After the 1939 bushfires, the Forests Commission Victoria invested heavily in a radically new communications network. After suffering some inevitable delays due to the war, radio VL3AA switched into full operation in October 1945 proudly beaming out 200 watts across the State. But by today’s standards, the technology was primitive and the reception poor unless the user was on a high point somewhere. The radio signal was "line-of-sight" and bounced between fire towers and relay transmitters across the mountains back to the District offices. The advent of solid-state electronics in the 1960s replaced the more delicate valve sets which enabled greater use of vehicle mounted radios. The Commission continued to research, develop and build new radios at its many workshops around Victoria. The network was supported by a large team of skilled radio technicians. The more secure and versatile State Mobile Radio (SMR) digital trunk system came into operation in about 1995. Upgraded Tait Radios were purchased in 2014 after recommendations of the 2009 Bushfires Royal Commission. But it was the convergence of separate technologies such as 5G mobile phones, high-capacity and light-weight lithium batteries, Wi-Fi, the ever-expanding internet, cloud data storage, digital cameras, GPS, personal organisers and hundreds of supporting Apps into powerful smartphones and tablets which revolutionised bushfire communications from the mid-2000s. State Disaster Plan (DISPLAN) radio in metal carry casebushfire, radios, forests commission victoria (fcv)

Map: Parish of Ravenswood, Counties of Bendigo and Talbot. Parish planmap, bendigo, parish plan, ravenswood, county of talbot

Map: Township of Walmer, 2 hand Draughted Parish plansmap, township, walmer

Map: Parish of Ravenswood, Counties of Bendigo and Talbot. Parish planmap, bendigo, parish plan, ravenswood, county of talbot, county of bendigo

Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works plan for 184 Dow Street.mmbw, engineering - melbourne metropolitan board of works, dow street

A4 LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout dated 2010Map includes Derwent Street and Warrandyte Road, Ringwood. Although marked See Sheet 2, no other page included with collection.

Paperback; 104 p. : ill., plans, ports. , ; 21 cm.ISBN 0949905437 : 0731671805 (Research Primary School)research (vic.), research primary school, schools, state school no. 2959, centenary celebrations

Black and white photo of East Burwood Pre-School Planeast burwood preschool, plans

Twelve page land sale brochure promoting Heathmont and Ringwood area including photographs, subdivision features and local facilities. Subdivision plan includes Heathmont Road, Balfour Avenue, Edith Street, Edna Street, and Great Ryrie Street.

Longitudinal, traverse, side and back elevation drawings for original Town Hall, Sandridge 1869 (No. 2) William Ireland:Witness Henry Bates:Reverse side: Plans of Town Hall, old and new. June 19th (pencil drawing)port melbourne town hall, built environment - civic, sandridge town hall

Report - blue Rexene cloth heavy card covers, dark blue glued end sheets, fully sewn bound, with some 9 sections, with many sheets folded and appropriate paper spacing allowed for in the binding. Report titled "MMTB The ALL-ELECTRIC TRAMCAR" with MMTB logo in gold block on front cover and on the side of the report. About 150 pages. Report prepared by Frank R. Kirby Chief Engineer, December 1961. Has a table of Contents, Appendices, figures, tables and photographs. Report looks at the development of All Electric Tramcars in Europe and North America, the cost of maintenance of Melbourne's trams, operating costs, conductors, seated conductors, passenger handling, reliability, speeds, maintenance and capital costs.Has a lable on the first page, "Plan & EPA Library M0036918", Front cover stamped in red "Secretary's Files"trams, tramways, mmtb, pcc, germany, europe, all electric trams, prototype tramcar

Map on white paper that has yellowed. Black print Handwriting is black but faded. In wooden frame behind glass. Printed Survyor's plan for Echuca Township, date 5th March 1855, from the Surveyor General Office. Melbourne March 5th 1855 Plan drawn by P Chauncey. Hand written- This plan is now a Port for the South Australian Steamer Trade - when Hopwood settled here/ it was only a wild bush - he is now throwing a bridge/ at his own cost across this river 200yards wide. signed by Henry Hopwood. Typed on backing paper: Plan of the township of ECHUCA dated March 1855, One month before the first land sales / Autographed by Henry Hopwood in Oct 1955.

35mm colour positive transparency blue Agfacolour Service plastic mountE11, N1069, Stogryn, Sub 'prop',infrastructure, map, planning, subdivison lots

35mm colour positive transparency blue Agfacolour Service plastic mountE4, N0424, Stock subdivision, North Warrandyte, 4 August 1969infrastructure, map, planning, subdivison lots

This is a book made by Army School of Transport. The cover is a thin cardboard, coloured brown. Printing is in black ink. In the centre is a form of shield. On top is a banner with words "Army School of. At the bottom is the word "Transport". It has approx 44 pages of black and white photos and specifications of equipment. i.e. Aircraft, Trucks, APC road rovers, Trailers, Tractors, Graders, Water Craft etc.passchendaele barracks trust, transport, planning, equipment specs

Newspaper cutting showing map of the No 1 Sewerage Area City of Bendigo. 1921bendigo, planning, sewerage, bendigo sewerage

Transport - produced by Melbourne's Metropolitan Transportation Committee. 4 page brochure describing Melbourne's transport survey - "Blue-print for the Future".trams, tramways, reports, planning

Drawn on waxed paper. On top of plan 'Elevation of Door' printed in black ink, on bottom 'Scale an inch to a foot'. Plan shows double doors, arched window above. Contained in items from Fortuna Villa, although not marked as such. On bottom of plan purple ink stamp 'Vahland & Getzschmann, Architects, Sandhurst'.Vahland & Getzschmann, Architects, Sandhurst.bendigo, house, fortuna villa

A photocopy of a hand drawn coloured plan of Bendigo East State School No. 3893 dated 24th April 1915 showing various elevations and sections. Written on the plan are the names Joseph William Fairbanks (building contactor) and J. Hudspeth. The sum of 1097 pounds is also written on the plans. Gemma Starr Collectionbendigo east state school, bendigo schools, gemma starr collection, 1915 bendigo east state school, school plan, joseph william fairbanks

This booklet was published on the recommendation of the Commonwealth government as part of a plan to offer protection to the people in the event of air strikes. Local councils and individuals were called to help to protect themselves in taking precautions,. The booklet itself sets out action to be taken in the event of an air raid happening, lighting restrictions fire prevention, refuge rooms and garden shelters and risks from air raids. It contains the relevant siren signals which denote different types of events and explains in detail various aspects of preparing for possible attack. There was discussion about issues such as evacuation of children should such an event occur with the focus primarily on the larger centres such as Geelong and Melbourne. From 1942 the number of air attacks increased mainly from Japan on the northern and western parts of Australia including over 60 on Darwin. Attacks continued into 1943 and it wasn’t until later in that year that the Prime Minister, John Curtin announced that the threat of invasion had passed.While the link to Warrnambool’s history is tenuous, it was a government publication to all persons in the state of Victoria in 1941.This item relates to a significant period in Australia’s history. All Australians were affected by the war. It has historical and scientific or research interest as it gives a number of diagrams and possible plans and the effectiveness of same. Olive green soft card cover with black text. 36 pages, with 2 extra pages depicting plans for shelters pasted inside back cover. Victorian coat of arms at top of cover.April 1941. H. E. Daw, Government printer. Forward by Sir John Harris KBE MLC Minister of Public Instruction and Public Healthhistory of warrnambool, air raid precautions 1941

Bound Manual describing evacuation and emergency procedures. Includes Action Plan, Staff members, Instructions, Types of Threats and school building plan. Similar content (but later version) to VC 11626