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Puffing Billy Railway
NKS 9, Victorian Railways 2'6" gauge trolly
NKS Type Gangers Trolly - Victorian Railways 2'6" gauge trolley - a KS series Section Car oftern called the Kasey Jones The narrow gauge version of the broad gauge KS series cars. They were classed NKS with two stroke motors. These cars were built by the Spotswood Workshops, with castings coming from the Newport Workshops. KS is lighter car capable of carrying 4 men or sevenhundredweight Trolly 9 was built for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria for use on their metre gauge railway of Yallourn. It was sold to a preservation group at Walhalla and regauged to 2 foot 6 inch. It came to the Puffing Billy Railway in the early 1980s.Historic - Victorian Railways Narrow Gauge - Track Patrol Vehicle used by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria for use on their 900mm gauge railway of Yallourn. And then at Walhalla Railway where it was regauged to 2 foot 6 inchMotorised small rectangular trolly made of wood and wrought iron - currently stored dismantled Engine Type: 1 Cyl. reversible Fuel: 2 stroke Transmission: Belt driveNKS 9puffing billy, puffing billy museum, trolley, narrow gauge, 2'6" gauge, victorian railways, state electricity commission of victoria - yallourn., trolly -
Sunbury Family History and Heritage Society Inc.
Photograph, Rail
A black and white photograph with a white border in post card format of a steam train and its carriages on its side. Workmen are working to prepare the engine to be lifted back onto the tracks. -
Surrey Hills Historical Society Collection
Photograph, J515 Steam train leaving Chatham station towards Surrey Hills, c1991
A coloured photograph of a steam train. The black steam engine has a number J515 on the side of it, and a red stripe along the lower edge. There is a red coloured carriage being pulled behind it.J515 At / Surrey Hillssurrey hills, trains, steam train, sunbury crescent -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Initial Study To Redesign Jindivik Wing
Description: 6 pages. Published by GAF. Published July 1966. Various Davis Jet Engine Assessed and Performance of Jindivik Compared with Current Bristol Siddeley Viper Engine Level of Importance: World. -
National Wool Museum
Photograph, 4-stand self contained shearing plant
Photograph of Cooper shearing plant.Photograph of Cooper shearing plant.4-stand self contained shearing plant powered by 4 H.P. Cooper petrol engine designed for use in South Africa circa 1950shearing machinery, cooper engineering company pty ltd -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Traction Engine transporting a Large Boiler at Landsborough
Traction Engine and Large Boiler at Landsboroughstawell -
City of Ballarat Libraries
Photograph - Card Box Photographs, Locomotive Engine, Lydiard Street North Railway Crossing 1952
Locomotive engine R759 R756 R714?locomotive, lydiard street north, vehicle, train, public -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (Item) - CAC F/A-18 Report on Overseas Visit by Russell W. Pettis to General Electric, Report Number NTF16-GT-61 Overseas Visit by Russell W. Pettis 2 Week Training at G.E. Lynn Works Associated with Process Control of F404 Component Manufacture
Report relates to F404 engine manufacture -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Document (Item) - CAC F/A-18 Report on F404-GE-400, F404-GE-400 Component Improvement Program Proposal to Study Coating Distress on Fan and Compressor Blade Dovetails
Report relates to F404 engine manufacture -
Moorabbin Air Museum
document (item) - John Wells Collection - see Description for details of photo collection
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Yarra Glen & District Historical Society
Black and white photographs, Yarra Glen Railway Station
Black and white reproduction of a sepia postcard. Diagonally across the centre of the picture is a steam engine with goods train of mixed railway trucks. Three men are on the steam engine. The back end of the train is near the railway station platform. The goods shed is on the other side of the train. Beyond that are a post and rail fence and trees lining the Yarra River. In the foreground is small pitched tent. Other railway trucks and piles of timber and other goods are in the railway yard.yarra glen, post and rail fence, yarra glen railway station, railway station, goods shed, steam train, goods train, railway trucks, tent, pitched tent -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ALBERT RICHARDSON COLLECTION: A LOOK AT A MINE, LOOKING AROUND LONG GULLY 1900'S
Blue exercise book in which is a handwritten, in blue biro, a description of the basic principles under which most of the Bendigo mines operated, titled ' A look at a mine'. Information provided on four compartment shafts, poppet heads, boilers, engine rooms, skyshafts, landing brace, engine drivers. In the back section of the book is a recount of what Long Gully was like in the early 1900's, titled 'Around Long Gully in the early 1900's'Albert Richardsonbendigo, mining, albert richardson -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE NORTH DEBORAH MINE
