Slim recipe book and manual for a Sunbeam' Gourmet Complete Frypan'. Colour photographed cover - 40 pages - centre stapled with metal staples.'Recipe and Instruction Book Sunbeam Gourmet / The Complete Frypan'books, cookery

Loose pages from a book on torchon lace and the torchon lace loom with illustrations on loom and lace patterns.handcrafts, lacemaking, books, technical

created by the British Thomson-Houston during the interwar years. The manual relates to magnetos they produce for aircraft engines.aircraft magnetos, british thomson-houston

The donor's father (William Clarence Christopher) was born in 1906 in Williamson Street, Bendigo and was schooled at the Bendigo School of Mines. The notebook on theoretical Carpentry must date from around 1920 when he was an apprentice. His brother James Charles Christopher was a teacher, the Solid Geometry drawings date from 1925-1932 and were submitted by students at Ballarat Junior Technical school. The book od building regulations was used by William Clarence in the 1940's and 50's while employed as a building foreman at Braybrook by Industrial Engineering Ltd.The manuals are covered with brown paper and the title in red or black texter on the front. The theory Carpentry is handwritten, the three Solid Geometry are made up of individual drawings and the Uniform Building Regulations is printed.technical books, school of mines