The Watters family moved from Albert Park to Garden City Port Melbourne circa 1934 buying a Bank House at 128 Williamstown Road (later renumbered to 400). The family consisted of Bob Watters senior and his wife Ellen (nee Oakley), children Patsy (b 1920), Bob Junior (b 1922) and Norma (b1924). The children attended Albert Park Primary, Middle Park Central School and then MacRobertson Girls High School and Melbourne Boys High School.Robert (Bob) Cornelius Watters at controls of radio at home c 1937bob watters junior, robert cornelius watters

Photo of tram transport or transfer driver, Norm Cross, sitting at the controls of a tram with a radio in hand. Norm retired during 2006, see item 3774.Yields information about Norm Cross when he was a driver transferring trams between the workshops and the depots.Colour print on Kodak papertramways, driver, norm cross

Yields information about the driver's cabin of various Ballarat trams.Set of three colour slides - AGFA blue and white plastic mount and two Kodachrome white cardboard slides of views of the controls of a tram. .1 - single truck tram, with a rotary brake valve, handbrake and controller .2 - photo with B23D controller. .3 - single truck tram with handbrake, rotary brake valve and Pay as you Enter sign. Photo from the collection of Lilian Butler. ballarat, tramways, trams, controllers, brake valves, handbrakes, signs

Polaroid photographic portrait of three Massey Ferguson quality control staff members L2R E Jenkins Quality Control Mr Rex Livett Quality Control Manager Mr A Jackson Metalurgist Note also includes business cards of Livett and E Jenkinsmassey ferguson, sunshine harvester works

Used by Bettina Stevenson during the 1960s at 121 Lake Road, Blackburn.Steel frypan with Pyrex lid. Controls are on the handle of frypan. There are legs on each corner of the frypan. The lid is Pyrex with a square knob at the centre. The cord fits into the handleSunbeam Controlled Heat Frypandomestic items, cooking

Part of the radio equipment in B-24 Liberator aircraft.This is a good example as it is unused and in its original box.Black crackle-finish radio control boxRadio control box/signal corps US Army/s.n. 84472/made by Western Electric New York.radio, control, box, bc-450-a, western, electric

The first Sony Walkman was launched on 22 June 1979 in Tokyo. It was designed under the leadership of Akio Morita and was a modification of an earlier recorder used by journalists called the “Pressman”. The first cassette Walkman TPS-L2 was to forever change the way consumers listen to music." According to Akio Morita "This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day. They'll take it everywhere with them, and they won't care about record functions. If we put a playback-only headphone stereo like this on the market, it'll be a hit." Sony went on to sell approximately 220 million cassette-based Walkman units before ending production in 2010. This Sony Walkman model is a higher level portable cassette recorder and player featuring Mega Bass, auto-reverse, and an FM/AM radio. It was designed for recording from radio or microphone and was introduced to the market in 1988. This item is significant because the Walkman was widely used especially by young people from the 1980s onwards.A small portable combined radio and cassette player with recording facility. It includes ear buds and a portable plug in microphone. Black plastic cover and metal control buttons. Model name and control names are in a combimation of red, yellow, white and pale blue,SONY MEGA BASS RECORDING WALKMAN FM/AM plus labels on controlsmusical appliances, popular culture

Part of the estate of Sergeant Trevor J Nicholson, who served in Royal Australian Armoured Corps, C Squadron and B Squadron 1st Armoured Regiment, 1969-70, Vietnam.Wooden plaque with cream, red, gold, silver and grey insignia of Range Control Murray Bridge, depicting a Koala riding a rocket. Beneath that is an engraved metal edication.Range Control/ Murray Bridge/ WO2 Trevor Nicholson/ Range Control Murray Bridge/ from 22/1/87 to 12/1/90range control murray bridge, 4410261 wo2 trevor nicholson., plaque, nicholson, t nicholson, shield, trevor nicholson, 4410261

Photographic portrait of Massey Ferguson quality control staff Staff were of a diverse number of fields Back Row Unknown Unknown J Dennison Syd Engdahl Chemist Alec Galbraith David Keenan Charlie Smith Front Row Eddie Jenkins chief of staff Unknown Unknown Ingrid Stockal Metrologist Eric Neeson Managermassey ferguson, sunshine harvester works

This is a 6 valve portable transceiver, made in Australia from a British design. It was only used for C.W. (morse code). Its frequency was in the range of 2.5-3.5MHz. Output power 0.5-5 watts. Use was for commando and infantry patrols up to battalion level. It had an external battery pack for low and high voltage supply. 1 man operation in Tropics. An image of this type of wireless set in operation can be found in the AWM Collection: P02952.012 081815 Aluminium box, cover missing. The top has various dials, jacks and one gauge. There is a small length of cable coming from the control panel to a 4 pin plug. On the outside of case is the phrase D (arrow up)D 208 MKIIPlaque on control panel "WIRELESS SET - ZAA 2088 SERIAL NUMBER 168 DATE = 1944"wireless, wwii

Bob McClure at control of Biplane 1920Dad at the control. De Havilland Six 100 Horse Power. Easter 1920. at Stawell Racecoursestawell

The Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI) was originally invented by the grandfather of Australian bushfire science, Alan Grant McArthur of the CSIRO, during the 1950s and ‘60s. Alan lit fires under various weather conditions and calculated their rates of spread under a range of fuel moisture conditions. He published his landmark paper, “Controlled burning in eucalypt forests” in 1962. Leaflet No. 80, as it was known, proved a turning point for forest and fire managers across Australia. More importantly, Alan was very practical forester and wanted his work to be useful to people in the field, so after several iterations he came up with the now familiar circular slide rule called the Forest Fire Danger Meter (FFDM).  The Mk 4 version first appeared in operational use in 1967. Two Forests Commission staff, Athol Hodgson and Russ Ritchie, built on McArthur’s pioneering work and, by applying their own practical experience, developed a modified version in the late 1960s called the Control Burning Meter which was better suited to Victorian forest conditions. By entering local rainfall records, the fuel load on the area to be burnt, wind speed at 33 feet above ground level and weather bureau estimates of temperature and relative humidity, the meter is used to indicate flame height, and the associated scorch height, that could be expected from lighting a grid of fires at regular intervals on level terrain - an allowance for slope variation was also possible.Introduced to the FCV in 1970Control burning meterbushfire, forests commission victoria (fcv)

Originally, traffic lights were the responsibility of the local Council to install, operate and maintain. A Committee of Inquiry was set up by the State Government into energy conservation, and this forum was used to debate the question of traffic signal control. The Chairman of this Committee opening remarks stated that the Committee considers that there should be only one authority for Metropolitan Melbourne to control traffic signal operations. This led to objections from many local Councils. This letter from the City of Melbourne was an attempted to get these Councils to band together to fight the proposal. Ultimately the Country Road Board (Now Vicroads) took control of the installation, operation and maintenance of the traffic lights.Single authority to be assigned the responsibility to control the operations of traffic signals on a Statewide basis.

Concerns of residents living near the Eastern Freeway of Vicroad failure to meet noise control limits.Noise control limits complaints.freeways, eastern freeway, vicroads, watson, barry, marshall day carr, world health organisation, balfe, peter, roads and streets, city of whitehorse, city of manningham

A Control Joy Stick presented to Pilot Officer Eric V. Read in 1937 after it was recovered from an aircraft he was flying had crashed in the Brisbane Ranges in December 1936. Eric Read was a 21 year old RAAF pilot who was on a flight over the Bacchus Marsh region to make meteorological observations. Read's plane, a Bristol Bulldog biplane, came down in bad weather and crashed into a heavily wooded area of the Brisbane Ranges between Staughton Vale and Mount Wallace. An extensive air and ground search was conducted and after 32 hours Read was located, alive, but badly injured and unable to get out of the cockpit of the plane. He was first located from the air and then a rescue party was able to reach him through rough country and bring him to safety. Read recovered from his injuries and many years later gifted the control stick of the aircraft he had been flying as an item for the collection of the Bacchus Marsh and District Historical Society.This item is of local historical significance as an object related to a notable aircraft accident and subsequent rescue of the pilot. It is also significant for its rarity as a surviving piece of aviation equipment from this era.Control or Joy stick mounted on a wooden base.aircraft, aircraft accidents, eric v. read

The period when kerosene was extensively used for indoor lighting was before electrical reticulation was installed in rural areas. In remote areas this was up to the mid 1900's. The kerosene lantern however was still in use, for camping and outdoor activities, well beyond this period and was eventually replaced by LPG and battery powered lighting. The transition phase to "modern" outdoor and domestic lighting lingered on the rural areas where the electrical reticulation suffered from reliable constant supply.In the Kiewa Valley, being a rural region, had reliable electrical domestic and farm supply only after the Kiewa Hydro Electricity Scheme had been fully operational. The supply was relative to how close the homestead was to the major electricity substation. This kerosene lamp was in use during the period when it was the only reliable source of domestic night time lighting. The strength of refractive light produced by this lantern/lamp hinged upon the size of the lamp(wick and glass bowl). The small size of this lamp suggests that it was for use in a small room(children's bedroom) or as providing a light for a safe walk to the outside ablutions (toilet) area. This small kerosene lamp has an enclosed "cup" body which would have contained the kerosene fuel. The top wick holder, made from brass, has an extended enclosed spout which raises the wick approximately 20mm from the bottom of the holder. The wick holder screws into the the top of the kerosene reservoir bowl and has a wick adjustment screw (light control) at one side. The small white glass light reflector bulb nestles securely onto the wick holder and is kept snug by snap designed extending "fingers". The section between the bottom of the refractive glass "light" bowl and the top of the kerosene bowl has perforations to allow air passage to feed directly to the wick.The light refracting bulb is open at the top to allow heat and smoke from the burning wick to escape upwards.On the wick control screw "CWB BRITISH MADE"kerosene reading lamp, domestic lighting, bedside light

"Instruction Paper No.5279: Control of materials, 1st ed - Dexter S Kimball Jr, for International Correspondence Schools Ltd."Instruction Paper No.5279: Control of materials, 1st ed - Dexter S Kimball Jr, for International Correspondence Schools Ltd.textile industry - history textile mills - management textile industry - education, international correspondence schools ltd, textile industry - history, textile mills - management, textile industry - education

The cadastral map showing land under the control of the City of Brighton in 1962.map, plan, foreshores, sndringham, hampton, beaumaris, cheltenham, department of lands and survey, cartographic material, moorabbin, black rock, street map, city of sandringham, board of lands and works

With the advent of audio content available through i-phones and other small devices, the demand for a dedicated audio, easily portable player for the blind and vision impaired became louder and louder. Two organisations competed to deliver this and Canadian company Humanware developed the Victor Classic as a table top player that relied on discs. As CDs had been introduced into the library some years before, this allowed borrowers to have the advantages of 4 track cassettes within a digital medium. The Victor Reader Classic used simple features that made it easy for clients to navigate through a book or magazine. The player played both DAISY and music CDs. The function keys included controls for variable tone, volume, speed and creation of bookmarks, sleep time and you could navigate by chapter and page on DAISY books. A carry handle is included for ease of use.Grey square object with buttons for navigational controlsaudio equipment, assistive devices