North Deborah Mine in Eve Street, Bendigo, operated between 1937 and 1954. In that time it produced 128,000 ounces of gold.Black and white photograph of the North Deborah Mine, showing the poppet head, mullock heap to the left, man at the end of railway at the first level, does not show cables from the engine house to the wheels on top of the poppet, water tank at the side of the engine house, farm style corner of a fence at left of photo, small shed housing a pump for water, right foreground is a dam for water waiting to be converted to steam to operate the cable winder.mining, surface equipment, north deborah mine -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MINING REPORTS - BENDIGO MINING REPORTS
BHS CollectionOne handwritten and typed copies (3 of page 1, 3 of page 2, 2 of page 3 and 2 of page 4). Notes include an introduction which mentions the noise of the mining activities, all the machinery being made in Bendigo by the local foundries and the end of the mining.There are explanations of poppet legs or heads, landing brace, intermediate brace, safety brace, pulley wheels, boilers, winding engine, types of engines and air compressors.document, gold, mining reports, mining reports, bendigo mining reports, a. roberts & sons, h.harkness and coy, horsfield's, south new moon, central deborah, great extended hustlers, wattle gully mine chewton, big deborah mine, royal hustlers reserve no 2 shaft, the city, johnsons reef no 2, lansell's comet, south devonshire, great southern, victoria quartz, lansell's big '180', little '180', new moon, big blue, central blue, central nell gwynne, lansell's sandhurst or 'needle' mine, eureka extended -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, McPherson's Engineering Catalogue
... engines ...Soft covered catalogue with illustrations and photographsnon-fictionengineering, catalogue, mcpherson's, thomas mcpherson and son, engines, drills, tools -
Bendigo Military Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH of an AIRPLANE, RAAF, c1942
This photo relates to Ronald Leslie Schorey Dickinson RAAF, refer Cat No 7260 for service details. This is a black and white photo of a twin engine Beaufort Bomber in flight. It is flying low to the ground. Under the plane is flat ground with a few gum trees. In the background is a water way of some sort.Written on the back in blue ink is; "Beaufort Bomber being flown at Sale by Flying Officer Peter John Gibbs D.F.C in 1942. When I was at RAAF Laverton as a RAAF Cadet in 1942, F/O Peter Gibbs took me for my first ever flight in a similar plane".ww2, photo, aircraft, beaufort bomber -
Bendigo Military Museum
Booklet, Aircraft Identification, Friend or Foe - Part 3, 1941
Item in the collection of Arthur Thomas MANLY No 431130 RAAF. refer Cat No 3710 for his service details.Cardboard cover, brown ink, image of stylized searchlight beams locking onto a twin engine aircraft. Print is off white. 64 pages. Illustrated, including descriptions of each aircraft.Stamp in blue ink on front: TECHNICAL BOOK & MAGAZINE CO SWANSTON ST MELBOURNE Price bottom R: 2/-booklet, raaf, identification of italian planes -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, John Barker, Internal Combustion Engine Driven Heat Pump, 1983
John C. Barker, the son of E.J. Barker , studied Mechanical Engineering at the Ballarat College of Advanced Education, and completed his final year in 1983..1 - Internal Combustion Engine Driven Heat Pump project report .2 - Final Year Engineering Degree Projects 1983 (Full catalogue) .3) Four-figue mathematical tables.On .3 "John C. Barker Ballarat College" in handwriting on the front cover.john c. barker, engineering, heat pump, combustion engine -
Federation University Historical Collection
Certificate - Certicate, Engine Driver's Certificate of Competency (Without Examination) for Henry Rankin Shaw, 1908, 29/10/1908
Henry Shaw was born at Nerrina near Ballarat, Victoria on 10 November 1863. He studied at the Ballarat School of MinesEngine Driver's Certificate from the Western Australia presented to Henry Rankin Shaw. No. 81. Entered into Register Vol. 1, Folio 246 on 29 October 1908 at Perth, Western Australia.henry shaw, henry rankin shaw, engine driver, certificate, nerrina, nerina, liitle bendigo -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS NO. 3770 COLLECTION: CORRESPONDENCE
Wandelin Hiler 27 years of age wife name Wilhelmine age 35 one child engines New Chum at Balastd's machine Proposed by YC Kaenicte seconded by B. Eu?societies, aof, correspondence, ancient order of foresters no. 3770 collection - correspondence, wandelin hiler, wilhelmine hiler, balastd's machine, y c kaenicte, b eu? -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - DEBORAH EXTENDED MINE, 1960's ?
