Physical description

Exercise book with personal notes on tramcar maintenance, operations, recovery etc of C. Willoughby in a Spicers Tudor Exercise book - 64 pages with arithmetical tables on the rear cover.



Topics covered:

Rail Grinder - details on how to operate and maintain it

North Fitzroy

Dick Kerr, Clyde, K35 and RC2 Controller sequences and diagrams - notes on testing and faults

Buzzer wiring diagrams

Maintenance of trams interiors and rooves - items to be checked for

Line Breakers

Lighting Circuits

Compressors

Trolley poles etc

Air operated doors

Re-railing of Maximum Traction trams - 22E

ditto for equal wheel bogies

ditto when split points

Use of false trucks

Derailments on the Royal Park line

Electrical equipment faults

Adjusting Trolley Poles heights and tension

Notes on truck types and braking

Brake diagram summary, giving specifications and a list of relevant drawings

Forms for the insulation testing of the Rail Grinders

Checking motor leads and electrical equipment - written on the rear of a St Patrick's Day Procession notice for 1962.





Advice from Neil Elfick, 23/6/2018 knew him when the Running Shed Foreman at Kew Depot.