Historical information

Photograph shows a female journalist with notebook in hand being shown the controls by a uniformed tramway employee at a depot yard, most likely Hawthorn depot. Photo undated and no details of the paper and it is post trove scanning at the time of cataloguing. The cutting notes that it appears much simpler than driving a car. Note the table card in the employee's pocket. The journalist is probably from the women's pages of one of the metropolitan newspapers. Her coat would have been very expensive and definitely extremely fashionable - which is why it is thought she was from the women's pages of one of the major papers. The coat appears to be real ocelot fur dating it to about 1963.
Cars in the yard are:
FX Holden 1948-53 or FJ Holden 1953-56
Austin 8 Tourer 1947-49 (very rare)
Ford Prefect 1950
Chevrolet 1949-50

Significance

Demonstrates learning to drive a tram though women drivers were not permitted at the time.

Physical description

Black and white photograph with an undated press cutting on the rear.