Adelaide's Public Transport - The First 180 Years

Tom (Thomas) Wilson was born in Adelaide in 1947. He attended St Joseph’s School, Kingswood, and Blackfriars Priory School at Prospect. He has a Bachelor of Town & Regional Planning (Melbourne), an Assoc. Diploma Town Planning, and Grad. Dip. Business Admin (South Australian Institute of Technology). He is a Retired Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport, and retired member of the Planning Institute of Australia. Tom lives in Adelaide and is married to Chris. Together they have three children and two grandchildren.

Dr John Radcliffe, AM, was born in 1938 and grew up in Fullarton, South Australia. He attended Highgate Public School and St Peters College, Hackney. He completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree with Honours and a PhD at Oregon State University. From 1967 to 1982, John was President of the AETM, then becoming a founding Trustee of the History Trust of South Australia and its Chairman from 1987 to 1990. In more recent years he has been a State Government appointed representative on the Board of the National Rail Museum. John has maintained a commitment to the St Kilda Tramway Museum and his life-long interest in Adelaide’s tramways.

Christopher Steele was born in 1937, attended St Peters College at Hackney, South Australia, and from an early age was interested in trams and trolley buses. From 1955, he studied at the then South Australian Institute of Technology and became a survey draftsman for the South Australian Engineering and Water Supply Department. During an extended overseas trip in the 1960s he was able to work on the Bradford trolleybus system in England and later worked on the laying of new railways in Botswana. Christopher was heavily involved with the Tramway Museum from its inception in 1957, being one the foundation members and Trustees. Christopher was also the Secretary of the Australian Electric Traction Association (SA Division) in its early years. Christopher passed away in 2015.