Physical description

Report - 114 pages, photocopied from an original, black comb bound with front clear plastic cover and rear mania cover titled "Melbourne Cable Tramways - General Report on their Construction Operation and Maintenance", prepared by I. Macmeikan - Assistant Superintendent Cable workshops 1920 - 1930 and Manager Preston Workshops 1951 - 1956.



Has details of the construction of the system, car depots, car workings and maintenance, power houses or winding houses or engine houses, route colours, parts for the trams, grip mechanisms and its operations including the actual calculations for their operation.



Published by the MMTB.