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Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, Rev. L. Farquhar Gunn, Undated
Gunn was Stated Clerk of the Victorian Presbyterian Assembly until 1976. In 1986 he had been ordained 50 years. Gunn was ordained on February 12, 1936 in New Zealand. He served in three parishes before chaplaincy with the 20th Armoured Regiment in WW2. He was awarded the MBE for devotion to duty and recovering wounded soldiers across a minefield under mortar fire. He was called to St Andrew's Gardiner in 1955 and became the Stated Clerk of the Assembly in 1969, and in 1970 was also Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of Australia. He was Moderator of Victoria in 1965 and 1967. He chaired the Joint Constituional Council and the commission set up to prepare the interim constituion of the Uniting Church. He presided over the inaugural assembly of the UCA on June 22 1977 and made the declaration of inauguration.Gunn seated at his desk holding the telephone.Name.gunn, l. farquhar, victorian presbyterian assembly, general assembly of australia -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Field Telephone
Field telephone set (F1) with wooden boxequipment, 1942, army -
Ringwood RSL Sub-Branch
Equipment. Telephone Set
Army issue telephone on metal case. Khaki -
Greensborough Historical Society
Business card, John's Barber Shop, 2019_
John's Barber Shop is a men's hairdresser at 4 Hailes Street East GreensboroughPart of a collection relating to local businesses.Printed on one side in red and blue on white cardTelephone no. and addresshairdessers, hailes street greensborough -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Timer, 1940s
Australia's first telephone exchange was opened in Melbourne in August 1880. It was operated by the Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company. Owned by W. H. Masters and T. T. Draper, the Manager of the Company was H. Byron Moore. This was only two years after the world's first exchange in the United States, and just four years after Bell first spoke on a telephone. The exchange was located in the old Stock Exchange building at 367 Collins Street, a site now occupied by the Commonwealth Bank. In 1884, the operations of the Company, by then known as the Victorian Telephone Exchange Company, had grown considerably and were transferred to Wills Street, Melbourne. Private ownership of this company continued until 1887 when it was bought out by the Victorian Colonial Government. Other colonial governments followed this example. By 1910, the growth in telephone services made additional accommodation necessary. This could not be provided in the existing building in Wills Street and arrangements were made for a new exchange in Lonsdale Street. Alexander Graham Bell visited Australia in 1910 to advise the Federal Government's Postal Commission. Telephone exchanges were established in Adelaide with (48 subscribers), Hobart (10 subscribers) and Launceston (35 subscribers). The first exchange in Western Australia was established in 1887 and located in a small three-room cottage in Wellington Street, Perth with 17 subscribers. The year 1888 marked the opening of the Fremantle exchange in a small room at the rear of the Town Hall. There were nine subscribers. Australia's first automatic exchange was installed in the GPO in Sydney, in 1911, for internal use. But the first automatic exchange for public use was opened at Geelong in Victoria in the next year July 1912 with 800 subscribers. Melbourne's first automatic exchange was opened in the suburb of Brighton in 1914; the first public automatic exchange in NSW began operating at Newtown, Sydney in 1915; and Queensland's first was installed at South Brisbane in 1925. 1929 saw the opening of Tasmania's first automatic exchange in Hobart. an automatic telephone service. In June 1977, the manual telephone exchange at Swansea was replaced with an automatic service and made Tasmania the first State in Australia to have a fully automatic network. The half-century following Federation saw the growth of the automatic operation; a great extension of trunk line services; The automatic telephone contributed greatly to the early popularity of telephones in Australia. It was a quicker and more convenient way of communicating with another person on the same exchange — instead of having to go through tedious processes with the operator. From its introduction, the number of automatic telephones in operation grew to a remarkable extent. In 1886, the first trunk link of 16 km was connected to the exchanges of Adelaide and Port Adelaide in South Australia. Then, in 1907, the first inter-capital telephone trunk line was opened between Sydney and Melbourne. It was followed by a line between Melbourne and Adelaide in 1914. Sydney and Brisbane were linked