Photo shows 5 men surrounding bulldozer. One is looking straight at camera, another is u;sing welding equipment.access routes, roads, access routes, mt william road

Blow lamps/ torches are a fuel-burning tool used for applying flame and heat to various applications, usually metalworking.Brass blow lamp with red wooden handle.blow torches, welding equipment

Yields information about depot activities of the BTPS constructing the curve across Wendouree Parade to depot junction Nov. 1974.Set of 5 AGFA blue and white plastic mount 35mm slides of the construction of the access track across Wendouree Parade - November 1974. .1 - track prior to concreting with welding equipment under the cover. .2 - track completed, but yet to have the asphalt applied. .3 - the curve from the access track side. .4 - access track looking west .5 - ditto looking east.Various notations by John as to the slide number and the trams in pencil and ink.tramways, trams, btps, depot junction, wendouree parade, track construction, depot

Articles in the annual report include: establishment of the Charter for the Eighties committee to develop on the role and direction for the organisation, decision to close Alexis Albert Hostel and move residents to Lighthouse Hostel Roselands or cottage style accommodation due to increasing repair costs, increased demand for field service (but not funding) and standard cassettes from the library, new Braille production unit shared with RIDBC, further bicycle order for Dubbo Zoo, large order for PVC sleeves justified new PVC welding equipment, Talking Book of the Year award and "Art in Touch" exhibition (both created to celebrate 100th birthday in 1980) will continue, and departure of Graeme Bradshaw, Jack Chamberlain and Mavis Threlfo.1 volume of text and imagesroyal blind society of new south wales, corporation records, paul cullen, sir garfield barwick, jim harris, graham laurence, mary guy, neville wran, bill byrne, phil o'neill, bill jolley, joan ledermann, robin wellington, derry macgillicuddy, louise long, eduardo gonzalez, keith martin, peter turner, jack chamberlain, c.l.d meares, neil anderson, j lederer, ita buttrose, don lane, gordon tibbles, aureo alonzo, marno parsons, chris d'albora, colin bond, lucky scallopini, michael thompson, kathy brooke, ron haddrick, john warnock, maureen duval

Ona page typewritten short history of the Ordnance factory plus a ten pages document with 1) General information: location, site details, prime purpose, major capabilities and staffing levels. 2) Production in 1980-81 and 3) Major equipment items and capacities: cranes, treatment facilities, machining capacity, N.C. machines, fabricating capacity, welding and other equipment, testing facilities.bendigo, business, ordnance factory

10934.30a - Notification of out-of-stock items. Receipt dated: 29 July 1954. pink cream, rectangular paper The receipt header reads "F.W. Milne & Son" in capital letters. Milne and Son were merchants and engineers. below the company name, it lists the company's: Address - Vine Street, Bendigo Contact Info - Phone 53 and 54 Handwritten in blue ink on a black typed template. For the purchase of leather belts. 10934.30b - Letter notification of altered discount. Receipt dated: 25th Sep 1953. large, cream, rectangular paper with a printed header in green and black ink. The receipt header reads "F.W. Milne & Son" in capital letters. Milne and Son were merchants and engineers. They sold Iron and steel, galvanised and steam piping and fittings, pumps, pulleys, transmission belting, bearings, shafting, air hoses, packings etc. below the company name, it lists the company's: Address - 52-60 Vine Street, Bendigo Contact Info - Phone 53, 54 and 1026 Typed blue ink on printed header. signed by the secretary in blue pen ink. 10934.30c and 10934.30d - business card Receipt dated: 1-2nd Sep 1954. tan - rectangular paper printed with business header in black ink. The Card reads: (10934.30c) F.W. Milne & Son. Merchants and Engineers. Vine Street, Bendigo. Distributors of: - Bearing Service Co. of Aust. PTY. and Stewarts & Lloyds PTY. LTD. Welding electrodes and welding equipment. Belting. Vee belts and Pulleys. Steel. Pipes and Pipe fittings. Steam valves and packings. British tube mills products. Electric motors. die cast and aluminium vee pulleys and motor pulleys. centrifugal pumps and pumping equipment. Petter diesel engines. Roseberry engines. Jap petrol engines. (10934.30d) Vine Street, Bendigo. Dear Sir, we wish to advise that our representative Mr. H.W. McMaster, will have the pleasure of calling on you on or about the 1-2 Sep 1954. Any orders entrusted to him will receive our careful prompt attention. bendigo, morton's stores, fw milne and son

