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The Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board or MMTB (officially M&MTB) was an authority that was responsible for the tram network in Melbourne, Australia beteeen 1919 and 1983. It was formed by the merger of the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust & the Hawthorn Tramways Trust, among many others. A CLRV Streetcar in the City of Toronto. ... Melbournes Yarra River is popular area for walking, jogging, cycling and relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced either or [1]) is the second most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Prahran (pronounced prah-RAN) is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Malvern is the name of a town in Worcestershire, England. ... Hawthorn is a common name for plants in two related genera in the subfamily Maloideae of the family Rosaceae: Crataegus Rhaphiolepis The term Hawthorn also refers to the following places: Hawthorn, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. ...
Its main headquarters was located at The Preston workshops. Its other depots were located at Glen Huntly, Camberwell, Essendon, South Melbourne and Hawthorn. It oversaw the operation of all tramways operations in Melbourne and suburbs until it was integrated into the Melbourne Metropolitan Transport Authority in 1983. Glen Huntly is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Camberwell (postcode: 3124) is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the local municipality of the City of Boroondara. ... Essendon is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Coat of arms of South Melbourne South Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Hawthorns Glenferrie Road shopping strip, facing north towards Kew. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The tram was repainted in the MMTB livery of 1945 during 1975.
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The tram was sold to the SECV Geelong tramways in 1947, where it became #32 and in 1956 with the closure of that tramway, the tram was transferred to Bendigo where it became #3.
Soon a Melbourne cable tramway system was running from the city to nearby suburbs, but as the city grew the technical limits of the cable tram system became apparent, and electric trams were developed for lines to more distant suburbs.
The MMTB inherited a system with many different types of trams, and solved this problem by introducing the famous W-class tram, which ran for 70 years and a few can still be seen on Melbourne's tram lines.
The MMTB was so profitable that it had to invent ways to spend money, notably by constructing the enormous Wattle Park and the Vimy House private hospital for tramways staff.
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