in 1923, and Perth and Adelaide in 1930. In 1930, the first overseas calls from Australia came possible with the introduction of a radiotelephone service to England, and through there to Europe and America. A similar service opened to New Zealand in the same year. Initially, trunk channels linked different manual trunk exchanges. It was necessary for a succession of trunk operators to connect the appropriate channels, one after the other until the connection was made. As trunk traffic grew. the system became increasingly unsuitable. More trunk operators had to be employed and so labour costs increased. It was a tedious and slow way of making a long-distance call, and it was sometimes hard to hear, particularly when several exchanges were linked With technical advances, trunk switching moved from manual operation through a partly automatic phase. Automatic transit switching equipment was used and only a single operator was required to connect a trunk call to a wanted automatic subscriber. Until well beyond the middle of this century, the majority of trunk traffic went through this single telephonist control. In 1953, the number of telephones in use in Australia passed the one million mark. By then, the need for improvement in the automatic exchanges was becoming well recognised. The need was for a telephone switching system which would do a better job more economically than the conventional step-by-step ex-change. This led to the adoption of the Crossbar system as the standard in automatic telephone exchanges in 1960. The introduction of Crossbar switching was a big step forward in the automation of trunk calls. It substituted automatic switching and charging equipment for the originating trunk operator, and improved the quality of the system radically. Before the introduction of the Crossbar system there were often very long delays in obtaining a booked trunk call, and the quality of sound was often very poor. With Crossbar, Subscriber Trunk Dialing (STD) became a reality. A trunk call by STD was as easy to make and almost as fast to connect as a local call.The item was made around the 1940s and used up until the 1970s in manual cord telephone exchanges as a way to time and charge users for trunk calls made over the telecom system of the time. Post Master General dept. - Trunk Call Timer.Inscribed PMG, C. of A, 37. Bell chimes at 3 min increments.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, timer, trunk call, telephone, cord exchange -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Letter - Correspondence, Telephones new system, 10/08/1937
Letter to Lampson Store Service Co informing them that quotation from Telephone Construction and Maintenance Co had been accepted for installation of a private inter-communication telephone system into the municipal chambers at Tunstall in 1937. Quotation from New System Telephone Pty Ltd includedlocal government, telephone construction and maintenance co, new system telephones pty ltd, shire of blackburn and mitcham, telephone services -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Memorabilia - Realia, 1980's
Red plastic Childs Money Box (Telephone Box)stawell -
Greensborough Historical Society
Business card, Watsonia Wool Shop, 1999_
Established 1999, the business closed about 2016.Business card, black print on green"Contact Elizabeth", telephone number and address. "Carol" and telephone number handwritten on reverse.watsonia wool shop -
Greensborough Historical Society
Business Card, Sweet Pea Florist, 2018c
Business card advertising Sweet Pea Florist in Briar HillCard, printed in colour both sidesAddress and telephone numberflorists, brair hill -
Greensborough Historical Society
Business card, Sienna's meat & poultry, 2019_
Sienna's meat and Poultry is a butcher's shop in Greensborough Plaza; Bill Battaglia, ManagerPart of a collection relating to local businesses.Black and white print on white card, printed on both sides. 2 copiesAddress, telephone no. and informationbutchers, greensborough plaza -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, White and Yellow Pages (Ararat, Bacchus Marsh, Ballarat, Horsham, Nhill, Stawell), 2006/2007, 2006
Soft covered telephone directory covering the 053 area code. telephone directory, white pages, yellow pages, 053 area code, telstra -
Ambulance Victoria Museum
Telstra Mobile Telephone
Black telephone woth 18 buttons on front face and screen.NEC -
Running Rabbits Military Museum operated by the Upwey Belgrave RSL Sub Branch
Field Telephone
Model 92 Japanese field telephone, with carry case (EQ462A)equipment, ww2, army -
Victoria Police Museum
Photograph (police motorcycle)
Ariel motorbike, registration number CC-434, and rider parked near a number of empty livestock trucks. On the right hand side is a telephone pole and wooden telephone box. Circa 1960.police vehicles; wireless patrol; motor transport branch; motor transport section; police motorcycles; ariel motorcycle -