Set of 8 black and white photographs of the SEC Ballarat track welding truck, Reg. No. 119 341. Truck is a British Bedford truck, model WHG, built by GMH Melbourne between 1932 and 1934. Has a fabric roof, chassis fitted with a tray top body, side tool box, metal frame and covered with canvas, fitted out with a motor generator set, welding equipment and oxy acetylene bottles. Also fitted with a spot light - 'Auto Reel Lite". - See Related Items sheet on truck notes provided by Kevin Oates, MFESB workshops, 4/2001. (Scan of this sheet of the Kodak folder added 15-8-2017 - see pdf file.) 1705.1 - side on view of truck with covers down, except for opening at back. Photographed in Wendouree Parade with two different boat sheds in the background. 1705.2 - view with drivers side cover opened, showing equipment arrangement. 1705.3 - close up view of motor generator set and controls and one of the oxy acetylene bottles. 1705.4 - view showing equipment laid out on the roadway, welding cover, seat, grinder, cables, shovels, welding mask etc. 1705.5 - close up view of motor generator control panel and associated cables. 1705.6 - view of side of truck showing all equipment. 1705.7 - vertical format photo from rear of truck showing equipment laid out and wandering lead connected to the overhead. Also shows high voltage wires on a power pole fitted with a bracket arm. 1705.8 - view of truck from the front, with SEC symbol on side, with a covers closed. Thought to be photographed at loop in Wendouree Parade on the View Point line, near Mill St. Prints when donated to the BTM were contained within a red and yellow "Kodak" folder. Folder stored with catalogue worksheet. On rear of folder in ink is number "53569" and stamped on the front is number "984" and written in front top left hand cover, "8 prints" and in top right hand corner word "Sarah". See Notes provided by Kevin Oates of the MFESB (Metro Fire Brigade Melbourne) Thornbury workshops on the truck, manufacture and engine. A survey of Wendouree Parade on 22/4/2001 did not show the boat sheds or power lines featured in the photographed. Thought to be in vicinity of Power station because of the high voltage lines on the power poles.Stamped on rear in black ink, "984" on photos 1705.3 to 1705.8.trams, tramways, welding truck, trackwork, secv, wendouree parade

The carbon rods were either used by 'Gem Pictures' or in the study of 'Electricity and Magnetism' at the Ballarat School of Mines. In electricity a current is conducted through carbon rod between the electrode holder and the arc in carbon arc lighting or welding. A carbon rod is also used in batteries. A tin full of carbon rodsOn box found with carbon rods: "Siemens-Planiawerke aktiengesellaschaft fur kohlefabrikate berline-Lichtenberg Made in Germany jede kohle trägt unseren vollen firmenstempel Translation: Siemens Planiawerke A corporation limited by shares producing carbon in Berlin-Lichtenberg Each carbon carries our full company stampballarat school of mines, carbon, carbon rod, arc lighting, electricity, henry sutton, theatre, projector, gem pictures

A colander, sieve or cullender is a kitchen utensil used to strain foods such as pasta or to rinse vegetables. The perforated nature of the bowl allows liquid to drain through while retaining the solids inside it is sometimes also called a pasta strainer or kitchen sieve. Conventionally, colanders are made of a light metal, such as aluminum or thinly rolled stainless or plated steel, colanders are also made of plastic, silicone, ceramic, and enamelware. The word colander comes from the Latin Colum meaning sieve.Early 20th century kitchen item possibly of French manufacture due to the design and shape of the bowl this design appears to have been favoured by the French around 1910 for smaller Colanders. This item gives a snapshot into domestic life around the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the types of kitchen equipment in use.Strainer or colander, metal, with concave base and wood handle, plated metal construction with welded or folded seams. Handle painted black, perforated base.Noneflagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, strainer, food strainer, seive, food preparation, kitchen ware

