Document - Ballarat Tramways - Training notes - Preliminary Draft, State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV), Sept. 1947

Historical information

Set of draft notes or points for the training of motormen. Covers tramcar electrical equipment, defects, cutting out motors, tramcar braking, failure of brakes, emergency braking, automatic braking (dead man controls), electric signals, general instructions running in trams, tram stops, preparing trams, derailments and track cleaner tram. Dated 29/9/1947, has initials "AVM:VM"

Significance

Yields information and demonstrates a set of draft training notes for tram motormen in Ballarat.

Physical description

Twenty foolscap typed sheets and one handwritten quarto sheet.

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