Part 1 - Ballarat Horse Trams - notes that much of the details was supplied by the late Inspector James.
Part 2 - Electric Trams - gives dates for the withdrawal of the ESCo cars, routes, SEC and extensions, including the Forest City signals.
Notes assistance of Mr Hornabrook, Farr, Linaker, Hodgson and Lyons.
See also Reg Item 8005 for another copy and a set of A3 size laminated photocopies.

Significance

Yields information about the history of the Ballarat tramways as researched and known in 1953 by Wal Jack.

Physical description

Photocopy - 11 pages of a typed article or research report on foolscap paper titled "History of Ballarat Tramways - 1887 - 1953", written by Wal Jack.
Second copy - Gestetner printed - 10 pages only, from a donation of Ruth Nelson - rescanned with word recognition pdf. Last page scanned and added to this file, but may not be word recognisable.

Inscriptions & markings

In pencil on the last sheet "The original of the information was loaned to me to have this copy made by Mr. W. L. Edwards of Beverin St Sebastopol 3356 - copy made 23/5/1972.
Second - copy some dates on front sheet circled and paragraphs highlighted on other pages.