b'99582AN OFFICIAL SAMPLE BOOK OF MELBOURNEOMNIBUS & TRAMWAYS TICKETS 1869 - 1915A leather-bound hardcover book, 26.5 x 20.5cm, red panel with gilt title SAMPLE TICKETS to spine, containing an astonishing range of tickets affixed to the pages and accompanied by extensive manuscript information regarding the numbers issued, dates issued, returned, withdrawn or unused quantities, etc. The collection begins with a small quantity of MELBOURNE OMNIBUS COMPANY tickets in use between 1869, when it was established and 1878; MELBOURNE TRAMWAYS & OMNIBUS COMPANY tickets from 1878. The collection includes many special purpose tickets (including the American Fleet Visit), employees tickets, parliamentary tickets, special event tickets and designated route tickets. At the end of the volume are several pages of tickets issued in other States and/or by other companies. Remarkable and almost certainly unique. (many 100s).$2,5005,000583MELBOURNE TRAMWAYS and OMNIBUS COMPANYLIMITED - TRANSFER TICKETS 1887 - 1911 584A companion volume to the previous lot.A large format ledger (33 x 20.5cm) with printed introductory pages followed by 100s of different transfer tickets and manuscript annotated pages providing information about the dates of issue, relevant line, advertising on the coupons, etc. The final pages show examples of other types of tickets, including FREE TRAM PASSES, special event passes (such as for transport to real estate auctions), M.O.Co. tickets from Melbourne to the Race Course, etc. A goldmine of historical details and almost certainly UNIQUE. (many 100s).$1,0002,000584The Railway Guide of New South Wales. Second Edition[Sydney; Thomas Richards, Government Printer] 18844to; 146pp; 6 b/w photographic plates, numerous illustrations; appendix, map.Original black leather binding with gold embossed titles to front cover.Inscription on flyleaf to Alex. McKinley Esq. with kind regards from C.S.Wilkinson. McKinley was, at the time, publisher of Melbourne Punch; Wilkinson was one of the contributors to the Railway Guide.$250350585FLINDERS STREET Station Masters clock by Gent & Co. Ltd. Leicester, England,stamped 1 VIC RAILWAYS, early 20th century,fusee movement (missing pendulum), this is the original number one master clock from Flinders Street Station that controller the time on all the slave clocks on the train platforms and was installed when the New station (current station) was completed in the early 1900s.78cm high$14,00016,000586 ANZAC/ RAILWAYS: General Sir Alexander Godley [Commandant of the New Zealand Military Forces & Commander of the Australian & NZ Division at Gallipoli]: Group of 3 First Class Railway Passes from his 1934 trip to Australia - one by Government Railways of Australia for Melbourne to Canberra & Sydney & return; plus two NSW Dept of Railways. G/VG condition.$300400 585'