Physical description

Book - spiral wire bound , clear plastic cover, green title sheet and card back, approx. 110 pages, black and white presentation giving examples of tram tickets along with notes on each system for Melbourne, Country Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand (11 systems) and Tourist tramways.



Has a table of contents, introduction, an overview of the operators, list of Urban Transport Milestones During the Tramway Era for NZ and a story "Mystery Solved by Tram Ticket by Robert Pine as told by Jack McLean about a murder in London that was solved by a tram ticket found in the person's clothes.



Rear page has purchase details of the book and CD, along with a contact address in Sydney.



See Reg Item 5579 for the CD.





Bob Merchant of the Sydney Tramway Museum advised 4/3/2021 that:



Richard Peck, as Curator of Philately, Printing and Postal Technology,

was responsible for the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences acquiring

major artefacts from the NSW Government Printing Office when it was

forcibly closed by the government in 1989. In retirement Richard has

researched the history of private bus routes before 1932 and government

bus routes 1932-2021. He maintains a large database of all types of NSW

transport tickets.