Physical description
Folder - heavy red covers with two screw sets containing a photocopy of a report by William Pollock, prepared after the closure of the cable tram system titled ""The Melbourne Cable Tramway System".
Image numbers listed:
Folder – htd4715i1
Inside of folder – htd4715i2.jpg
Report –Photocopy of a 14 foolscap sheets, paper titled “The Melbourne Cable Tramway System” by William Pollock, describing the system in detail, listing 26 appendices. Has notes on each Power Station, including a table of opening, closing, power produced and cables, fuel, permanent way (track), cables, underground gear, tunnels, flooding and the grip. Image – htd4714i3.pdf
Appendix
1 – Handwritten table “Cost the Melbourne Tramway System” – photocopied special size sheet folded. See image htd4715i4.jpg
2 – Drawing – Typical Power House layout - image htd4715i5.jpg
3 – Drawing – Head of Cable Driver – htd4715i6.jpg
4 – Drawing – Rope Drive – htd4715i7.jpg
5 – Photocopy of a Fuel and Water test sheet for the Esplanade Power House – two sheets – 14/5/1918 – htd4715i8.jpg and htd4715i9.jpg
6 – Section of Cable Tram track – htd4715i10.jpg
7 – Tar Burner used by MTOC 1893 – 1900 - htd4715i11.jpg
8 – Yoke Bracket for line drums – A1 Pulley – htd4715i12.jpg
9 – Tunnel Yoke – htd4715i13.jpg
10 – Elevating Wheel or Pulley with shield plate – htd4715i14.jpg
11 – Curve Pulleys, curve drum and rubbing bar – 2 sheets – htd4715i15.jpg and htd4715i16.jpg
12 – Curve or Conical drum – htd4715i17.jpg
13 – Cable Separating pulley or cone line drum – htd4715i18.jpg
14 – Yoke Pulley or General Pulley – htd4715i19.jpg
15 – Yoke Bracket for Drums – htd4715i20.jpg
16 – Automatic Switch Gear – htd4715i21.jpg
17 – Hand operated switch gear – htd4715i22.jpg
18 – Hand pickup – htd4715i23.jpg
19 & 20 – Photo of bunched strands and damaged cable – htd4715i24
21 – Diagram of Rope – Clarendon St Rope No. 41 – htd4715i25.jpg
22 – Strand Alarm – htd4715i26.jpg
23 – Rope History – two sheets – htd4715i27 and htd4715i28.jpg
24 – Rope Splice – htd4715i29.jpg
25 – Cable Grip – htd4715i30.jpg
26 – Crown Pulley – two sheets – htd4715i30 and htd4715i31
