From Aussie Velos: Alfred George Healing was born in 1868 in the suburb of Richmond, Melbourne (VIC). Starting in the cycle industry as a cycle builder and repairer in 1898, he obtained the Victorian agency for the English “Haddon” bicycle located on Bridge Road, Richmond. With many years behind him in the bicycle industry in 1907 he opened a small shop from borrowing £50 from his sister and began operating as A.G Healing. Importing bicycle parts Healing was quickly gaining a reputation for his quality and service among the cycling community, with steady business growth, Healing stumbled across an error that had been made in a recent order which resulted in twice the number of bicycle parts received. With no finances to pay for them, Healing decided to cycle around Victoria selling these parts to make the money he needed to fix up the order. As Healing travelled across Victoria he found that there was such a large market place for cycling gear that the order was soon fixed. It became apparent that Healing needed to open cycle shops in various locations. By 1912 Healing decided to open up his own proprietary company in Niagara Lane, Melbourne (VIC), the company was surging with enthusiastic cyclists and commuters and other branches began to spread all over state of Victoria. In 1921 Healing’s son Keith joined the firm and became an apprentice bicycle maker and Healing cycles grew more popular and at peak production 25,000 bicycles were made per year. Shops under the name of Healing were now operating across Australia. The business was now transferred to another location of Melbourne House, Post-office place (MELB). In 1926 Duncan and Co. wholesale and retail distributors of automotive parts was absorbed and was occupied in a larger building in Franklin Street (MELB) to maintain the warehouse operations. A.G Healing was now a public company. By 1933 the firm also began to specialize in importing radios and later began to make their own. One of the many Champions who rode on a Healing cycle was W.K “Bill” Moritz. His achievements included winning all major events in Australia and New Zealand during the years of 1936-37 path racing season. In 1936 Healing released a lightweight cycle that would rule in their supreme line-up, built from the lightest possible materials, the frame and forks were chrome plated, stripped for racing weighed exactly 16 1/2 lbs. It was fitted with special “Osgear” three-speed gear and built specially built for D. Byrant. By 1937, Healing cycles were being ridden by many, at the exhibition board track Jack Molloy won the Victorian ten-mile amateur championship, Bill Moritz captured the five mile professional, and Tassle Johnson the five-mile amateur scratch race. These wins brought up the total championships won in one week by Healing cycles to six.A hire agreement (hire purchase) between H.L. Vivian and R&G Finances Pty Ltd, for a Healing 'A' bicycle, with Eadie Coaster Hub brake.

Fourth editionsales: conditional -- new south wales

Previous owners: T. H. Smith, T. W. SmithSecond edition Legislation includedconditional sales, conditional sales -- australia

Previous owner: T. H. SmithFifth editionISBN: 0851200052conditional sales -- great britain

Previous owner: T. H. Smithconditional sales -- great britain -- cases

Isaac Singer who founded the Singer Sewing Machine Company in 1850 did not invent the sewing machine but did design and patent excellent modifications to the accepted design. His business model made the company such a success. He launched the first popular installment payment plan for his machines. This made sewing machines affordable to the average person. Before this, only factories and companies owned sewing machines. Sarah McLean acquired a Singer Sewing Machine in 1917 from a Singer distribution shop in Prahran on a hire purchase installment plan. This enabled her, like many housewives of the time, to more efficiently make and repair her family's clothes using a pedal machine rather than relying on laborious hand-sewing.The hire purchase booklet is a handy explainer of how Sarah (and many other women) was able to acquire her own sewing machine.Booklet donated to the Museum by one of Sarah McLean's grand-daughters, Judith Challis, so that it could be displayed alongside the sewing machine which had been previously donated by another grand-daughter, Kristy Waring.The Singer Sewing Machine enjoyed well-deserved popularity in ordinary households across the country.Treadle-operated Singer sewing machineInscriptions on Sewing Machine On top: 'The Singer Manufacturing Co.' Front: brass plate - '15K28; oval brass plate - THE SINGER MANFC.CO' Base: 'F7351589' Inscription on front of booklet: '7655L/Mrs Sarah McLean/Emerald'singer sewing machines, emerald, victoria, australia, hire purchase, sarah mclean, 1917, robert mclean

non-fictionGuide to aviation industry throughout Australia & Papua New Guineaaerodromes & airfields, aero clubs & flying schools, approved firms, fleet air arm, aircraft leasing & hire purchase companies, airline operators, aircraft production, aircraft register, aerial work operators, charter operators, ground training colleges, history of australian aviation, insurance companies/brokers, raaf, radio navigation aids

The Mathews family have been in continuous ownership of 395 Howe Parade (was 8 Howe Parade until 1964 when addresses re-assigned), Port Melbourne from 1938 to the present (Sept 2019)Six folders of assorted documents relating to the life of Alan Mathews and his family. Details of insurances and purchases Small leaflet "You and Hire Purchase"domestic life, alan mathews, j e mathews

The Mathews family have been in continuous ownership of 395 Howe Parade (was 8 Howe Parade until 1964 when addresses re-assigned), Port Melbourne from 1938 to the present (Sept 2019)Six folders of assorted documents relating to the life of Alan Mathews and his family. Details of insurances and purchases Copy of Hire Purchase Agreements Act 1936domestic life, alan mathews, j e mathews

Wendy LOWENSTEIN donated these in 1998 to the Society after storing them since the early 1980s. They were typed by a hired transcriber, for excepting and editing to into 'Under the Hook - Melbourne Waterside Workers Remember 1900-1980'. Subsequently the Australian National Library requested these transcripts, and it is (in 2000) Wendy's intention to make them copies. They have purchased the tapes from which these were transcribed; originally Wendy offered to donate the tapes to this Society.Bundle of typed transcripts of tapes from wharfies, recorded by Wendy LOWENSTEIN and Tom HILLS 1979 to 1980 when writing 'Under the Hook'. On large computer sheets, loosely tied with cotton cord. Dot-matrix printout.piers and wharves - waterside workers, arts and entertainment - literature, oral history, wendy lowenstein, lou albress, jack baker, hall briggs, arthur bueno, manny callejo, mick fisher, sol green, tom hills, alf greenwood, bert king, tippo hayes