Content as in title/subject.|Contents:|0 - 3 mins : Workplace accidents.|3 - 6 mins : Gelignite handling. Starting date at ICI when she was 19. Facility construction.|6 - 9 mins : Workplace accidents. Socializing out of hours with work…
*RESTRICTED ACCESS*|Content of interview not for public use.|Content:|0 - 2 min: Mrs Williams duties in the packing room of the munitions industry in 1939 - 1943 then 1950's for 2 years.|2 - 4 min : Duties continued. Final examiner for 303's in the…
*RESTRICTED ACCESS*|Content of interview not for public use.|Contents:|0 - 3 mins: Family History|3 - 6 mins: Casual work at Angliss Meat Works during spring lamb season.|6 - 9 mins : Coal workers strike and its effect on employment in the 20's. …
Includes working notes and drafts.|William Holten Pettit grew up in Footscray and describes his childhood with detail on school and all the landmarks that were found in the district. After educating as a chemist he went to work at places like…
Handwritten speech that was delivered by Miss Wright on 20-11-1980, on her retirement. Miss Wright had worked at the Footscray munition factory since 1939.
Numerous article clipping from the 1880's looking at the manufacture and associated issues of explosives. Content explores safety regulations, the manufacture of explosives (dynamite), trials and experiments, importation and incidents involving…
Source indeterminable.|Chapter from a book on the munitions industry in Australia that concentrates on the factory in Footscray. Content describes the function and workings of the factory.
A history of the Powder Magazine in Footscray. Included are the author's personal research notes and references in two separate journals.|Includes a chronology of keepers of the magazine from 1878-1935.|In 2005, a Jack's Magazine fact sheet was…
A reference guide to government sources relating to the employment of women during WWII. This list provides accession numbers to government directorates and documents held by the Australian Archives.|Also included is an information sheet 'Access to…
This collection is made up of draft notes and source material of various kinds for writing a history of the Dept. of Munitions. Items range from the fairly elaborate draft histories of war time directorates down through often detailed stories with…
Essay exploring the nature of work for women in factories in the western suburbs during 1923-55. Majority of the essay concentrates on the munitions industry but also includes Drayton's (Sunshine Potteries) and H.V Mckay.
