Physical description

Specification or Tender Document - titled "Design, Manufacture and delivery of 100 only all-electric trams", and "Background Information and Preliminary Specification", dated June 1965.



Bound into a brown foolscap card cover.



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.



Comprises:

1 - Conditions of Tendering - 1 page

2 - Conditions of Contract - 4 pages

3 - Contents - 3 pages

4 - Notes for prospective tenderers - dated June 1965

5 - General nature of contract - 21 pages

6 - Appendix A - climate data - two sheets

7 - List of 14 appended drawings

8 - O.6887A - cross section of trolley wire

9 - P.13855 - Glenferrie Road, Longitudinal Section

10 - P.13856 - Wattle Park Route

11 - P.13857 - East Preston Route

12 - P13858 - Concrete track construction

13 - P13859 - Open track construction

14 - P.13860 - Paved ballast track construction

15 - P.13887 - Tram Route - locations of substations and section switches

16 - P.13888 - Minimum radius service curves to give minimum clearance between tramcars

17 - P.13889 - Grooved Rail - 102 pounds per yard and tire profile

18 - R10-301 - Loading gauge, proposed electric tramcars

19 - R9706K - Rolling stock data, tramcars

20 - R10306 - Collins Points Shifter - Wiring diagram.

21 - Schedule of data to be supplied by the tenderer

22 - notes on Automatic Points shifters - 2 sheets

23 - Tender prices and delivery periods - 2 sheets.



See Reg Item 2266 for the 1972 version and 1583 for the August 1966 version.



See Reg Item 4049 for associated newspaper cuttings.



See file htd4667i1.pdf for scans of the drawings.

Inscriptions & markings

In ink in top right hand corner - "Lees"