Households from the 18th century onwards used a hot iron to removed wrinkles and creases in fabric such as clothing, table and bed linen This simple iron stand provided a rest for a hot iron between use during an ironing session and a place for the iron to cool when the session was completed. This item is associated with domestic life during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Triangular shaped stand made from metal rods welded together at feet. Painted black.flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, iron stand, triangular iron stand, ironing, laundry equipment

The anchor is from the wooden sailing ship CHILDREN, which was wrecked at Childers Cove east of Warrnambool on the 14th of January 1839 with the loss of 16 lives. The Children anchor was raised from the wreck site by Flagstaff Hill Divers: Peter Ronald, Garry Hayden (Terang, still), Tim Goodall (now Warrnambool), and Colin Goodall (now Warrnambool), on Sunday, 3rd January 1974. A week or so later, it was dragged up the cliffs and taken to Warrnambool. It is now on display near the entrance to the Maritime Museum and Village. It appears to be a Pering’s Improved Anchor, developed at Portsmouth after 1813. The addition of broad curvature to the anchor arms provided a stronger purchase than the pre-existing Admiralty Old Pattern Long Shanked Anchor with straight arms. However, the evidence of hammer-welding of the separate pieces of the arms and palms to the central shank, peaked crown and flat palms, suggests the manufacture is before the 1831 Rodger’s Anchor design, which cast both arms and their flukes as one piece that was then attached to the shank by a bolt through the crown. This identification seems consistent with the date of the CHILDREN’s construction in 1824. The CHILDREN was a three-masted barque with a wooden hull built at Liverpool in England. The vessel was bought by the Henty family of Portland (Australia Felix) in 1837 for regular coastal trading between Van Diemens Land (now Tasmania), the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and South Australia. Only 255 tons burden (92 feet in length, with a beam of 25 feet and depth of 17 feet), it sailed from Launceston bound for Adelaide in late December 1838, on its first Australian voyage and under the English master who had brought the barque out, Captain H. Browne. On board the CHILDREN were 24 passengers, including 9 children, the captain and 14 crew; livestock of 1500 sheep, 8 bullocks and 7 horses; general cargo of beef, pork, tobacco, tripe, butter, limejuice, horse hair, currants, lead shot, beer and spirits; 5,000 house bricks from London; and six whaling boats with associated whaling gear. The vessel was battered by gale-force north-westerly winds shortly after setting out from Launceston on 11 January 1839, and adverse sailing conditions persisted for the next four days. At 11 pm on the 14th of January 1839, and many miles north and east of the captain’s navigated position, the CHILDREN struck the Pinnacle, a limestone stack off what is now called Childers Cove. Within half an hour, the ship was destroyed. As well as the loss of livestock and cargo, 16 passengers and crew perished, including the captain, six men, one woman and nine children. In 1931, shifting sands at Childers Cove uncovered the skeleton of an adult male. In 1951, another two skeletons were exposed by storms, an adult male and a child. In 1963, some district scuba divers retrieved a small signal cannon from the site. And in 1974, Flagstaff Hill recovered the anchor and some house bricks. The anchor recovered from the Children's wreck is significant as part of the equipment of the early 19th-century barque. The 1839 wreck and recovered artefacts are examples of the construction methods and materials used in that era and can be used to study the evolution of shipbuilding methods and principles. The wreck of the Children is of state significance as one of colonial Victoria’s earliest and most significant maritime disasters, and one of the first vessels lost in the Western District. This is recognised by its inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register, VHR No. S116. Little is left on the seabed to mark the tragedy, apart from some of the house bricks intended for the Henty settlement. A large forged, wrought iron anchor from the wreck of the CHILDREN. Flat hammer-welded flukes on opposing curved arms and a peaked crown. It has a metal, elbowed stock or cross-bar and a heavy-duty pinned, flat-ring shackle for the anchor chain. It is in fair condition but extensively corroded after 135 years on the seabed. flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, shipwreck artefact, children, barque, three-masted, liverpool, childer’s cove, port campbell, 1839 shipwreck, 1939 wreck, james henty and co, henty brothers, captain h. browne, first mate t. gay, second mate w. wentworth, portland, portland bay, anchor, ship’s anchor, peter ronald, garry hayden, tim goodall, colin goodall, pering’s improved anchor

