ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection

Call Number

HMSS 0269

Collection 

Canberra Panel of Engineering Heritage Australia Oral History Program

Date Range

1915-2004

Quantity

0.30m (1 manuscript box)

Access Conditions

open

Copying conditions

with attribution

Related Collections

Description

xxxx – xxxx

LEONARD GEORGE REDMOND

1988 – 2003

1

Interview by Dr Margaret Park at George Redmond’s home, 17 Howes Street, Campbell, ACT on 21 October 2003:

2 tapes, IEA SYD MP 7-8 (copies)

Interview tape log

Interviewee’s release document

2 sleeves

2003

1

Northern Territory Archives Services – Oral History Unit Transcripts from George Redmond’s Archives

Cyclone Tracy and Department of Works. Recorded September 1993 and June 1994 in Canberra by Dr F. H. (Slim) Bauer. From 4 tapes.
Tape: Series: NTRS 219; Item: TP934
Transcript: Series: NTRS 226; Item: TS734

Works, Housing and Construction 1962-1977. Recorded between 1988 and 1993 in Canberra by Dr F. H. (Slim) Bauer. From 13 tapes.
Tape: Series: NTRS 219; Item: TP965
Transcript: Series: NTRS 226; Item: TS764

4 sleeves

1988 – 1994

ALEXANDER ROSS McINTYRE (1923- )

2004

1

Interviewed by Dr Margaret Park at Ross McIntyre’s home, 32 Beauchamp Street, Deakin, on 14 May and at Dr Park’s home on 19 May 2004.

6 tapes, IEA EHA:  MP 10-15 (copies)

Interview tape log, Biographical notes (printed and on computer disk)

Interviewee’s release document

Interview summary

“Some Notes on the Life and Career of Alexander Ross McIntyre as at May 2004”

5 sleeves

2004

BYRNE KENNY, ROSS McINTYRE, LLOYD WRIGLEY

2005

1

Interviewer: Dr Margaret Park.
Byrne Kenny interviewed on 12 January 2005
Ross McIntyre interviewed on 13 January 2005
Lloyd Wrigley interviewed on 10 February 2005

5 tapes, EHA 1-6 (masters)

Interview tape logs

Interviewee’s release documents

Interview summary

4 sleeves

2005

CHARLES THOMAS JAMES BUBB

2003

1

Interviewed by Dr Margaret Park at Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, on 17, 24 and 31 October 2003

7 tapes, IEA EHA: MP 1-7 (copies)

Interview tape log

Interviewee’s release document

2003

PROFESSOR BRIAN O’KEEFFE

1980 – 2004

1

Interviewed by Dr Margaret Park at 2  Tobermorey Place, Hawker on 17 June 2004

5 tapes, IEA EHA MP 16-20 (copies)

Interview tape log

Interviewee’s release document

Interview summary, Biographical notes

4 sleeves

2004

1

Tamara Johnson. ‘Father of FANS retires after 41 years’. Airspace August 1997 p6-7.

‘Life and pioneering times in civil aviation in Australia and the world’. The Order, Summer 2003-2004 p6-7.

Brian O’Keeffe. ‘An analysis of the performance of GPS for general aviation operations in Australia’. Monitor June-August 2003 p18-22.

O’Keeffe, Brian. ‘The resonant frequency of Hertz’s loop antenna’. Monitor December 2002-February 2003 p16-17.

Edwards, Paul. ‘What was the resonant length of Hertz’s loop antenna?’ Monitor June-August 2002 p14.

Gordon, John. ‘Canberra Radio Foundation Day 2001 celebrations’. Monitor March-May 2002 p14-16.

‘IEAust Notices’. Engineers Australia September 1998 p18.

O’Keeffe, H. B. ‘INTERSCAN – The Development and International Acceptance of a New Microwave Landing System for Civil Aviation’. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. Electrical Engineering. Vol EE16, no 2, June 1980, p78-81.

1 sleeve

1980 - 2004

NORMAN SNEATH (1926- )

1954 - 2005

1

Interviewed by Dr Margaret Park at 3 Holyrood Drive, Vermont, Victoria 3133, on 8 April 2005.

6 tapes, IEA EHA MP 21-26 (copies)

Interview tape log

Interviewee’s release document

Interview summary, Biographical notes, Entry from Who’s Who in Australia 2005

4 sleeves

2005

1

CD: Failures, Darwin. ACT Head Office.
Photocopies of photographs of load-bearing structures

Department of Housing and Construction: A to Z of Projects; Regional Office Organisation. No date

Mascot Tunnel, Sydney Airport – notes and correspondence. 1968-1998

The Black Mountain Problem; Progress report. No date

Letters of thanks and appreciation, from Norm Sneath’s archives donated to Engineering Heritage Australia as part of his oral history interview 2005. 1954-2002

Monash University documents re appointment of Norm Sneath in 1993, and his teaching schedule 1987-1993

Second Hobart Bridge, brochure; Norm Sneath was Deputy Chairman, Chief Structural Engineer. January 1978

Westgate Royal Commission Report: extracts and covering letter from Norm Sneath. 10 October 1971

10 sleeves

1954 – 2002

CANBERRA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS

1915 - 1979

1

National Capital Development Commission. Belconnen Sewage Treatment Facilities. Scott and Furphy, 1966. Design drawings.

1966

1

Weston Creek Sewage Treatment Works, 1967. Bound with Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Works, ca 1967. History, description, specifications, design drawings.

1915 – 1967

1

Australia. Department of Works. Advanced Waste Water Treatment, 1973/1974. Paper presented at unspecified event.

1973/1974

1

Department of Housing and Construction. Sewerage Branch. Lower Molonglo Water Quality Control Centre. Technical Brochure. Ca 1979.

1979