National Communication Museum
Vehicle - Mobile Telephone Exchange, c. 1965
Manufactured in the 1960s, this mobile emergency telephone exchange was fitted into a caravan. Part of the Shepparton Division State Disaster Plan, the caravan could be towed to areas affected by disasters to enable communications to recommence. The caravan remained in service until approximately 1974.Mobile infrastructure plays an important role in Australian communications, owing to the often remote and hostile environments in which Australians live and work. Exchanges such as this facilitated phone calls in the aftermath of an emergency, particularly for hospitals, police and other emergency services. Today, Mobile Exchange on Wheels (MEOWs), Cell on Wheels (CoW) and Satellite Cell on Wheels (SatCOW) - which provide temporary landline and broadband services, mobile phone coverage and service in areas without communications infrastructure respectively - are a critical part of emergency response procedures for natural disasters such as fire and flood. Though technology has progressed, the need for rapid service in remote areas remains a present concern of the communications service providers in Australia. This mobile service infrastructure is historically significant as an early example of a service which has evolved over decades, yet is still needed today. The exchange, as a representative example of a vehicle which would provide early-response in a disaster, is socially significant as a facilitator of critical communications needs in devastated communities: access to emergency services and contact with family and friends. The exchange itself, intact from its period of use, provides an insight into technology of the 1970s.Mobile emergency exchange housed in a caravan trailer on 2 wheel base, duralin body, steel tow bar, Caravan divided into 3 sections; the exchange room; the relay room and the main frame room. The exchange room contains 3 switchboards, a folding table, cupboards, benches and switch rack (.1). table (.2), steel bar for attaching the table (.3), back boards of switchboards (.4-.6), switches (.7-.16), box of switches (.17). There is a wall phone magneto, 300 type handset on wall and 2 skylights with wire screens. .11? hat pegs and shelf; there are 2 fluorescent tubes for lighting, all in exchange section. The floor is covered with 2 tone grey tiles and there are wire mesh on outside of windows and a geometric curtain inside behind switch rack. There is a flywire screen door as well as exterior door. The relay room has a sectioned door so half can open at a time. Room contains a cupboard with folding bench top beneath a curtained window. The opposite wall has a bank of batteries and transmission condensers; there is a shelf above window, one fluorescent tube and fuse boxes. Tiles on floor also. The main frame room contains many metres of coiled black covered cable, a black covered magneto wall telephone with 300 type handset; grey plastic jumper cords, a rack of termination points and wire with wasp nests attached. There is a small iron step under door, a fluorescent tube on wall and 3 hat hooks. Roll of Paper Handtowels (.18), cord and handle (.19), red exchange cords and plugs (.20-.22), plastic aluminium runners (.23,.24), headset (.25,.26), logbook (.27), battery readings (.28), box containing papers circuit drawings etc (.29-.93), paper lists off wall (.94,.95). Books, record books etc (.96-.103). Manila folder (.104) containing circuit drawings (105-.124). Wooden drawer (.125), metal drawer containing subscribers master cards, record of faults cards, particular switchboards connected, Junction line cards (.126). Box of valves (.127), box of clamps (.128). Box of 2000 type rack fuses, red 1 1/2 AMPS, black 3 AMP, blue 1/2 AMP (.129). Box of sleeves for covering wire joints (.130), plastic beakers (.131,.132), soap (.133), box of white plastic squares (.134), time switch "Venner BF/43 time switch" Made in England (.135), box of bolts, knobs etc (.136), box of switchboard number indicators (.137), fuse (.138), fuse wire (.139), football card (.140). Box of cartridge fuse 6 AMP (.141). Envelope of drawing pins, rubber bands (.142), black plastic, paper tape centres (.143-.152), metal plug (.153), 2 signs "Beware of vehicles" (.154-.155). Paper listing Naringal East automatic conversion (.156). Green Commonwealth of Australia note pad (.157). Wiring plug for tail lights (.158). Black fuse plugs (.159,.160). Box of bolts (.161). 2 sections of blue plastic coated wires (.162,.163). Gloves used for working on batteries (.164-.167). Wasp nests (.168,.169). White fuse (.170). Photographs of van in use (.171,.172)..1 on front: "ANOTHER / MOBILETRAIL / PRODUCT" "MAX SPEED / 25MPH" "TRAILER BRAKES / --- / " On sides: "EMERGENCY TELEPHONE EXCHANGE" "NO 1" "PMG" "TCQ / GROSS 250 / TARE 182 / LOAD 162" "6" "COUNTRY BRANCH / NORTH REGION / [SHEPPARTON DIVISION]" "LAW'S SIGNS" "Telecom Australia" On back: "DANGER / LONG LOAD" "MQA 3787" .133: "FIR OIL" "AUSTRALIA"mobile telephone exchanges, mobile telecommunications trailers, trailers, transport, natural disaster, black saturday, bushfires, floods, emergency communications -
