This decimal currency converter was produced about 1966 when the Australian currency was changed from the imperial system to the decimal system. It has been used by a Warrnambool businessman, Alan Lane to promote one of his businesses, Lane’s Motors and would have been given to business clients. Alan Lane (d.1995) was prominent in Warrnambool as a businessman man, community leader and philanthropist. His businesses included a bus company, a taxi company and a travel agency. His community services included involvement in the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Rotary Club, the local Football League, the Warrnambool Art Gallery, the Performing Arts Centre, the Warrnambool Chamber of Commerce and the Warrnambool Council. The A.L. Lane Foundation was established with funds from his estate and continues to assist local projects and charitable causes. This item is of interest as a memento of the time when the Australian currency was converted to the decimal system and as a memento of the prominent Warrnambool community worker, Alan Lane. This is a card consisting of four circles of paper of different sizes joined in the centre with a metal clip. The smallest central piece of paper has advertising material and the other three pieces have red and black numbers, some of decimal currency notations and some of imperial currency notationsDecimal Currency Computer Instructions for Use See Back Lane’s Motors alan l. lane, warrnambool, a.l. lane foundation

Conversion of Australian currency from pounds/shilling/pence to dollars/cents. on 14 February 1966.Circular paper computer used by hand to convert pounds/shilling/pence to dollars/cents, or the reverse calculation. Printed in 1965/64 for the conversion of Australian currency which was affected on 14 February 1966. Printed in red and black on four circular plains. Printed by Earles Printing Pty Ltd for Ultra Publicity Pty Ltd, 104 Wellington parade, East Melbournebendigo, decimal converter

Plastic key ring showing conversions from £ to $ - Pounds to Dollars. By moving key ring back and forth the different amounts show as listed under inscriptions.Back: With compliments JOHN EDWARD'S CALTEX SERVICE STATION. 902-912 MT ALEXANDER RD. ESSENDON. Phone: 37-3203. Converts £5,... £1,...10sh,...5sh,...2sh,...1sh,...6d,...2½d,...1d. To:..........$10,...$2,...$1,......50c,...20c,...10c,...5c,...2c,.......1c decimal currency converter, advertising, john edward, caltex service station, essendon

Presumably made around the time that Australia switched from Imperial to Decimal Currency in 1966 to aid the householder make quick conversions.Pair of transfer printed glasses with decimal currency converters printed on them.decimal currency - australia, glasses, currency converters