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Halls Gap & Grampians Historical Society
Photograph - B/W
Photo shows men & machinery forming the road up Mt William. There are 8 men, 1 bull-dozer, 1 jeepaccess routes, roads, access routes, mt william road -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - HORWOOD COLLECTION: DEBORAH EXTENDED, c1978
Horwood Collection. Above ground machinery at Deborah Extended. Markings: Deborah Ext'd (I think) SEP78M1. Used as a teaching aid.Kodakmine, gold, deborah extended -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - HORWOOD COLLECTION: DEBORAH EXTENDED, c1978
Horwood Collection. Deborah Extended machinery, young boy standing at rear of machine. Markings: Deborah Ext'd (I think) SEP78M1Kodakmine, gold, deborah extended, horwood collection. deborah extended machinery, young boy standing at rear of machine -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Photograph - Lagoon Confectioners, Peter Parrington, 24 Feb 1999
When Lagoon announced their imminent departure from Port Melbourne, PMH&PS arranged a farewell display for the 1999 Festival. Anne CALLAGHAN and Peter PARRINGTON went to the factory to collect information and memorabilia, and to take these photos.From a group of colour photos taken at Lagoon Confectioners February 1999 prior to their leaving Port Melbourne: close up on machineryindustry - food, business and traders - confectioners, lagoon confectionery pty ltd, bob mcquade, dean mcquade, lorraine mcquade -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - HANRO COLLECTION: KNITTING MILLS
Black and White photo of the interior of the Hanro Knitting Mills, within the image you can see a number of women operating machineryorganization, business, hanro, hanro, hanro knitting mills, knitting mills -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Booklet, Tatura Milk A Century of Dairying 1907-2007, 2007
To commemorate 100 years for Tatura Milk Industries. In 1907 the Tatura Butter Factory was formed. Includes history and photos of early Chairmen and Managers. Bega Cheeses is now a part ownerBrown cover, gold writing on front cover, early photo of factory and trucks and modern machinery. Dairy cattle on the back coverdairying, documents, history, local, rural, industry -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Booklet, Tatura Milk A Century of Dairying 1907-2007, 2007
To commemorate 100 years of Tatura Milk Industries. In 1907 the Tatura Butter Factory was formed. Includes history and photographs of early Chairmen and Managers. Bega Cheese is now part owner.Brown cover, gold writing on front cover early photograph of factory and trucks and modern machinery. Dairy cattle on back coverdairy industry, bega cheese, tatura milk, tatura industries, tatura butter factory -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Image, 1912
Black and white photograph, mounted on grey cardboard, of wheat harvest, showing bags of grain, stack of straw, horses, men and machinery.On back of mount: "Mitchell Bros. Threshing Machine and Chaffcutter props. Balldale, N. S. Wales, 1912"mitchell brothers threshing machine, threshing machinery, chaffcutters, balldale, harvesting -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, Judy Davies, 2000 c
A small album containing thirty two colour photographs of old machinery at East and West side of the Entrance at Lakes Entrance Victoriaenvironment, township -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: COSTINGS MONUMENT, NELL GWYNNE AND DEBORAH MINES
Large spreadsheet detailing quotes received from Miller & Co for machinery to be installed at the Central Nell Gwynne, Monument and Deborah mines.bendigo, gold mining, mccoll rankin and stanistreet, bendigo, gold mining, miller and co., jorgensen, monument hill gold mine, nell gwynne gold mine, deborah gold mine -
National Wool Museum
Photograph - Slide, Stuart Ascough, Gill Box, NSC Schlumberger, 1990s
This slide is part of a collection of visual resources used by Stuart Ascough while conducting training, seminars, conferences and lectures in China, Australia, India, Russia and Taiwan. This item is part of a collection of books, manuals, photographs, letters and clothing relating to the working life of Stuart Ascough. Stuart's career in the wool industry spanned over 43 years from 1960 to 2003 in various roles including Topmaking Plant Manager at Courtaulds Ltd. in Spennymore, U.K., Operations Manager at Port Phillip Mills in Williamstown Victoria, Marketing Executive, Early Stage Wool Processing at the International Wool Secretariat Melbourne, Australia and General Manager of Victoria Wool Processors Pty. Ltd. in Laverton North, Victoria. Throughout his career Stuart travelled extensively, and in the 1990s worked at many topmaking mills in China on quality improvement projects. He also provided technical advice and training at mills in India, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Latvia, Byelorussia and other parts of Europe and Asia.35mm colour transparency mounted in plastic slide mount showing an exterior view of machinery, relating to Gill Box, NSC Schlumberger.wool, industry, australia, australian wool board international wool secretariat, topmaking, carding, factory, training, gill box -
