Item relates to George William Alfred MARRIOTT RAAF. Refer Cat No 3117 for his service history.Royal Australian Air Force. Blue buckram hard covered book, black printing, not illustrated, approx 150 pages.Hand written on bottom centre cover: "G Marriott" Inside cover: "ACI Marriott 1750 W/T Operator Mechanic" Rear: "Units served in - No 1 FTS, Signal School Lav. No 2 Sqn, No 1 A/C Depot" Aircraft flown - "Avro Trainer, Demon, Anson, Wapiti"military history - records / air force, log book

Comprehensive Operation Report containing all aspects of OP Aright 88 in the Gulf of Carpentaria region of Queensland. Chapters include: General Information, Operations, Operational Support, Admin and Logistics, Communications, Conclusion and Recommendations. There are four Annexes, Area of Operations, Technical Summary, Nominal Roll, Det 1 Fd Svy Sqn and Air Support Contact Details.Unbound A4 Paper Report held together by a staple top LH corner. Typed pages and diagrams. 6364.1 is copy number 11, 6364.2 is copy number 12 6364.1 is copy number 11, "FOR AIR SURVEY RECORDS" "Tech WO", "Aero Trig", "ADJ", "SGT REES for Records" 6364.2 is copy number 12 "Placed on File and circulated", "Circular Received 15 Feb 1989" on back page. royal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr

This is an important record detailing the Military Survey Situation in Australia before and after WWII. Because of its importance, the entire five page document has been reproduced. The document is written in four parts: Part 1 Situation at the start of War and Survey Troops available. Part 2 Reorganisation of Australian Survey Corps, Liaison with American Forces, Training and Equipment. Part 3 Map Situation at 31 August 1945, Maps published by Australian Units, Distribution of Maps, Map Records and Air Photos. Part 4 New Guinea and Borneo Campaigns, Formations and Survey Units Under Command. 5 x A4 photocopied pages of typed text, stapled top LH corner. Pages are numbered 87 to 91. The entire document has been reproduced.royal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr

This telegram was sent from the Royal Netherlands Airways, Sydney, to the manager of ABC Radio Station 2CO, Corowa, New South Wales. This telegram relates to the 1934 London to Melbourne Air Race. The telegram records the Royal Netherlands Airways' thanks to ABC Radio 2CO radio staff for their efforts in broadcasting an emergency message to the residents of Albury after the Dutch airliner ‘Uiver’ became lost at night in bad weather. As requested local radio listeners drove their cars to the Albury racecourse and illuminated an emergency landing ground using their vehicle headlights. This allowed the lost airliner to land safely.This item relates to the London to Melbourne Air Race of 1934, a significant event that shaped Australia's history as it proved travelling to and from Australia could be done within a reasonable time by air, thereby making the country less isolated. Up to that time Australia was three weeks away from Europe by steam ship. The Air Race was dreamt up by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Harold Smith, to commemorate the centenary of Victoria's statehood and was sponsored by the Melbourne chocolate manufacturer Sir MacPherson Robertson. The Royal Netherlands Airways entered a Douglas DC2 plane 'Uiver' - the largest aircraft in the race, and the only one to carry passengers as well as crew, to show that a commercial passenger service to Australia was possible. But in the last leg of the race, the Uiver lost its way in an electrical storm over the Riverina town of Albury. Several communication methods were used to land the plane safely, including the signalling of the word "Albury" in Morse code using the town's street lights. Local ABC Radio station 2CO also made a call for locals to light up a makeshift landing strip for the plane at the town's racecourse. The plane landed safely and the next morning with the help of the townspeople who pulled it out of the mud, took off and finished the race in second place. The story of the Uiver points to the importance of communication in its various forms: two-way and broadcast radio, Morse, and light signals. The survival of the Uiver is a reflection of the ingenuity of Australian communications and the solutions that can be found through the sharing of ideas of information. The landing of the Uiver was an important moment in Albury's social history, as residents participated in the rescue of the plane and its passengers, helping the Uiver to continue on its journey and finish second in the Race. When the Uiver crashed in the Syrian Desert in December 1934, Albury residents contributed to a memorial which honoured those who were killed. Beige paper telegram printed with black ink and overwritten with typewriter. Telegram split into sections designating details of the telegram, details of the recipient and a space for the transmitted message. A small section of paper is missing from bottom left corner."Extend to you my warmest appreciation for your most valuable / assistance rendered to Netherlands machine by continuously keeping your / wireless organisation available during a period of extremely difficult / air navigation stop I assure you that in Holland and in Java your action / is most deeply appreciated Bakker chief representative in Australia for / Royal Netherlands airways. / 6 18pm"telegrams, telegraphic messages, communications, radio, uiver, royal netherlands airways, albury, london to melbourne air race, morse code