Uniting Church Archives - Synod of Victoria
Photograph, Sara Heilbronn - Ecumenical Mission librarian, 1986
"Videos reveal church at work - Fourteen video cassettes which reveal the church community at work both in Australia and abroad are being offered for the establishment of video libraries…"B & W photograph of SaraHeilbronn standing behind a pile of videos and a telephone.C&N identification.ecumenical mission, video library, heilbronn, sara -
Canterbury History Group
Photograph - Laneway between the Telephone Exchange and No. 141 Maling Road, Jan Pigot, 27/03/1993 12:00:00 AM
Coloured photograph of the laneway between the Telephone Exchange and No. 141 Maling Roadcanterbury, maling road, shops, laneways -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Letter - Correspondence, Intercommunicating Telephones, 30/07/1937
Letter to the Shire Secretary of Tunstall from Standard Telephones with a quotation for supply and installation of intercommunicating telephones 1937. Also another letter from Automatic Electric Company saying they were unable to tender for same.telephones -
Hume City Civic Collection
Photograph, Late 1980's
The series of seven photographs highlight examples of vandalism within the town centre precinct. Most of the vandalism occurred on public buildingsA coloured photograph of public telephones and the taxi rank in Evans Street. The telephone directories have been torn up an thrown around the brick pavement along with other litter. The trunk of an elm tree is in the middle of the photograph.vandalism, evans street, taxi ranks, public telephones, telstra, telecom, george evans collection -
Greensborough Historical Society
Advertising Leaflet, Watsonia Primary School Open Day 16 March [2019], 2019_03
Watsonia Primary School Open Day and school fair, 10.00 - 2.00 pm, 16/03/2019.Printed on one side in green and pink on white paperAddress, email and telephone numberwatsonia primary school -
Melbourne Legacy
Letter, To Robert Bowring from Rob C. Allison, 2000
A file copy of a letter sent from Legatee Rob Allison to Robert Bowring (6th November 2000) in answer to a request regarding the origins of the first Dawn Service. Legatee Rob Allison signed himself as the Chairman, Advisory Tradition and History Committee. To research his response he consulted the AWM and summarised the content in the letter and enclosed four articles. Unfortunately the four articles sent to Robert Bowring are not included here. L/- Rob Allison makes reference to information obtained from Dr Richard Reid (historian at the Australian War Memorial and then the Commonwealth Branch of the Department of Veterans Affairs). Also Rob Allison makes reference to Lyn Witheridge (Australian War Memorial and later with the Centenary Federation Secretariat). He was addressing the rumour that there was a Dawn Service held in Albany WA in 1914 when the first convoy in WW1 from Australia was about to sail from Albany. The letter also makes reference to a gathering at Toowoomba QLD on Anzac morning 1919, however that rumour suggest that flowers were placed on returned soldiers graves, L/- Allison cast doubt about the placing of flowers on graves of returned service personnel, because only Major General Bridges and the Australian Unknown Soldier were the only two WW1 troops killed in action, to be returned to Australia.A record that members of the public approached Legacy with questions about military and post war history. Legatee Allison made an effort to research and base his reply on evidence.White paper with black type, a facsimile of a letterTelephone No 61395620309 top right.research, world war one -
Greensborough Historical Society
Business card, Hair Lounge "Addicted to Style", 2019_
Hair Lounge is a hairdresser Shop 9 111 Mountain View Road Briar HillPart of a collection relating to local businesses.Printed both sides in black on white cardboardAddress, telephone no. and space for appointmentshairdressers -
Greensborough Historical Society
Business card, Health Land, 2019_
Health Land is a health and wellness massage service, located at 3/83 Main Street GreensboroughPart of a collection relating to local businesses.Printed in green and orange on white card, on both sidesTelephone no., address and services informationhealth, main street greensborough -
National Wool Museum
Archive - Advertisement, Collins Bros Mill Pty Ltd, 1961