National Wool Museum
Photograph - Slide, Stuart Ascough, Gill Box, NSC Schlumberger, 1990s
This slide is part of a collection of visual resources used by Stuart Ascough while conducting training, seminars, conferences and lectures in China, Australia, India, Russia and Taiwan. This item is part of a collection of books, manuals, photographs, letters and clothing relating to the working life of Stuart Ascough. Stuart's career in the wool industry spanned over 43 years from 1960 to 2003 in various roles including Topmaking Plant Manager at Courtaulds Ltd. in Spennymore, U.K., Operations Manager at Port Phillip Mills in Williamstown Victoria, Marketing Executive, Early Stage Wool Processing at the International Wool Secretariat Melbourne, Australia and General Manager of Victoria Wool Processors Pty. Ltd. in Laverton North, Victoria. Throughout his career Stuart travelled extensively, and in the 1990s worked at many topmaking mills in China on quality improvement projects. He also provided technical advice and training at mills in India, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Latvia, Byelorussia and other parts of Europe and Asia.35mm colour transparency mounted in plastic slide mount showing an exterior view of machinery, a Gill Box from NSC Schlumberger.wool, industry, australia, australian wool board international wool secretariat, topmaking, carding, factory, training, gill box -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - SNOB'S HILL - PLAN OF SNOB'S HILL MINES
a. . Handdrawn copy of Snob's Hill Mines by Caleb Thomas (Long Section) 1885. Top drawing show mines and the distance between them. Lower drawing shows leases at a scale of 8 chains to 1 inch. Dams and sand heaps are included. The second page shows x-sections of the poppet legs and their heights. Shaft numbers are included. Two of the pulley diameters are also shown. b. Document headed Caleb Thomas cross sections 10.10.1884. South Catherine, engine east of shaft legs 44 ft high Ellenborough engine east of shaft, legs 40 feet Belmont and Saxby, engine and wheel west of shaft, legs 27 feet York and Durham, engine and wheel west of shaft legs 27 feet Snobs Hill , Old Williams, engine east of shaft legs 53 feet, L. Brace 21ft. 1884 Acadia Catherine engine west. Legs 44 feet, L.brace 11 ft.map, bendigo, goldfields, snob's hill, plan of snob's hill mines, caleb thomas, c reef united, catherine reef shaft, william's main, acadia, william's old main, gt northern, york & durham, snob's hill, belmont & saxby, ellenborough, st mungo, golden pyke, united c'holders, compy, snowdon & co, sth catherine coy, princess alice, saunders, williams & coy, acadia co, wearon & co, snob's hill, nelson trib, kneebone tribute, la belle co, york & durham, north st mungo, saxby & devonshire trib, n? trib, belmont co, durham c'land, kitti trib, sadowa trib, ran?eu co, nth devonshire co, lady barkly, devonshire reef trib, central devonshire co, j c macartney, catherine united -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - IAN DYETT COLLECTION: AUCTION CATALOGUE - GUILFORD PLATEAU GOLD MINES
Two red covered auction catalogues for a sale at the Guilford Plateau Gold Mines N. L. on 20 November, 1940. For sale was mining machinery, buildings, plant, tools, tubular steel poppet legs, pumps and piping. Contains description of some of the bigger machinery, etc. Auctioneers were J. H. Curnow & Son.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - guilford plateau gold mines n. l., mr e a arnold, j h curnow & son, the cambridge press -
Friends of Kurth Kiln
Spring
Machinery PartSteel Coil Tension Spring 26cm long. 5cm diameter made with 6mm dia round steel. Around loop at each end in the same plane provides for hooking onto equipment -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - STRAUCH COLLECTION: ADOLF RUHEN ENGINE DRIVER CERTIFICATE, 1896
Paper certificate awarded to Adolf Carl August Ruhen from Board of Examiners for Engine Drivers, certificate of Competency as Engine Driver Second Class 14th May 1896. Number of certificate 884, date of birth given 22nd January 1867, place of birth Hamburg Germany.document, certificate, ruhen -
Bay Steamers Maritime Museum
model steam engine
This model was found in the collection of Bay Steamers Maritime Museum. It is not knowt who created it but it is supposed that it was constructed to educate the many masters of the Wattle in the operation of a steam engine - a not so common mode of power these days. A Bay Steamers Maritime Museum examined the model in March 2012 and discovered that is was in poor repair. Using his existing knowledge, and with reference to some historic texts, he made some repairs and returned the model to working order. Here is his anaylsis of the situation as an excerpt from the Bay Steamers Maritime Museum newsletter Steamlines May 2012 "I was confronted with a model of a steam engine used years ago as a training aid for hopeful steam engineers. Already having a knowledge of steam operations, I considered a museum write-up