• Title
  Gillette Safety Razor Company - Cables and radio scripts concerning the 'bodyline' cricket series, 1932-1933
• Creator
  Gillette Safety Razor Company
• Call number
  MLMSS 6187/Box 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  2 December 1932-16 February 1933
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  132806
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.04 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) - typescript - 33.5 x 25.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Restrictions on commercial radio in the United Kingdom in the 1930s resulted in radio stations being established on the continent beamed directly to the United Kingdom. The main station was situated in Paris. One of its advertisers was the Gillette Safety Razor Co. which sponsored reporting of the controversial 1932-33 cricket series played between Australia and England in Australia. (This became known as the 'bodyline' series because of the dangerous bowling tactics used by the English team). A reporter cabled very brief descriptions of play to Paris where they were transformed into full scripts which were then broadcast to the United Kingdom.
  Prominent players for England were Douglas Jardine, Harold Larwood, Bill Voce, Walter Hammond and Gubby Allen, and for Australia Bill Woodfull, Sir Donald Bradman, Stan McCabe, Bill O'Reilly and Bert Oldfield
• Scope and Content
  FILE 1:
  Cables and accounts of the First Test Match between Australian and England at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
  
  FILE 2:
  Cables and accounts of the Second Test Match between Australian and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
  
  FILE 3:
  Cables and accounts of the Third Test Match between Australian and England at the Adelaide Oval.
  
  FILE 4:
  Cables and accounts of the Fourth Test Match between Australian and England at the Gabba, Brisbane.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription of the nine cables here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a295.html
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at: CY 3719, frames 1-154
  
  Microfilm copy made, Sept. 1997.
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823888
  This collection has been preserved as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  
  Read the transcription of the nine cables here: http://archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a295.html
  Second Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, pages 1, 2, 5, 6, 7.
  Third Test at the Adelaide Oval, pages 7, 8, 13, 14.
  A fifth test was played in this Bodyline Series however the SLNSW does not possess the cables and radio scripts to this match.
• Name
  Allen, George Oswald Browning, 1902-1989
  Bodyline (cricket bowling style)
  Bradman, Donald, Sir, 1908-2001
  Hammond, Walter, 1905-1965
  Jardine, Douglas, 1900-1958
  Larwood, Harold, 1904-1995
  McCabe, Stan, 1910-1968
  Oldfield, W. A. (William Albert Stanley), 1894-1976
  O'Reilly, W.J. (William Joseph), 1905-1992
  Voce, Bill
  Woodfull, W. M. (William Maldon), 1897-1965
  
• Subject
  Broadcasting.
  Cricket.
  Cricket matches.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (January - June 2003)
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March 2010 - June 2010)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1661926

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