An example of an early design of a kerosene / oil air pump. An example of an early design of a kerosene / oil air pump.Metal air pump fuel syphon. Long cylinder with a cap of feet at the bottom, top has a ring pull that activates the pump action. Curved spout close to the top. Weld on the spout looks to be newer than the original.Nonekerosene, air pump, fuel

Used by Australian Army circa 1960s.Used by Australian Army circa 1960sUnpainted US style aluminium canteen formed by two seam welded halves (front and back sides) with an aluminium threaded top for attaching a top to the water canteen. The water canteen has a black plastic screw top lid attached to the neck by a metal link chain. The front of the water canteen is bowed outwards with the back being flat with a curved top doorway shaped indentation.australian army, water canteen, aluminium

Metal, flat round plate with flange for attachment to headligh, with with metal hood attached (welded/soldered?). Light slot attached from backnone

Blue duplicate Purchase Requisition Book dated 21/1/92 to 29/7/92.Cover has crocodile pattern and blue cloth tape on the spine. Tape on inside front cover. Items in the book include electrical work/repairs, stationary and office supplies and equipment, branding fluid, hardware, welding, dog food, screenings and spreading and checking scale. Blue duplicate pages and white originals. Last pages have This book is cancelled S? written across it. Back cover is missing. Two loose pages in the book. One is a duplicate For All Bull Cattle Colour, dated 3/2/92 for silver and yellow branding fluid. The other is a V/Line Freight Consignment Note dated 5/2/92. Purchase Requisition book with a red and cream patterned book with a red tape spine and blue pages. Saleyards is written in balck texta on the front of the red spine. Book is dated from 24/8/90 to 8/1/92. Requisitions signed by J M Crimmins and J Richmond. Requisitions were for electrical work, plumbing supplies, office materials, branding fluid, dog food, sheep dip, weed killer, repairs to yards, tools, printing, hay, and repairs to truck wash.bendigo, council, cattle markets, bendigo saleyards collection - city of bendigo purchase requisition, hume & iser, brb electrical, boltons bros, d walker pty otd, all bull albury, bearing & industrial supplies, midland irrigation, watson & crane, ray t thompson, golden triangle communications, blue line office supplies, allweld construction, toledo scales, david bolton, dalgety farmers, j m crimmins, rodger wrigley, dookie college, b p bury, ron dixon, beaurepaires tyers, steven hyde, bendigo scale co, d g walker pty ltd, reece, midland ir, bendigo engineering

Used by tram drivers to warn road users of their presence or starting to move. MMTB drawing R8808 shows the mounting mechanism and operation. Demonstrates a tramcar warning device used by drivers.Cast steel and fabricated steel foot gong, consisting of cast bell, weighted striker or clapper operating mechanism and parts to enable it to be attached to the underside of the tramcar or driver's platform. The Foot gong plunger is missing. The clapper part has been extended by welding a section of steel onto it and a rolled section of stainless steel wire has been attached to ring it remotely from an overhead position. The item has been cleaned and varnished.tramcars, tramcar equipment, equipment, gongs, foot gong, drivers