for that model a ‘piece of cake’. However, on turning the model’s crankshaft, the valve timing seemed ‘out of kilter’ with the movement of the piston. Problem was that the two eccentrics on the crankshaft were not properly secured to it. Eventually I fastened the two eccentrics to the crankshaft where I felt that they should be and then realized that one of them had a chain-driven valve-timing device attached. This would be adjusted while an engine was running to achieve best performance and fuel economy whilst in operation by accurately controlling the period of time during which steam under pressure from the boiler would be admitted to the cylinder and give greater time for the steam to expand in the cylinder, move the piston and turn the crankshaft and thus, drive the attached apparatus. When the valves were correctly set up it was then possible to get the model to function properly.The model comprises a green section, which is the actual the model mounted on a brown painted board. There are two parts of the model, painted white representing the steam passages, and black representing the cast- iron portions of the cylinder-block casting, and of the main valve sliding between the cylinder a second sliding valve. Of the black portions, one slides back and forth being connected to a rod which is connected to an eccentric clamped to the crankshaft and is the nearer to the flywheel of two eccentrics. This eccentric is attached to the crankshaft at an angle of 90 degrees to the crank-pin attached to the flywheel. To operate the model simply turn the flywheel by means of the handle attached to its crank-pin. A second eccentric is also attached to the crankshaft, further away from the first eccentric, and it is adjusted to operate 90 degrees from the first eccentric (that is, 180 degrees from the crank-pin) A piston (painted silver) is located in a plastic cylinder and has a piston rod which passes through one end of the cylinder, (in actual practice a steam-proof gland seals the cylinder against loss of steam) terminating in a cross-head slide between four rails guiding it. From this cross-head, a connecting rod joins the piston-rod to the flywheel via the crank-pin attached to the flywheel which is part of the crankshaft. (In actual practice, a flywheel may not be used, particularly in a multi-cylinder engine.) The white portions of the model painted nearest to the cylinder represent the two steam ports cast into the main cylinder block, whilst one section painted in between those two represents the exhaust outlet (which may be connected to a condenser to conserve water, or to the open air). The main slide valve has three white-painted portions painted thereon. It has two white-painted marks representing the steam passages to the steam ports into the cylinder, and a third section in between the other two, being that part of the valve through which exhaust steam passes in line with the ports in the cylinder block. By rotating the flywheel, the operations of an engine will be observed as steam is admitted to the main valve via the gap between the two jaws of two moveable portions of a second sliding valve which is operated by the second eccentric attached to the crank-shaft. This eccentric is used to finely tune the valve timing of this model to obtain best running results of an engine. There are various methods used for reversing a steam engine. model compound steam engine, steam engine, model, crankshaft, valve, flywheel, wattle, engineer, eccentrics -
Orbost & District Historical Society
postcard, Vogt. W.S, first half 20th century
This photograph is of a train on the small rail bridge which crosses over the Burn Road Newmerella cutting. In 1912 work was underway to complete the Bairnsdale to Orbost section of the railway. This meant the end of river transport for the area. The railway was opened on April 10 1916 and closed in 1987. The letter written on the card is from Hilda Graham to her uncle.This item is associated with the history of the Orbost-Bairnsdale railway line and therefore reflects the role that the rail line played in the social and economic history of Orbost.A black / white postcard photograph showing a train engine crossing on a small rail bridge. On the back is a handwritten letter.Photo caption - "NEWMERELLA RAILWAY, ORBOST STANLEY VOGT"newmerella east-gippsland-railway -
Orbost & District Historical Society
black and white photograph, late 19th / early 20th century
This is a photograph of the gravel pit at Newmerella, near Orbost. This pit was used during the construction of the Orbost to Bairnsdale Railway line.This item is associated with the history of the Orbost-Bairnsdale railway line and therefore reflects the role that the rail line played in the social and economic history of Orbost. The Bairnsdale-Orbost railway was opened in 1916 to serve the agricultural and timber industry. Because of the decline in traffic and heavy operating costs, the line was finally closed in August, 1987. A black / white photograph of a small steam engine with open freight wagons at a gravel pit. There are some men watching. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, United States Patent Office, USA Patent Document for Explosive Engine, 1900
