Sign - Warning Sign - Entering or leaving, Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Entering or leaving this tram on the wrong side is prohibited", c1920

Significance

Demonstrates how the SEC used enamel signs to convey instructions to passengers or to confirm the advice of the conductor and how enamel signs were made.

Physical description

Enamel sign, black capital letters and lines on an off-white background, titled "Entering or leaving this tram on the wrong side is prohibited". Marks on rear from the enamelling process. The front of the sign has been covered with varnish.



See also Reg Item 7118 for a later sign.



Of the type that could have been fitted by the MMTB to its trams.



2nd copy added 25/11/2019

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