black and white photo : machinery in mine. Corrugated iron shed. Cable on large wheel. Winding engine. ' Horwood & Sons Winder, Deborah Extended Mine - now on display on Central Deborah ' .Alan Doney ( J. Lerk 17.3.2000 )organization, business, deborah extended mine -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph, James Lauritz, West side of Centenary Bridge looking towards Government Engine Works, 1989 - 1990
West side of Centenary Bridge looking towards Government Engine Works. James Lauritz print of Port Melbourne, laminated (one of 18). Copies of slides produced for Port Melbourne Counciljames lauritz, commonwealth government engine works, piers and wharves - station pier, centenary bridge -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - HARRY BIGGS COLLECTION:CLAYDONS MACHINE
Photograph of a team of cattle hitched to a threshing machine, there is a group of men beside the machine and behind them is a traction engine. Written underneath is East Loddon Shire. Claydons Machine at Elmwood Serpentine,topic, farming, threshing, threshing machine, claydons machine, east loddon shire, elmwood serpentine -
Friends of Kurth Kiln
Solomano Gas Producer Unit, circa 1940
Les Solomano tells us this unit was made by their cousin Frank Solomano and mounted on the passenger side running board of his A Model Ford, Spare bads of charcoal were tied to the rear door, so passengers had to get in and out through the driver side doors. It is the smallest Gas Producer unit we have seenThis Gas Producer unit is obviously a home made construction for a specific application. Absence of any air-cooling facilities suggests these may have been fitted separately inside the engine compartment.No specific marlings -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1938
Also two black and white copies 12.5 x 17.5 cm, second copy 10 x 15 cm.Black and white photograph showing remains of the S S JCD on extreme left, No. 9 engine powered stone barge centre and rebuilt Lady Harriet barge on right. Paynesville Victoria.ships and shipping, waterways, fences -
Old Colonists' Association of Ballarat Inc.
Prince of Wales Gold Mining Co Registered, Sebastopol, Ballarat
The Nelson and Wellington Gold Mining Company, Sebastopol was registered in May 1856.The framed hand coloured lithograph shows the exterior of the Prince of Wales Gold Mining Co Registered, Sebastopol, Ballarat, and the interior of the quartz Crushing and Engine House. It also includes a lost of shareholders. sebastopol, herman deutsch, prince of wales gold mining company of sebastopol -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Photograph, Brucker, Locos 5A and 14A at Colac siding, c.1930, c.1930
Locomotives 5A and 14A on a siding at Colac with a boy standing in front. In the background an engine shed and goods sheds, while on the left hand side a louvre van and NQ truck. B/W.colac: beech forest; railway; loco 5a; loco 14a; -
Otway Districts Historical Society
Photograph, Knox Collection, Beech Forest: train hauling timber, 1912
B/W/ "NA" class locomotive, NQR wagons and NC guard's van hauling timber near Gardner's property in Beech Forest in 1912. Note the workmen clustered on the engine and wagons.beech forest; railway; -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BENDIGO ORDINANCE FACTORY COLLECTION: MAN OPERATING AND MANUFACTURING A SECTION OF AN EXHAUST MANIFOLD FOR DOXFORD OPPOSED PISTON DIESEL ENGINE
B&W photo ofg a man operating a large scale machine to manufacture a section of an exhaust manifold for a Doxford oppopsed piston diesel engine; at theCommonwealth Government Ordinace Factory Bendigo -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (Item) - Continental Aircraft Engines Series O-470 Io-470 Overhaul Manual
Description: Continental Engines Level of Importance: World.