Henry Sutton is a talented world-wide accepted inventor with inventions relating to the telephone, photography, wireless, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles as well as many more inventions. Henry was also one of four brothers that ran the Sutton's Music Store after the death of their Father Richard Sutton. Henry Sutton taught Applied Electricity at the Ballarat School of Mines in 1883 to 1886.Foolscap sized document relating to the patent of the "explosive engine". Read seal on front cover and bound by a blue ribbon.Stamp from International Patent and Trademarks office, Edward Waters and Son. Handwritten Case 2 with circle around it.usa, henry sutton, united states of america, patent, explosive engine, combustion engine, edward waters and son, walter smythe bayton -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Photograph - Photograph - Syd Cuffe, Town Crier Portland 150th Celebrations 1984, 19/11/1984
Syd Cuffe was the Portland Town Crier from 1983 to 2013. The role of Town Crier was created for Syd Cuffe in 1983 in the lead up to Portland’s 150th anniversary celebrations held in 1984-85. 200 items from Mr. Cuffe’s estate were donated to the Glenelg Shire Cultural Collection. The items relate to his town crying activities and community work across the Shire and further afield. In November 1984 Portland marked the 150th anniversary of European settlement and the foundation of the City of Portland. Various events happened in and around Portland, many community ledColoured photo. Group of people, vintage car, steam engine and carriages. Portland's 150th Anniversary celebrations 1984.portland 150th celebrations -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - STEAM LOCOMOTIVE WITH TENDER
Black and white photograph of a steam locomotive with coal tender engine number H220, in a timber frame under glass.photograph, train, steam train -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE EDWARD HENTY
Black and white photograph of diesel locomotive Edward Henty engine number 302, under glass in a timber frame.photograph, train, diesel -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - AUSTIN COLLECTION:ENGINEER OPERATING MINE ENGINE
Black and white photo with mine engineer,Mick Amarto operating the mines engines at Central Deborah Mine, Bendigo.mining, business, central deborah gold mine -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - BENDIGO TRAIN IN TOWN, Feb 1970
Slide. Bendigo Train in Town. The Engine is moved on rails in from the railway yards, between the Buckell & Jeffery buildings.slide, bendigo, bendigo train in town., bendigo train in town. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - BENDIGO TRAIN IN TOWN, June 1970
Slide. Bendigo Train in Town. 'R' Class 766 Engine, at rest in park near Bendigo Railway Station.slide, bendigo, bendigo train in town., bendigo train in town. -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Leisure object - Toy Train Engine
Metal toy train engine painted yellow and red with black coal scuttle at rear. (Despite inscription there is no Noddy)A Budgie toy/Noddy and his train.toys, general -
Dandenong/Cranbourne RSL Sub Branch
Book of Pilot's Notes, Pilot,s Notes General. 2nd Edition, April 1943
Book of Pilot's Notes General. Promulgated by order of the Air Council. Contains notes on Aircraft , engines, and dealing with emergencies. -
The Ed Muirhead Physics Museum
Diamond scriber in vial
Small metal cylindrical pole stored in plastic vial with lid and cushioned by cotton wool Part for a ruling engine.Unattached note by H C Bolton handwritten paper label in vial: “Diamond point made by GM Stfff Chem Phys”. (Geoff Stiff, Tech. officer Monash U. Chemical Physics) -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Tool - Mortice Machine, Mathieson and Son, 1910-1940
In 1792 John Manners had set up a workshop making woodworking planes at 14 Saracens Lane Glasgow. He also had employed an apprentice Alexander Mathieson (1773-1851). But in the following year at Saracen's Lane, the 1841 census describes Alexander Mathieson as a master plane-maker now at 38 Saracen Lane with his son Thomas Adam working with him as a journeyman plane-maker. Presumably, Alexander must have taken over the premises and business of John Manners. Now that the business had Thomas Adam Mathieson working with his father it gradually grew and became more diversified, and it is recorded at the time by the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory that by 1847-1848 Alexander Mathieson was a “plane, brace, bit, auger & edge tool maker” In 1849 the firm of James & William Stewart at 65 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh was taken over and Thomas was put in charge of the business, trading under the name Thomas A. Mathieson & Co. as plane and edge-tool makers. Thomas's company went on to acquire the Edinburgh edge-tool makers “Charles & Hugh McPherson” and took over their premises in Gilmore Street. In the Edinburgh directory of 1856/7, the business is recorded as being Alexander Mathieson & Son, plane and edge-tool makers at 48 Nicolson Street and Paul's Work, Gilmore Street Edinburgh. In the 1851 census, Alexander is recorded as working as a tool and plane-maker employing eight men. Later that year Alexander died and his son Thomas took over the business. Under the heading of an edge-tool maker in the 1852/3 Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory the firm is now listed as Alexander Mathieson & Son, with further entries as "turning-lathe and vice manufacturers". By the early 1850s, the business had moved to 24 Saracen Lane. The directory for 1857/8 records that the firm had moved again only a few years later to East Campbell Street, off the Gallowgate area, and that through further diversification was also manufacturing coopers' and tinmen's tools. The ten-yearly censuses report the firm's growth in 1861 stating that Thomas was a tool manufacturer employing 95 men and 30 boys; in 1871 he had 200 men working for him and in 1881 300 men. By 1899 the firm had been incorporated as Alexander Mathieson & Sons Ltd, even though only Alexander's son Thomas appears ever to have joined the firm so the company was still in his fathers' name. In September 1868 Thomas Mathieson put a notice in the newspapers of the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent and the Sheffield Daily Telegraph stating that his firm had used the trade-mark of a crescent and star "for some time" and that "using or imitating the Mark would be proceeded against for infringement". The firm had acquired its interest in the crescent-and-star mark from the heirs of Charles Pickslay, the Sheffield cutler who had registered it with the Cutlers' Company in 1833 and had died in 1852. The year 1868 seems also to be the one in which the name Saracen Tool Works was first adopted; not only does it figure at the foot of the notice in the Sheffield press, it also makes its first appearance in the firm's entry in the Post-Office Glasgow Annual Directory in the 1868/9 edition. As Thomas Mathieson's business grew, so too did his involvement in local public life and philanthropy. One of the representatives of the third ward on the town council of Glasgow, he became a river bailie in 1868, a magistrate in 1870, and a preceptor of Hutcheson's Hospital in 1878. He had a passion for books and was an "ardent Ruskinian". He served on the committee handling the bequest for the setting up of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. When he died at Coulter Maynes near Biggar in 1899, he left an estate worth £142,764. Company's later years: Both Thomas's sons, James Harper and Thomas Ogilvie were involved in the continuing life of the firm. James followed in his father's footsteps in becoming a local public figure. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow and was made a deacon of the Incorporation of the Hammermen of Glasgow in 1919. His brother Thomas Ogilvie was recorded as a tool manufacturer and employer in the 1911 census. Thomas Ogilvie's son Thomas Alastair Sutherland Ogilvie Mathieson was born in 1908 took a rather different approach to engineering, however, by becoming a racing driver. In 1947 he wed the French film actress Mila Parély. The firm had won many awards at world fairs for their goods. At the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. Prize medal for joiners' tools in the class of Cutlery & Edge Tools, Great London Exposition, 1862. Prize medal honoris causa. International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880. Gold medal International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Edinburgh, 1886 Prize medal. See note section for Thomas McPherson Australian Retailer information: The firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons was one of the leading makers of hand tools and later woodworking machines in Scotland. Its success went hand in hand with the growth of the shipbuilding industries on the Firth of Clyde in the nineteenth century and the emergence of Glasgow regarded as the "second city of the Empire". It also reflected the firm's skill in responding to an unprecedented demand for quality tools by shipyards, cooperages, and other industries, both locally and throughout the world. McPherson's started as an Australian retailer of hardware products in Melbourne going on to become a company that supplied machinery and other items for the establishment of major infrastructure projects in Australia during the early days of the colony that assisted in linking the various states and territories which became a precursor of Federation. From a humble beginning McPherson's became one of Australia's leading retail, and later manufacturing businesses that is still in existence today.Mortice machine metal with long metal lever handle with counter weight & 3 adjustment wheels & metal crank with wood end. Has 4 feet that can be bolted to floor & vertical moving piece that a cutting bit would fit into.Imprinted Alex Mathieson & Son Trademark Saracen Tool works Glasgow' also a brass plate "Thomas McPherson & Son Machinery Importer Melbourne"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village