Document titled "Joining of tramway rails by arc welding (Kirby Joint)" has a table of contents. Prepared by the Public Transport Corporation, 1998. Includes notes on safety, materials, instructions, weld preparation and cooling, grinding, records and equipment.Yields information about the Public Transport Corporation of Victoria about the welding of rail joints.Document - approx 27 loose A4 sheets.design, ptc, tramways, civil engineering, construction, welding

Document titled "Joining of rails by aluminothermic welding" , also known as Thermit welding. Has a table of contents. Prepared by the Public Transport Corporation, 1997. Includes notes on safety, materials, instructions, weld preparation and cooling, grinding, records and equipment.Yields information about the Public Transport Corporation of Victoria about the welding of rail joints.Document - 12 loose A4 sheets.design, ptc, tramways, civil engineering, construction, welding

Photograph by Ron Hood shows the SECV welding truck at the Ballarat Lydiard St level crossing with No. 43 passing on its way to Lydiard St North, December 1970. The welding truck was provided with a trolley pole to power the equipment in order to weld or repair rail joints. Photo taken from the Provincial Hotel. Has the level crossing, Kennedy Murray General Carriers and the Ballarat Goods shed in the view. In the far distance is a SECV truck. See items 2864 and 7700 for other photos of the welding truck.Yields information about the use of the welding truck in Ballarat to repair rail joints or the head of the rail.Set of two colour slides in hanimount cardboard mounts."Ballarat" in ink on one of the slides.tramways, trams, tram 43, level crossing, welding, trucks

Set of letters regarding the grinding of rails in Ballarat and the equipment used: 1 - letter from R H Meakin to Mr T P Strickland dated 30/7/1953 about the visit of Mr H Bell - MMTB perway Engineer to see the grinder in use. Typed on SEC letterhead of the period. 2 - Carbon copy of letter from T P Strickland, Chief Engineer MMTB dated 27/7/1935 setting up the visit - typed on orange paper. 4 - Pamphlet - four pages, titled "Quasi-Arc" about the welding of rail heads in points and crossings with the rear page showing the welding set and the portable electric grinder.Yields information about the equipment used in Ballarat to maintain rail heads using a portable grinder.Set of two letters, and a printed pamphlet "Quasi-Arc"tramways, state electricity commission of victoria, secv, mmtb, rails, track maintenance, grinding

Book, titled, "Installation of Rail Bonds by Electric and Copper Welding". Consisting of a 36 page book, printed with many photographs, two tones (black and grey) printed in grey and black ink illustrating the equipment that was made by The Electric Railway Improvement Co. of Cleveland Ohio, USA. Covers in addition to the 36 pages, are on the outside, marbled paper, bluish grey, with embossed dark blue titles and company logo (ERICO), with light blue bands and a photograph of a rail based welding machine on the front cover. Stapled with three staples. On page 2, has been over stamped in purple ink, the name and address of the Australasian representative, "Charles Wright". Date of printing not given in document, estimated to be c1920. See also item Reg. No. 1639, for notes on bonding costs and return circuits.trams, tramways, trackwork, rail bonding, erico, welding

Yields information about the type and presentation of books or information folders that were sent to the Electric Supply Company of Victoria about tramway products available on the market and the company the produced them.Folder with 24 pages of advertising pamphlets bound into it with two metal clip binders advertising products available from the Railway Track-Work Company and titled ""Railway Track Equipment - Track Grinding Machines, Welding and Bonding Machines - Bonds, Welding Steel, Grinding Wheels and Blocks". Has brochures or pamphlets for: . The Universal Rotary Track Grinder . Reciprocating Track Grinder . The Atlas Rail Grinder . The Ajax Electric Arc welders .Vertical Rail Lifter . The Jackson Electric Tie Tamper. Generally the lead page of each pamphlet has been imaged. Provides a description of each item, along with method of operation and parts listing generally. The folder has on a number of pages and the back cover, a sticker from Frank R. Perrot (Now Perrot and Adams Ltd), Machinery Merchant of 394 Kent St Sydney. Railway Track-work Company , Clementine, Thompson and Mercer Sts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. For a full scan of the document see the hi res file.Numerous: Front cover sticky label "1620" in top left hand corner, "Mr Pringle" on front cover and stamp with words "Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society Catalogue No. 10" in ink on front cover. Inside front cover has a pencil note, behind the crease in the bottom right hand corner. On the first pamphlet "Ballarat Tramway Preservation Society Catalogue No. 10" in ink on top right hand corner. On parts page for the Reciprocating Track Grinder has the "Perrot and Adam Ltd" company stamp.trams, tramways, trackwork, equipment, rails

