Wellington City Tramways Company Ltd

Date: 1906 - 1930

By: Richardson, Stuart, -1914; Wellington (N.Z.). Municipal Electricity Department

Reference: Plans-90-1513/1530

Description: Includes plans, sections and elevations of the power house; and plans, sections and elevations of the boiler house, with frontages on Victoria Street and Wakefield Street. Quantity: 18 plan(s). Physical Description: Diazo prints and ink drawings, sizes varying up to 700 x 1300 mm. Provenance: Donated by M.E.D., 40 Cuba Street Wellington, in 1990.

Date: Circa 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1895-F

Description: Panoramic view of Post Office Square, Wellington. The Chief Post Office with clock tower is in the centre. In front is a small one-storeyed brick building with tiled roof on which the booking office for Wellington Tramways 'Sight Seeing Bureau' advertises bus tours. There is a bus parked outside with the logo 'Seeing Wellington Bus Tours'. The New Zealand Government Life Insurance building is on the right with a tram shelter over the road on the harbour side. The Union Steam Ship Company building is on the far right, and the Huddart Parker building to the left of Post Office Square. People, cars, trucks in the image. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Date of 1928 taken from other images in Moore's own numerical sequence. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Post Office Square. Wellington. No. 341; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Post Office Square Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 132.2 cm

Date: 1910

From: [Ephemera including tickets and timetables for the Wellington tram service. 1900-1929]

By: Wellington City Tramways Company Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TRAM-Wellington-1910-01

Description: Timetable booklet for all Wellington City routes. The front cover shows a photograph of a tram passing the front of the General Post Office. The centre spread gives the route signals (1-3 dots in red, green or blue, or concentric lines) for each route. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, 122 x 65 mm.

Date: 1987-1996

From: Shephard, Wayne, active 1990-2001: Papers relating to Wellington buildings

Reference: 2007-116-144

Description: File comprises Archive of Wellington Architecture research forms. Some forms include newspaper cuttings. Selected names indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1903 - 1906

By: Wellington (N.Z.). Municipal Electricity Department

Reference: Plans-90-1510/1512

Description: Includes detail of Victoria [Wakefield?] Street elevation an engine room floor plan, and a floor plan of the extension. One plan is dated 1904, one is signed by W Smith October 1906; another is signed by William Ryle Wright. Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on linen-backed paper, sizes varying up to 650 x 1000 mm. Provenance: Donated by MED, 40 Cuba Street Wellington, in 1990.

Date: [1923-1944]

From: O'Shea, Alexander Paterson, 1902-1990 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7728-12

Description: Inward and outward correspondence, employment references, suggestions for economy in the Wellington City Council's operation of libraries, notes and other papers relating to personal and business matters; identified correspondents entered under Name below. Also includes references from C M [?], from the Office of the Clerk, Parliament and Frank [?] Bushell, of the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Company. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [August 1943]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Boyer, Charles Percy Samuel, 1902-1973

Reference: PAColl-0783-2-1074

Description: Women working for Wellington Tramways, photographed in 1943 by Charles Percy Boyer. Shows them working on the tracks. Dated from information in 'The Home Front' by Nancy Taylor. (Historical Publications Branch, 1986. p 1085) Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.2 x 21.6 cm

Date: 1950-1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/165/09-G

Description: Line of Wellington Tramways buses on Waterloo Quay ready to go to Athletic Park for the New Zealand-British Isles test match. Photograph taken 30 June 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: [ca 1870s]

Reference: 1/2-051900-F

Description: Trams, and men, outside the Wellington City Tramways depot on the corner of Adelaide Road and King Street, Newtown, Wellington, circa 1870s. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1920s

From: Wellington City Council :Negatives of Wellington taken for the Wellington City Council, chiefly by Frank Giles Barker

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: 1/1-024160-G

Description: View of a Wellington Tramways bus in front of the Town Hall in Wellington. There are two destinations on the front of the bus. One is Lyall Bay, the other is Government Buildings. There is a coat of arms on the side of the bus, and the bus is empty. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1880s

Reference: 1/2-008129-F

Description: A steam tram, with passengers aboard, in front of Government buildings, Lambton Quay, Wellington. The tram has "Wellington Tramway Company Limited" written on the side. Two figures stand alongside. Taken circa 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1904

From: [Ephemera including tickets and timetables for the Wellington tram service. 1900-1929]

By: Wellington City Tramways Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TRAM-Wellington-1904-01

Description: One shilling ticket with numerous clips, and rubber stamped M8145. Wording states: "This ticket must be shown on demand; issued subject to Tramway bylaws". Inscriptions: Verso - [Handwritten in ink]: Last horse car ticket purchased by us, 4/7/04 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, red on cream clipped ticket, 40 x 78 mm, with perforation at the left

Date: 1931 - 1932

Reference: Eph-D-TOURISM-Wellington-1931-01

Description: Poster advertising a bus tour of the eastern suburbs of Wellington shows a simplified illustration of the Massey memorial. Date estimated at 1931 because of the mention of the new tunnel. The Massey memorial was completed 1930, and the Mt Victoria Tunnel opened in 1931. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - "C" logo inside diamond Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 760 x 505 mm, mounted on linen 820 x 570 mm.

Date: 1924

From: [Ephemera including tickets and timetables for the Wellington tram service. 1900-1929]

By: Wellington City Tramways Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TRAM-Wellington-1924-01

Description: Three shilling ticket with numerous clips, and an ink signature. Wording states: "This ticket will not be accepted if torn or defaced, and must be shown on demand. Issued subject to Tramway By-laws and Regulations". A trackless tram was introduced from Kaiwarra to Thorndon in September 1924. The fact that this is called a "transfer ride" may mean that one transferred from the trackless car to a tram on a track to complete the journey from Thorndon to Cuba Street. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Other Titles - Three shilling Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, brown on cream clipped ticket, 52 x 120 mm.