Sir Ernest Fisk - papers concerning Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company and Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), 1892, 1906-1964

MLMSS 6275/17-26

series

1892 - 1964

147230

File titles have been taken from original files created by Sir Ernest Fisk or by his personal secretaries.

1911-1912; '2. United States. Patent Actions' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1911; '3. Marconi International Marine Com. Co. Correspondence (Outward) 1911' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1911; '4. Marconi International Marine Com. Co. Correspondence (Outward) 30th March 1911 to 21st Decr. 1911' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1912; '5. Correspondence (Outward) Marconi International Marine Com. Co. 1st January 1912 to 30th June 1912' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1911-1912; '6. Correspondence (Inward) Marconi International Marine Com. Co. 28 th December 1911 to 26th June 1912' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1912-1913; '7. Patent Actions. Australasian Wireless Co. Ltd. v. Maritime Wireless Company and Archibald Shaw. 1912' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1911-1912; '8. Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. Inward Correspondence. 1911' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1912-1913; '9. Correspondence with Australasian Wireless Company Mainly on Legal Matters from Melbourne. 1912' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1912-1913; '10. New Zealand Patent Actions - Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd. [v.] The King [&] Union S. S. Co.' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1911-1913; '11. New Zealand Actions for Infringement. Marconi's Wireless Tl. Co. Ltd., Vs The King Vs Huddart Parker & Co., Pty, Limited Vs Union Steamship Co., of N.Z. Ltd. 1911-1913' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/17)
1912-1913; '12. New Zealand Actions' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/18)
1912-1913; '14. Correspondence (Outward) M.I.M.C.C. July 1st, 1912 to 20th May, 1913' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/18)
1912-1913; '15. Correspondence (Inward) M.I.M.C.C. July 1st, 1912 to 28th April, 1913' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/18)
1912-1913; '16. Correspondence (Inward) M.W.T.C. 1st Janry. 1912 to 26th April, 1913' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/18)
1911-1913; '17. Correspondence (General) M.W.T.C. (Inward) Aug. 21st, 1911 to 26th April, 1913' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/18)
1913, 1915; '19. Interviews [conducted mainly by Fisk in New Zealand in 1913]' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/18)
1906-1910; Correpondence with Marconi International Marine Communication Company Ltd mainly concerning conditions of employment (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1908-1911, 1913; Correspondence mainly with Marconi International Marine Communication Company Ltd, London, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of America, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada, and Jack R. Williams (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1909-1910; Correpondence and cables mainly with Marconi International Marine Communication Company Ltd, with drafts of Fisk's article, 'Seal Hunting in the Arctic Icefields', 1910 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1910; 'Agreement Between the Vitagraph Co. of America and Ernest Fisk on 31.1.10' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1910; Correspondence with Marconi International Marine Communication Company Ltd (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1910-1911, 1947; Copies of letters to Government officials, newspapers and shipping companies concerning Marconi patents, with certificate of service on the R.M.S. Otranto, 1910-1911, (1947) (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1911; 'Cables 1911 [to and from London]' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1912; 'M. Pichon's Report on Marconi's New Zealand Patents' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1911-1912; 'Sale of P[atent] Rights' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1910-1912; 'Patents / Letters opinions & c. / Walsh Spruson Leverrier K.C. / etc.' Includes letters received from Fred Walsh, Patent Attorney, Melbourne, and Wilfred J. Spruson, Patent Attorney, Sydney (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1911-1913; 'Patent Actions London Correspondence' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1911-1913; 'London Correspondence Re Commonwealth Negotiations' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/19)
1911-1912; 'Points in Commonwealth Wireless Tangle' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/20)
1912; Challis House [Sydney] cables received from London (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/20)
1911-1912; 'Four Sevens', being papers concerning legal cases on patents including Marconi and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited Vs The British Radio Telegraph and Telephone Company Limited, 1911 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/20)
1912-1913; Copies of statutory declarations by Marconi Company employees and others in support of its patent actions in Australia (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/20)
1911-1913; Correspondence with Blake & Riggall, Solicitors, Melbourne (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/20)