This list of factories in the City of Sunshine is an extract from a report by K.G. Wilson, L.R. Dryer & R.A. Scaramella, prepared for the Melbourne Western Region Commission (WRC). The Melbourne Western Region Commission was a major inter‑municipal planning and advocacy body operating across Melbourne’s western suburbs in the late 1970s and 1980s. It coordinated planning, heritage studies, and regional development across multiple councils. The Commission brought together a broad sweep of western-region councils City of Altona, City of Essendon, City of Footscray, City of Keilor, City of Sunshine, City of Williamstown, Shire of Bacchus Marsh, Shire of Melton & Shire of Werribee. The Melbourne Western Region Commission was one of the most important institutional predecessors to the region’s later heritage, planning, and community‑development frameworks.This report records the business name, type of industry and address of businesses operating in the City of Sunshine in 1984.Factory Name or Occupier A. Korinfsky & Connolly A.J. & J.N. Cook A.R.C. Engineering Pty Ltd Air Refiners Aust Pty Ltd Ajax Pumps Pty Ltd Albion Explosive Factory (Department of Defence) Alliance Printing Co. Pty Ltd Aqua Heat Australia Pty Ltd Aranem Furniture Pty Ltd Arrar Pty Ltd Australain Tube Mills Pty Ltd Australian Quality Closures (Volanda Nominees Pty Ltd) Aztec Sheet Metal Industries Pty Ltd B.G. & J.M. Douglas Nominees Pty Ltd Berkeley Appatel Pty Ltd Berkshire Kitchen Cabinets Pty Ltd Blade Engineering Pty Ltd Boka Engineering Pty Ltd Boneham Engineering Pty Ltd Brand Engineering Toolmaking (Vic) Pty Ltd C.G. Carlton Pty Ltd C.J.T. Niven Pty Ltd C.M.A. Foam Group (Cablemakers Aust Pty Ltd) Campbell & Paterson Engineering Pty Ltd Cargo Newpack Industries City Insulations Pty Ltd Classic Garage Construction Cliff Poole Industries Pty Ltd Collie Cooke Consolidated Conlo Constructions Pty Ltd Connor Shea & Co. Pty Ltd Consolidated Partition Industries Holding Pty Ltd Cosmoplitan Clothing Manfacturers Crea Fashions Pty Ltd Currie Furniture Manufacturing Pty Ltd D. Richardson & Son Ltd Dalco Hardware (Dalco Pty Ltd) Daveyduke Industries (Mimvic Nominees Pty Ltd) Debora Downs Pty Ltd Deer Park Engineering Pty Ltd Deer Park Flyscreens (Azzopardi & Associates Pty Ltd) Dieselflex Pty Ltd Donald Minahan Pty Ltd Drava Continental Butchers & Smallgoods Manufacturer Drilling Equipment (Van Dyke Pty Ltd) Dunham Welding Engineering Pty Ltd E. & F. Industries Pty Ltd E.P. Morrisey & Co. Pty Ltd Elite-Built Holdings Ltd Englehold Engineering Pty Ltd Everlast Steel Products Explosive Factory (Department of Defence Support) Extruded Metals Pty Ltd Exy-Fit Screens F. & D.M. Costa Pty Ltd F. & I. Pfeffer Holdings Pty Ltd F.J. Humphrey Pty Ltd Fallshaw Holdings Pty Ltd Ferrous Forgings Pty Ltd Fleet Engineering Pty Ltd Fletcher Chemical Co. Ltd Franklin Printing & Lithographic Co. Pty Ltd Fraser Cabinets Pty Ltd G. & L. Stone Pty Ltd G.A.M. Engineering Industries Pty Ltd G.P.I. Automotive Products Pty Ltd