Album - Photo Album, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), "Types of Passenger Shelters MMTB", mid 1930's?

Physical description

Photo Album - brown cards covers, containing 12 heavy card sheets bound with a brown cotton cord titled "Types of Passenger Shelters MMTB". Ten sheets have two photos of shelters except for the last one giving location and cost.



Sheet 1 - Two shelters at Wattle Park

2 - Batman Ave and Peel St; Flemington Road with cable trams in the background.

3 - Victoria Parade and Smith St; Ballarat Road and Gordon St Footscray

4 - Dandenong Road and Hawthorn Road Caulfield; photos of the standard shelter, 6 Number, for St Kilda Road, Alfred Hospital and Gisborne St East Melbourne.

5 - East Kew terminus; Camberwell Road and Smith Road

6 - Oakover Road and Gilbert Rd Preston, Flemington Road at Abbotsford St North Melbourne

7 - Swanston St and Grattan St Women's Hospital with a Bundy clock and street fire alarm in the view; Victoria Parade Fitzroy opposite Eye and Ear hospital with a W class tramcar and the Eastern Hill fire station in the background.

8 - Two photos of the shelter at the corner of William St and Collins St Melbourne.

9 - Toorak Terminus; Rennie and Nicholson St Coburg

10 - Market St terminus City.



Images taken from the website production 16-1-2019 - see - http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/shelteralbum.htm



On inside back cover is a Kodak label "Scroll" with "3" entered in ink.



Date unknown, thought to be mid 1930's - see Reg item 3361 of the construction of William St shelter post 1933.

Inscriptions & markings

in black ink "Manager" in top right hand corner.

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