http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au The Friends of Hawthorn Tram Depot is a voluntary non-profit body that operates the Melbourne Tram Museum @ Hawthorn Depot - the most authentic tram museum in Australia. en 2010, Friends of Hawthorn Tram Depot. All rights reserved. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:35:00 GMT webmaster@hawthorntramdepot.org.au (FOHTD) http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/summer.htm http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/summer.htm Geoff Brown is a life-long tramway enthusiast and new member of Friends of Hawthorn Tram Depot. Here he recounts his experience as a part-time conductor working on Melbourne's trams from 1969 to 1976, during the long summer vacations of his time as a university student. Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:35:00 GMT webmaster@hawthorntramdepot.org.au (FOHTD) http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/news/20100614.htm http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/news/20100614.htm To initiate changes to the Rules of the Association - required to address changes to the Associations Incorporation Act - a General Meeting will be held at 10am on 10 July 2010 on our open day. All current financial members are invited, and morning tea will be available from 9:30am. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:30:00 GMT webmaster@hawthorntramdepot.org.au (FOHTD) http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/birney.htm http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/birney.htm The Birney Safety Car, first appearing in Seattle in 1916, was an early example of building safety directly into a tramcar. Several thousand were built for service, mostly in North America, but two did find their way to Melbourne in 1924 - resulting in the production of a small number of derivatives by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board. Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:20:00 GMT webmaster@hawthorntramdepot.org.au (FOHTD) http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/pcc.htm http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/pcc.htm The PCC streetcar design of the 1930s was a revolution in urban street public transport, resulting in the construction of thousands of tramcars to the same basic design in North America and Europe. Why then did the Melbourne tramway system only have two trams that used the PCC technology, neither of them showing the classic appearance of the PCC streetcar? Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:50:00 GMT webmaster@hawthorntramdepot.org.au (FOHTD) http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/shop/index.htm http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/shop/index.htm We have revamped our website shop to cater for the increased range now available from our museum shop. Now you can browse through our range online, with images depicting almost every item on sale. Visit our new shop pages and purchase by mail order, or visit us on an open day - and note we have the recently released Footscray tramway DVD on sale. Sat, 1 Jan 2010 05:40:00 GMT webmaster@hawthorntramdepot.org.au (FOHTD) http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/members/bellcord/bc-008.pdf http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/members/bellcord/bc-008.pdf The December issue of Bellcord is now available for FOHTD members to download. Not a member? Why not join FOHTD? Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:15:00 GMT webmaster@hawthorntramdepot.org.au (FOHTD)