G.U.D. Manufacturing Co. Pty Ltd G.W. Gregory Engineering (Aust) Pty Ltd General Printing Ink (Aust) Pty Ltd George Press Pty Ltd Griffiths & Beeren Pty Ltd Gubbata Nominess Pty Ltd Harkrome Electroplaters Pty Ltd Hills & Mason Pty Ltd Hydraulic Equipment & Cylinder Service Pty Ltd Hy-Du-Ex I.C.I. Australia Operations Pty Ltd I.H. Mono & Co. Idea General Engineering Industrial Engineering Invicta Group Industries Pty Ltd K. & B. Windows Pty Ltd K.C. Furniture & Cabinets K.D.S. Manufacturing K.M. Tubular Industries (Aust) Pty Ltd K.P.T. Clothing Manufacturers (K.T.P. Fashions Pty Ltd) Kanga Engineering Pty Ltd Keilor Footwear Pty Ltd Kelgrif Patterns Pty Ltd Klipspringer Pty Ltd Krueger Transports Equipment Pty Ltd Langmar Pty Ltd Layton Granite Industries Pty Ltd Lesvos General Products (Gabbia Pty Ltd) Lewis Foundry Lysaght Durham Chemical Company (Austram Corporation Ltd) M.C.I. (Aust) Pty Ltd M.J. Billings M.S.M. Cabinets Pty Ltd Maidstone Cabinet Works Marble Art Company Marib Cutter Sharpening Service Massey-Ferguson (Aust) Ltd McIntyre Steel Industries (Vic) Pty Ltd Midway Press Business Forms Mirna Cabinets Manufacturers Pty Ltd Monsanto Aust Ltd Morgan Cabinets Morris Structural & Engineering Newroll Industries Pty Ltd North Sunshine Cases Novio Insulation (Vic) Pty Ltd Olex Cables (Dunlop Olympic Ltd) Ordnance Factory (Department of Defence Support) P. & S. Siegel Pty Ltd P.S. Fenech Pty Ltd Pacific Carpets Internations Pty Ltd Pattern Productions Pauls Woodworking Pty Ltd Penthouse Furniture Co. Pty Ltd Peter Bouris General Steel Work Pomona Printers Pty Ltd Presstool Manufacturing & Grinding R.E.M. Constructions Pty Ltd R.J. Thompson Nominees Pty Ltd R.M.D. Press Co. Pty Ltd Ralph McMay Ltd Reeco Industries Pty Ltd Regina Terrazzo Tile Robcliff Printing Rockwell Standard of Australia Ltd Saturn Quality Trailers Pty Ltd Sedco Pty Ltd & Sunshine Extrusion Die Co. Pty Ltd Sign City Pty Ltd Smithweld Pty Ltd Smorgan Consolidated Industries Solo Signs Spafco Pty Ltd Stafford Engineering Pty Ltd Star of Paris Pty Ltd Steel Improvement Pty Ltd Sunset Joinery Pty Ltd Sunshine Engineering Pty Ltd Sunshine Group Industries Pty Ltd Sunshine Joinery Pty Ltd Sunshine Metal Polishing Pty Ltd Sunshine Trailers Sunshine Vitreous Enamellers Pty Ltd Sunshine Wrought Iron Super Cartridge Superstyle Tubular Manufacturers Pty Ltd Talkprint Pty Ltd Tenderfoot Shoes Treble Printing Co. Trifoleum Pty Ltd Ultra Scales Pty Ltd United Scales Pty Ltd V.P. Hawthorne Nominees Pty Ltd Vinidex Tubemakers Pty Ltd Vitas Engineering W. & H. General Engineering Pty Ltd W. Pridham (Aust) (Peerless Processing Co Pty Ltd) W.G. Engels Pty Ltd W.L. Allen Foundry Co. Pty Ltd Wakefield Repetition & General Engineers Warren & Brown Co. (Repco Ltd) Westbury Joinery Co. Holdings Pty Ltd Western Containers Pty Ltd & Chanel Press Pty Ltd Westgate Engineering Westside Joinery Pty Ltd (The Bulman Family Trust) Westwork Industries Wiltshire Tools Pty Ltd Worsted Finishers (Aust) Pty Ltd melbourne western region commission

