Physical description
Timetable - 36 pages, printed on off-white paper, cover printed on pink paper, centre stapled titled "Victorian Tramways Guide" for October 1917. Details the timetables for the Tramway Board, Northcote Council, PMTT, NMETL, HTT, MBCTT and the VR Brighton line. Gives details of fares, routes, signs, first and last cars.
Middle page - has a map and details of a Round trip and shows other lines and change points.
Foldout map included on the inside rear cover, showing tramways, railways and rivers.
Has many advertisements for the re-election of Sir Frank Madden (he was not re-elected - see http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/details/569-madden-frank - accessed 30-12-2016). Polling day 15/11/1917.
Has adverts for:
Commercial Union
Steel Castings Proprietary Limited
Myer's
Country of Bourke Permanent Building and Investment Society
Prohibition - Canada, USA
Royal Insurance Company
Australian Ladies Commercial College
Incley
Frederick Collis
Tramways Advertising Co.
Stott's Business College
Chambers and Seymour
W. M Richards
Huttons Ham
Sterling Preparations
Subjects
- trams,
- tramways,
- timetables,
- melbourne,
- nmetl,
- vr,
- cable trams,
- htt,
- pmtt,
- map,
- advertising