[Editor: This postcard (unused) incorporates a photograph of the official opening of Adelaide’s electric tram system on 9 March 1909.]
[Front of postcard]
The official opening of Adelaide’s electric tram system.
March 9th, 1909. The First Car driven by Mrs. Price.
[Description: A photograph of a column of electric trams in Adelaide, with crowds gathered for the official opening of Adelaide’s electric tram system on 9 March 1909.]
[Reverse of postcard]
Post Card.
This space for communication in the Commonwealth only. The address only here.
Foreign and Interstate 1d.
Turner Bros., Porter Street, Parkside.
Source:
Original document
Editor’s notes:
Dimensions (approximate): 129 mm. (width), 92 mm. (height).
For information regarding the opening of Adelaide’s electric tram system on 9 March 1909, see:
1) “Electric tramways: The system inaugurated: A brilliant ceremony”, The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA), 9 March 1909, p. 1 (4 o’clock edition)
2) “Opening ceremony of the electric trams”, The Critic, (Adelaide, SA), 10 March 1909, p. 9
3) “Electric tramways: The system inaugurated”, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 10 March 1909, p. 7
4) “Electric tram service started”, The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA), 10 March 1909, p. 3 (4 o’clock edition)
5) “Electric trams: Great public enthusiasm: Electric traction inaugurated”, The Register (Adelaide, SA), 10 March 1909, p. 7
6) “Message from the Premier: Characteristic letter”, The Register (Adelaide, SA), 10 March 1909, p. 7
7) “A promising invention: New series of postcards”, The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA), 11 March 1909, p. 1 (4 o’clock edition)
8) “Electric trams for Adelaide”, The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.), 13 March 1909, p. 662
See also: “Trams in Adelaide”, Wikipedia
Bros. = an abbreviation of “Brothers”
Commonwealth = the Commonwealth of Australia; the Australian nation, federated on 1 January 1901
d. = a reference to a penny, or pennies (pence); the “d” was an abbreviation of “denarii”, e.g. as used in “L.S.D.” or “£sd” (pounds, shillings, and pence), which refers to coins used by the Romans, as per the Latin words “librae” (or “libra”), “solidi” (singular “solidus”), and “denarii” (singular “denarius”)
Mrs. Price = Anne Elizabeth Price (née Lloyd) (1905-1950), wife of Thomas Price (Labor Premier of South Australia, 1905-1909); she was born in England in 1905, came to Australia in 1883, and died in Hawthorn (Adelaide, SA) in 1950
See: 1) “Widow of first Labor Premier dies”, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 5 September 1950, p. 2
2) “Deaths”, The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), 5 September 1950, p. 20, column 3
3) Steven Weeks, “Thomas (Tom) Price (1852–1909)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography
2) “Thomas Price (South Australian politician)”, Wikipedia
Turner Bros. = a company which was a wholesale distributor of postcards; located at Porter Street, Parkside (Adelaide, South Australia)
See: “Turner Brothers, of Porter-st., Parkside, SA”, IAC list (on Trove)
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