During prestige, long distance train journeys some carriages had air-conditioning, and the majority of passengers had to brave unheated carriages. To offer some comfort during the winter months, the non-air-conditioned carriages were provided with footwarmers. These were metal containers roughly 100 mm thick and 300 mm wide, and about 750 mm long, which were filled with salt crystals (concentrated crystalline hydrated sodium acetate). The footwarmers were covered by sleeves of thick canvas, and two footwarmers were usually placed in each compartment of non-air-conditioned carriages. To activate the chemicals, the footwarmers were heated almost to boiling point. This was done by removing the canvas sleeves and placing the footwarmers in a large bath of very hot water. After they had been heated, they were removed from the bath and the sleeves refitted. They were then ready to be placed in the carriages. The McLaren patent foot warmer was used on railways in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia as well as South Africa and New Zealand. It was during the 1901 royal visit by the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall that these foot warmers were first used in New Zealand in the royal carriage. Before railway carriage heating was introduced, McLaren patent foot warmers were placed on the floor of New South Wales government railway carriages from 1891 to provide a little passenger comfort. The rectangular steel container worked a bit like a hot water bottle but instead of water contained six and a half kilograms of loosely-packed salt crystals, (concentrated crystalline hydrated sodium acetate). This was permanently sealed inside the container with a soldered cap. After the foot warmer was heated in vat of boiling water for about one and a quarter hours the crystals became a hot liquid. (The melting point for sodium acetate is 58 degrees). There was a whole infrastructure of special furnaces set up at stations for the daily heating of foot warmers. By 1914 the Victorian railways had 4,000 foot warmers in service and by 1935 there were 33 furnaces at principal stations to heat them. After about 10 hours the container was picked up by the handle and given a good vertical shake which helped the cooled liquid reform into a solid mass of hot crystals. Staff or sometimes passengers shook them en route when the foot warmers began to get cold. However, as they were heavy this was only possible by fit and agile passengers. At the end of the journey the containers were boiled again for reuse on the next trip. Sodium acetate railway foot warmers were introduced in Victoria in 1889, Adelaide to Melbourne express in 1899. "Shaking up" on this service took place at Murray Bridge and Stawell on the tip to Melbourne and at Ballarat and Serviceton on the trip to Adelaide. The use of foot warmers began to decline in New South Wales from the 1930s with the first trial of carriage air-conditioning in 1936, steam heating from 1948 ad LP gas heating from 1961. By the early 1960s the main services using foot warmers were the overnight mail trains. info from : http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=67564#ixzz4UBNzVf6t Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial There was a whole infrastructure set up at stations for the daily heating of foot warmers in special furnaces. In Victoria alone in 1935 there were 33 heating works.Historic - Victorian Railways - Carriage Heater - Foot warmerA rectangular-shaped stainless steel casing with a welded seam down the back and welded ends. There is a handle at one end for carrying and shaking. Inside the foot warmer are two baffle plates and three trays to contain the sodium acetate. There was a cast-iron ball in each internal compartment. puffing billy, victorian railways, carriage haeter, foot warmer, passenger comfort, station furnace, railway ephemera, early heating methods