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National Wool MuseumStencil - LENINGRAD CARBONISED
This stencil was used as a location stamp for the transportation of wool bales. Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg is a Russian port city on the Baltic Sea. Wool bales marked LENINGRAD would have been transported to Russia by sea.Wool bale export stencil - LENINGRAD CARBONISEDLENINGRAD CARBONISEDwool - transportation, wool sales, wool class, wool classers -
National Wool MuseumContainer - Display Case, Phoenix Wool Company Pty Ltd, 1950-1955
The Phoenix Wool Company was started in 1919 by Brigadier-General Robert Smith. The works were located on the Barwon River, near the end of Shannon Avenue; some remnants of the original buildings can still be seen at the site. Phoenix was one of the first to develop the wool carbonising process (the removal of vegetable matter from wool through the use of chemicals) and during its heyday in the 1930s-50s the company operated 24 hours per day and employed a workforce of over 100. The company closed in 1997. This box of carbonised wool samples may possibly have been used by a salesman promoting the activities of the company.Display case, brown cardboard printed with text in black on the lid at the top. Lined in blue. Interior divided into five sections, each containing samples of carbonised wool. There are five labels attached to the inside of the box lid.THE PHOENIX WOOL COMPANY / PTY. LTD. / WOOL CARBONISERS / GEELONG / VICTORIA / AUSTRALIA / TELEPHONE: 2241, GEELONG / CABLE AND TELEGRAPHIC ADRESS: / "PHOEWOOL" GEELONGphoenix wool company pty ltd, wool industry, wool carbonising, barwon river, geelong, company history, brigadier-general robert smith -
National Wool MuseumBook, Finishing Machinery
... Carbonising ..."Finishing Machinery" - James Bailey, Textile Machine Maker, Huddersfield, c. 1926. Catalogue of machinery for fulling, scouring, carbonising, dyeing and finishing woollen and worsted and other types of textiles.Catalogue of textile finishing machinery from James Bailey, textile machine maker, Huddersfield, c.1926.textile machinery textile finishing, james bailey, textile machine maker, milling, scouring, carbonising, dyeing, raising, textile machinery, textile finishing -
National Wool MuseumBook, I.C.S Reference Library No. 106
... Carbonising ..."I.C.S Reference Library no. 106: arithmetic, logarithms, mensuration, woollen and worsted yarn calculations, mechanical definitions, mechanical calculations, reading textile drawings, wool, wool washing, wool drying, burring and carbonising, wool oils and oiling" International Correspondence Schools Ltd, 1923.textile production wool processing, international correspondence schools ltd, cloth - woollen, cloth - worsted, carbonising, burring, textile production, wool processing -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone and fossil fern with wood fragments
8317.1 - Overall rectangular mudstone containing fragments of fossilised wood and carbonised plant matter. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumConcrestion with fossils
8314.1 - Irregularly shaped stone containing large concretion and numerous carbonised plant fossils. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumLarge mudstone with plant fossils
8333.1 - Large and irregularly shaped piece of mudstone showing large pieces of carbonised woody matter. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone with plant fossils
8330.1 - Irregularly shaped mudstone showing prominent carbonised plant fragments, and on one face a large partial woody or leaf structure. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone with large woody fragments
8329.1 - Irregular-but-angular mudstone displaying large and prominent carbonised woody fragment , including two that seem to be pieces of one stem. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone with plant fossils
8340.1 - Grey, triangular, mid-large, thin mudstone contains carbonised plant fossils, most prominently a small, partial, but well preserved frond. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone with leaves
8352.1 - Irregularly-shaped mudstone with some waved faces, displaying partial leaf fossils, prominently a nearly-totally carbonised taeniopteris leaf on one face. -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone with fossils and secondary minsral
