Physical description

Comb bound (white plastic) specification or tender document, approx. 180 pages, with glossy card orange covers, titled "Tender Schedule for Electric Trams" and "Contract 3000". Compiled and published by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, closing Monday 10 May 1977. Details the conditions of tender, conditions of contract, notes, specification, gives background information about Melbourne, dimensions, performance, drivers and conductors, trucks, wheels, brakes, electrical equipment, control panels and drawings. The drawings give a map of the system, typical city route, Glenferrie Road route (grade diagram), concrete track construction, min. radius curves, loading gauge, all-electric tram and mounting details for the trolley base, schedule of prices, tender form, form of contract, schedule of information to be provided by the tenderer. Includes an Alphabetical Index.



Includes a drawing for a single ended version of the tramcar. Became the Z3 class.



Only the table of contents and the drawings scanned.



See Reg Items 1583 and 2266 for other similar documents.



See Reg Items 337 and 338 for a report on the operation of single ended tramcars



2 copies held.

Inscriptions & markings

Has in ink written on front cover "J Armstrong" with a stamp blacked out and other copy of the same signature.