A flare, also sometimes called a fusee, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a bright light or intense heat without an explosion. Flares are used for distress signalling, illumination, communication or defensive countermeasures in civilian and military applications. Flares may be ground pyrotechnics, projectile pyrotechnics, or parachute-suspended to provide maximum illumination time over a large area. Projectile pyrotechnics may be dropped from aircraft, fired from rocket or artillery, or deployed by flare guns or hand held percussive tubes. Signalling flares have been in use by all branches of the military services since the 1920s also by the maritime services to signal other ships or for distress purposes. The earliest recorded use of gunpowder for signalling purposes was the 'signal bomb' used by the Chinese Song Dynasty as the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty besieged Yangzhou in 1276. These soft-shelled bombs, timed to explode in mid-air, were used to send messages to a detachment of troops far in the distance. Another mention of the signal bomb appears in a text dating from 1293 requesting their collection from those still stored in Zhejiang. A signal gun appears in Korea by 1600. The (Wu I Thu Phu Thung Chih or Illustrated Military Encyclopedia) written in 1791 depicts a signal gun in an illustration. The item was used to carry and store flares for signalling use as the inscription on the canvas cover suggests. Given the method of storing flares is in a wicker basket that is non conducting of an electrical charge that may accidentally set of explosive materials. The writer assumes the basket was used from the early 20th century and most likely by maritime or military services to store it's flares.Basket cane square with metal locks & rope handles each end. Canvas reinforced on vertical sides with a canvas cover on top. Canvas cover has leather straps. Stencilled on canvas in white paint "SIGNALLING STORES" flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, basket, cane basket, signalling stores

A barometer is an instrument used for measuring atmosphere pressure thus determining weather changes.The first apparatus generally accepted as a barometer was that set up in Florence in 1644 by Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), a mathematician and physicist. Torricelli filled a glass tube with mercury, sealed it at one end, and inverted it with its open end in a dish of mercury. The level always fell a short way down the tube, then settled at a height of about thirty inches. He concluded correctly that the mercury column was sustained by the weight of the air pressing on the open surface of mercury, and further experiments convinced him that the space above the mercury in the tube was a vacuum. He noted that the level rose and fell with changing temperature, but he was unable to use his apparatus to measure variations in the weight of the atmosphere because he had not foreseen that temperature would affect the level of the mercury. News of this experiment circulated quickly among European scientists, who hastened to replicate the experiment. Torricelli's conclusions were not universally accepted because some disputed whether the air had weight, while both Aristotle and the Catholic Church denied the possibility of a vacuum. In France, the philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) seems to have been the first person, probably in 1647, to attach a graduated scale to the tube so that he could record any changes attributable to the weather. At around this time Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany organized the first short-lived meteorological network among scientists in other Italian cities, gathering observations of pressure, temperature, humidity, wind direction, and state of the sky.Theis barometer is an example of a household item from the early 20th century, used to determine the day's weather. The barometer is significant as an aid to human social, material and scientific development.Barometer, round, brass housing inset into carved wooden casing (lacquer mostly worn off). Decorative lettering for weather conditions "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair, Very Dry". Workings are visible through opening in centre of dial. Indicator needle and another adjustable needle . Hook screwed into back of case.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, barometer, scientific instrument, weather forcasting instrument, weather gauge

flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, warrnambool lighthouse register of meteorological observations 1902 Jan, meteorological observations, book, Warrnambool Lighthouse, Meteorological ObservationWarrnambool Lighthouse Register of Meteorological Observations 1902 Jan Handwritten entries in columns of Air Pressure, Temperature, Wind Velocity and Direction, Cloud, Rain and Remarks, Signed D Lindsayflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, meteorological observations, book, warrnambool lighthouse, meteorological observation, warrnambool lighthouse register of meteorological observations 1902 jan

Register of Meteorological Observations at Warrnambool Lighthouse for the following months. mber 1905. 1902 - all months, 1903 - Jan, Feb, April, May, June, July, Aug, Oct, Nov, Dec, Mar, 1905 - Jan. Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec, 1906- Jan, Feb, Mar, May, Jun, July, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, 1907 - all months.Register, marble pattern cover on March and Septe. Warrnambool Lighthouse Register of Meteorological Observations, 1902 Apr Recorded information of meteorological events at the Warrnambool Lighthouse, giving details of Air Pressure, Temperature, Wind Velocity and Direction, Cloud, Rain and RemarksHandwritten entriesflagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, warrnambool lighthouse register of meteorological observations 1902 apr, meteorological observations, book, warrnambool lighthouse, meteorological observation

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.The vehicle climbed and returned down the hills north of Kubis Drive at the intersection to Pamela Court in August 1976

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.The entrance to the barrel drain under Kubis Drive before the roads were constructed. This was opposite, or just up the gully, to Pamela Court in August 1976.

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.Looking west down Manuelo Terrace from the corner of Rudolf Court, with Werac Drice on left of centre

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.The girls are riding up Werac Drive. Jenkins Close is showing right centre

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.Kubis Drive is ascending just right of and above centre. Looking south-west from the hill above the Debbie Place corner.

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.View of the southern end of the creek, above the site of Loughnan's Lake, which existed from 1911 to 1970

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.Showing a manhole in the middle of the road

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.Showing trees on the north side of the gully and unused telephone pit in angle of roads

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.Hillside north of Kubis Drive

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.Group on hilltop over Kubis Drive, Kevin Coll, Tony Clarke, Stephen Clarke, Peter Clarke, Gladys McInerey (nee Clarke), Jennie Clarke

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.Looking north from the top of Kubis Drive off Werac Drive

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.With Stephen and Peter Clarke

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates. The tracks in the foreground are work tracks

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.

Part of a 101-photo record of the development of the "Bel Air" Estate, Ringwood North, including road works to Debbie Place, Kubis Drive, Jenkins Close, Burlock Avenue, Pamela Court, Manuelo Terrace, Lyn Court, Rudolf Court, Werac Drive, Iluka Place and Glenvale Road. From the Jack Lundy Clarke collection (39 Burlock Avenue, North Ringwood) of photos taken from 1976 to 1982. The developer, Mr Kubis, named streets after his family and associates.