8343.1 - Irregularly shaped grey mudstone containing some carbonised plant fragments, but most prominently (most likely) secondary iron mineralisation pseudo fossils -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumMudstone containing woody matter
8339.1 - Large, though thin almost rectangular mudstone containing numerous small fragments of carbonised plant matter (one large piece in particular) and some fossil leaves. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.Newspaper - CASTLEMAINE GAS COMPANY COLLECTION: NEWSLETTER
Newsletter article ''Our Men at Bendigo works'' These are the men who at Bendigo have operated Victoria's last remaining coal gas carbonising works. The works closed on 8th October.newspaper, bendigo, gas and fuel newsletter -
Coal Creek Community Park & MuseumCloven pseudofossil
Formed by sedimentary processes. 8312.1 - Rock split in half lengthways, revealing in both kidney-shaped halves a sedimentary concretion, itself split into un equal halves via cross-sectional fractures. The larger concretion fragment reveals a small carbonised plant fossil. -
National Wool Museum
Book, Wool
... Carbonising ..."Wool from the raw material to the finished product" 6th ed. reprinted - S. Kershaw, 1947wool growing wool processing wool - characteristics, fellmongery, carbonising, wool growing, wool processing, wool - characteristics -
National Wool MuseumCalendar
... Carbonising ...Acquired when "Classweave Industries" closed down.With Compliments from/ G H Michell and Sons Limited,/ Wool Merchants/world war ii woollen mills wool processing, federal woollen mills ltd classweave industries pty ltd commonwealth woollen mills g.h. michell and sons (aust.) pty ltd, carbonising, scouring, world war ii, woollen mills, wool processing -
National Wool Museum
Book, An examination of proposals to expand scouring and combing of wool in Australia, 1974
... Carbonising ..."An examination of proposals to expand scouring and combing of wool in Australia" -Ms Jenny Dickson, Australian Wool Corporation, 1974wool processing woollen mills textile industry - pollution trade - international, australian wool corporation, carbonising, combing, scouring, wool processing, woollen mills, textile industry - pollution, trade - international -
National Wool Museum
Book, Sheep and wool: grade 2
... Carbonising ..."Sheep and wool: grade 2. 1st ed, 1956" - J Page Sharp and T B Harmsworth, Royal Melbourne Technical College Press, Technical Publication No 41shearing shearing sheds sheep stations - management woolclassing wool processing, fellmongery, carbonising, scouring, shearing, shearing sheds, sheep stations - management, woolclassing, wool processing -
National Wool Museum
Book, Proceedings: 5th International Wool Textile Research Conference vol. IV, 1975
... Carbonising ..."Proceedings: 5th International Wool Textile Research Conference, vol. IV" Sept. 1975.wool - chemistry weaving yarn production, deutsches wollforschungsinstitut an der technischen hochschule aachen e.v., scouring, carbonising, carding, combing, wool - chemistry, weaving, yarn production -
National Wool Museum
Book, Wool industry information: report no 3
... Carbonising ..."Wool industry information: report no 3"- M V Frew, Victorian Govt, Dept of Agriculture, Sheep Industry Branch, May 1975wool - research agriculture wool marketing wool brokering wool sales - floor price scheme agriculture - education shearing, australian wool corporation, wool clip preparation, carbonising, wool - research, agriculture, wool marketing, wool brokering, wool sales - floor price scheme, agriculture - education, shearing -
National Wool Museum
Book, Woolclassing
... Carbonising ...Notes compiled by Ken Galloway, Contains information on wool growing, sheep breeds. especially little known breeds, wool classing, wool processing etc.K Gallowaywool growing woolclassing sheep breeding merino sheep corriedale sheep lincoln sheep border leicester sheep cheviot sheep dorset horn sheep sheep breeding romney marsh sheep southdown sheep shropshire sheep polwarth sheep wool processing, carbonising, galloway, mr ken, wool growing, woolclassing, sheep breeding, merino sheep, corriedale sheep, lincoln sheep, border leicester sheep, cheviot sheep, dorset horn sheep, romney marsh sheep, southdown sheep, shropshire sheep, polwarth sheep, wool processing
