Prior to World War II an international competition was held for design of a standard sailplane for use in Olympic competition in 1940 in Finland. The design chosen was the “Meise” from DFS in Germany and its designer Hans Jacob. The 1940 Olympics were cancelled due to the outbreak of war and post war international gliding competition has been organized as World Championships, not as an Olympic event. After the war the Meise was manufactured by firms in Europe and a few were built by amateurs from plans. In 1945, a United Kingdom firm, Chilton Aircraft Limited, revised the plans for the DFS Meise Olympia keeping its aerodynamic shape and prepared new technical drawings for the production of the Chilton Olympia. It engaged Elliotts of Newbury (a firm with aircraft production experience during the war) to built a set of wings for its prototype. The wings were made by Elliotts but it apparently refused to let Chiltons have the jigs required to build more wings. The matter was resolved by Chiltons transferring its production rights and equipment to Elliotts. Elliotts produced several batches of Olympias (the “EON Olympia”) – probably about 150 in total from 1947 including Marks 1, 2 and 3 versions (featuring some structural changes and design improvements). The Australian Gliding Museum’s Olympia is a Mark 2 (actually 2B according to the logbook) which can be distinguished by the built in main wheel and blown Perspex canopy. It was designated as serial number EON/O/34 by Elliotts. It was damaged badly at Bristol, UK, in 1949. The wreckage was acquired by a Melbourne based syndicate including Dave Darbyshire, and imported into Australia. Additional damage occurred in shipping due to the need to shorten the wings to fit them into a crate. The syndicate rebuilt the glider and re-launched it in 1956 (registration number VH-GHR). It was flown by the syndicate and several gliding clubs in Victoria and South Australia until about 1972. A potentially airworthy example of a now rare sailplane of historical importanceSingle seat wooden sailplane, partly restored.australian gliding, glider, sailplane, dfs, hans jacob, meise, olympics, eon olympia, chilton aircraft, elliotts of newbury, dave darbyshire, great eastern gliding club, barossa valley gliding club, murray bridge gliding club

Printed for her Majesty's stationary office by hydrograph dept. Ministry of Defence (Navy) Repoduced from an origional held by the national maritime Museum C.B.H 14654-dd 125334-10.000-1/80 origional printed J.W water worth.Newspaper Article Denis Mangan wooden frame.

Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photographic collection dating from the nineteenth century. This series of photographs was probably taken at a Farm in Kyneton and shows a similar historic farm to Churchill IslandPhotograph of a stabled horse and wagon in a wooden barnCatalogue number written on reverse in pencil.churchill island, photograph, kyneton

Churchill Island Heritage Farm has a large photograph collection dating from the nineteenth century. Photograph of a horse harness resting on a wooden fence.Catalogue number written on reverse in pencil Written in pen on reverse 'Working horse harness on post + rail fence Churchill Island Easter Festival 30/3/2013'churchill island, photograph

Chrome plated electric iron with wooden handle.domestic equipment, laundering, iron

Wooden model of flume section. Painted brown.bendigo, gold mining

1860's Log Buggy used to move logs from forests to river for transportation to sawmillsLarge wooden wheeled trailer - log buggy

framed colour photo of staff officers 11th December 2000. Back row - F/O Andrew Gaston, F/O Carl Stibilj, F/O Paul Scragg Front row - F/O Greg Mitchell, O/O Stewart Kreltszheim Absent - F/O Shane Suttonbrown wooden framed photo of the staff officersandrew gaston, carl stibilj, paul scragg, greg mitchell, stewart kreltszheim, shane sutton, staff, 2000

Included in the collection of Bill Bakker ex RNEIAAFWooden Plaque presented to Bill Bakker (RAAF)1935-1983 School of Radio RAAF Readiness Through Training Governor General's Banner Presentation 29 April 1983a23.03, bakker

During early farming in Australia (before motorised whipper snippers) the hand held sickle was used to cut long grass, in this case in or around railway tracks. The inside of the blade's curve was sharp, so that the user can either draw or swing it against the base of the grass, catching the stems in the curve and slicing them at the same time. Historic - Railway Permanent Way and Works - track equipment - Grass SlasherWrought iron sickle with extended with wooden handle.puffing billy, extended sickle, farm tool, reaping hook, curved blade, grass cutting

Wooden peg, mushroom top, tapered stemNiltools, peg

Serrated iron blade, 2 wooden handles, Hiram Holt & Co., East Wiltonhay knife, agricultural tools

Object made and used by internees in Camp 3 TaturaSmall Wooden egg cup, hand turnedtatura, egg cup, decker, kazenwadel, handcrafts, woodturning, domestic, items, food, drink, consumption

White ceramic rolling pin with wooden handles.On end of roller: "Made in Germany".rolling pin, ceramic

Made in Camp 3Oval, dark coloured, polished wooden bucklebuckle, wood, vollmer h, camp 3, tatura, ww2, handcrafts, woodwork

made in Camp 3 by internees with wood from wood heapOrnate carved edged wooden rectangular tray.TATURA tray, camp 3, wood, tatura, o'toole, ivy, domestic, trays, food, drink, consumption, handcrafts, carving

This large slide case is original and has been labelled "MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION - Buildings, Art and Landscape, a large collection of well-known national and international examples".Large blue leather, wooden interior casewalsh st miscellaneous