Photograph - Set of 2 Black & White Photograph/s, Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board (MMTB), Cable set No. 1, c1940

Historical information

Photograph show the MMTB / MTO Co cable tram set No. 1 inbound in Nicholson St Fitzroy with the Carlton Gardens in the background - Destination of Spencer St. Has a small number of passengers and the conductor standing on the trailer. Two copies held. The livery is non-standard for the time.
Official MMTB Photograph - used in a Annual Report.
.1 - Photo taken in the same location but looking from the rear of the cable tram set. Has the Exhibition buildings in the background. Two copies held.
See Reg Item 897 for a newspaper clipping of the 2nd photo.

Significance

Yields information about cable tram set No. 1, which was presented to the Science Museum when the cable tram system closed.

Physical description

Photographs, Black and White, set of two.

Inscriptions & markings

In ink on the rear:
KSK print numbers SA909
On rear of .1 "MMTB" and "H202"

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