Collector's note: "For more than 100 years blankets were made all over Australia in over 100 woollen mills. My aim, is to preserve 100 examples of these wonderful pieces of history. Ten years ago I started collecting the iconic Onkaparinga travel rugs, so that on movie nights at home there would be plenty to go around. Everyone had their favourite; even the cat had his own – a small red tartan one. Keeping an eye out for those travel rugs at op-shops and markets, collectable stores and bazaars, led to noticing vintage blankets. I'd never really thought about them before or paid much attention though of course I had grown up with them at my grandmother's. When I discovered my first Laconia cream blanket with blue stripes, my eyes just went gaga. Well that was it, I was hooked and since then over 500 blankets have passed through my hands. These common, everyday items, found in all households for so many decades, were traditional engagement gifts. Pairs were prized wedding presents turning into family heirlooms. They were fashionable dressers of beds, givers of warmth, bestowers of security and reliability. The comfort found in these objects resonates with almost all of us; we grew up with them ourselves or fondly recall them in a grandparent’s home. There is no modern replacement with the integrity of these old blankets, many of them now older than most of us. They are romantic, sensible, special, familiar, nostalgic and nothing else feels so appropriate in so many situations. No offense to the great Aussie doona, but from hippie to hipster, at a music festival, picnic, campsite or couch, a vintage blanket is something coveted by all. This industry that employed tens of thousands and must have been such a huge contributor to the economy is almost completely lost now. Blanket Fever is an ode to everything that came before: the land, the sheep, the shearers, the hands, the mills, the weavers, the designers, the distributors, the department stores. To the grandparents that gave them, the people that received them, the families that kept them; thank you. I’m passionate about my collection of Australian blankets manufactured in mostly Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania from the 1930s to the end of the 1960s. The collection has blankets from each of these four decades representing the styles and fashions of their time and includes dated advertisements which help determine the eras the blankets are from. Physician - years-of-bliss blankets - (woman on telephone in bed under red blanket)Physician - years-of-bliss blankets - just feel the difference!/Wonderfully warm, without weight…soft and fluffy after countless washings…made from the most luxurious wool in the world….and guaranteed for 20 years/Physician/Luxurious Woollen Blanketsblanket, blanket fever, wool, physician, collins bros, geelong, advertisement, australian women's weekly -
Glenelg Shire Council Cultural Collection
Souvenir - Theatre Ticket - Heywood Theatre Group, n.d
Vanda Savill, Bower Bird Museum, Heywood 'Dear Friends' servesTheatre ticket, lime green light cardboard, black print and image of telephone.Front: 'Heywood Theatre Group Presents THE BELLS ARE RINGING Adults $6.00 FRD. JULY 20th Pen/Stud $3.00 8pm HEYWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE ROW B' -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Aunde Album 29, Design Planning, 2002
Aunde / Norwellan Textiles North Western Woolen Mills became Norwellan Textiles then AUNDEColour landscape photo:Desks, Computor, telephone, Yarn, Second desk - sample designAUnde Australia Ltd. logoindustry, aunde -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - BENDIGO EASTER FAIR, 1964
Slide. Bendigo Easter Fair. The P.M.G. float. From telegraph to telephone theme.slide, bendigo, bendigo easter fair., bendigo easter fair. -
Kiewa Valley Historical Society
Folder - Clare Roper No. 9, Items Donated
Clare Roper was a resident of the Kiewa Valley and belonged to the Kiewa Valley Historical Society.Clare Roper collected and collated items of historical interest for the Kiewa Valley Historical Society.Dark blue plastic with clear front cover with 2 clear plastic sleeves containing 3 booklets 'How to Construct & Maintain Your Telephone Line' 'The Use & Care of the Telephone' 'The Dunlop Australian Open Lawn Tennis Championships'clare roper; scrap book -
Federation University Historical Collection
Object, Electric Bell
Electric bell used for a door or telephone. Bell has a backing of wood and the electrical components.electric bell, bell, doorbell, telephone bell -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Insulator, before 1985
Insulators used throughout state. These probably used in Rutherglen. Now (1985) phone lines being put undergroundTelephone cross pole insulator made of green glass, bell shaped with dome top.On green glass: "A.G."