Significance

Yields information about the Official opening of the BTPS operation in Wendouree Parade in 1974 and has a strong association with those involved.

Physical description

Set of 20 Kodachrome of the Official Opening day of the BTPS Wendouree Parade tramway.
.1 - BTPS Depot and associated trackwork with two people sitting on the door step.
.2 - 40 and three single truckers lined up for the opening ceremony
.3 - ditto
.4 - Opening ceremony with speeches etc, the band (The Ballarat Memorial Soldiers Band)
.5 - ditto
.6 - ditto
.7 - ditto
.8 - ditto
.9 - Bill Jessup holding the opening banner just after being broken - Clyde Croft in the cabin of the tram.
.10 - close up of the front of 40
.11 - trams in Wendouree Parade]
.12 - ditto
.13 - 14 passing another tram at the loop
.14 - 40 ditto
.15 - Some enthusiasts hiding under the trees.
.16 - turning the pole
.17 - Gavin Young and Graham Jordan standing on front of 26
.18 - ditto
.19 - putting the pole on the overhead
.20 - Former driver? standing at the No. 2 end of 40.
Photos from the collection of Lilian Butler.