As usual, these terrific Geelong pics have more of interest than immediately meets the eye.

The car in the bottom left of the picture is none other than the rare and unusually advanced for its day Jowett Javelin, one of the many could-have-been-awesome products of the postwar British car and motorcycle industry. The Javelin’s motorcycle equivalent is probably the BSA made Sunbeam S7/8, intended to be a “BMW beating luxury tourer”, but wasn’t up to it :

Great Motoring Disasters: Jowett Javelin | Motoring Research https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/features/great-motoring-disasters-jowett-javelin/

About Sunbeam Motorcycles https://www.stewartengineering.co.uk/sunbeams.asp

Tony G

> On 13 Oct 2017, at 12:02 pm, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Geelong's 'Tramway Centre' was at the intersection of Moorabool and

> Ryrie St where there was a double track H crossing.

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> Today's pic looks south across that intersection - towards Belmont. The

> double track ends immediately after the intersection.

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> Also shown is one of the two traffic lights unique to Geelong - this set

> with a sign advising a Melbourne style 'hook turn'.

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> Mal Rowe - no stranger to hook turns

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