1911-1913; 'Blake & Riggall In', being letters received (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/20)
1911-1914; 'Blake & Riggall', mainly concerning Marconi Vs The Commonwealth of Australia, 1912, and the conversion of State patents (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/20)
1913-1914; 'Blake & Riggall I - Marconi v. Commonwealth' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/21)
1914; 'Blake & Riggall II - Marconi C'wealth Action 1912 - Conversion of State Patents no. 1' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/21)
1912-1913; Papers concerning Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited Vs The Commonwealth of Australia (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/21)
1912-1915; Papers concerning Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited Vs The Commonwealth of Australia, with licence from the Marconi Company and Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited to the Commonwealth of Australia to make use and excercise certain inventions relating to wireless telegraphy, 1 Oct. 1915 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/21)
1912-1914; Papers concerning Harold L. Byrne, electrician, Moonee Ponds (Vic.) (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/21)
1912-1913; Correspondence mainly with Marconi Company; Blake & Riggall; Union Steamship Co. of N. Z. Ltd; and James Gill, Resident Inspector - New Zealand for Marconi International Marine Communication Company Ltd, mainly concerning new Australian company [Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia)] (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/21)
1911-1914; 'New Company / Miscellaneous Agreements Etc. No.12' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/21)
1913-1916; 'Chairman & Board', being mainly copies of letters and reports to the Chairman and Managing Director, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), on the company's operations and performance, and relating to the Marconi Commonwealth Action, 1912 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1912-1913; Papers concerning Archibald Shaw's patent applications and Marconi Commonwealth Action, 1912 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1912-1913; Papers concerning Marconi legal action against Shaw and Balsillie Australian patents (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1912-1917; Miscellaneous correspondence (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1892, 1913; 'Honourable Audley Coote File' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1913; 'Copy / Hobart Station Victor Nightingall Report August 28th, 1913' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1913; 'First Inspection of Government Stations at Melbourne, Hobart and Brisbane. August 28th 1913. Extracts from Ships Logs' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1913-1916; 'Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co.', being correspondence (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1913-1916; 'Subsidy Ships' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
ca. 1913-1917 ; 'AWA L[imited] Extension' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1914-1916; 'Board & Company Meetings, Agenda etc' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1914; 'J. W. O. Hamilton Action' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/22)
1915; Papers concerning Donohue Vs Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, Fisk, Bartholomew and Denison - Trading with the Enemy Acts 1914, Sec. 3 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1915; 'Shaw & Balsillie 1915' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1915, 1917; Papers concerning 'defamatory' papragraph about Fisk published in The Australian Bystander, 22 Nov. 1917 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1914-1916; Letters received mainly from station operators in the Pacific (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1916; 'Letters to London (Private), 2-3 Oct. 1916' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1916-1917; Correspondence concerning renewal of Fisk's certificate of proficiency in radiotelegraphy (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1917; 'Portraits - Prominent men in ass[ociated] co[mpanies] - Letters re' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1917-1918; 'Marconi Coy. Members 1917' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1910-1919; 'Personal - E. T. Fisk', being scrapbook of copied letters received mainly from Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1918-1920; Scrapbook of copied correspondence mainly with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company and the Australian Federal Government concerning, among other things, commercial wireless service between Britain and Australia, with newscuttings (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/23)
1921; 'Wireless', being printed circular letter from Fisk with notes (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/24)
1922-1923; Correspondence and cables [London] (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/24)
1924-1925; Cables to and from London (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/24)
1926; Cables mainly to and from London (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/24)
1927; Report on Colonial Wireless System (Mar. 1927) by Committee of Imperial Defence - Imperial Communications Committee - Sub-committee on Colonial Wireless System (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
ca. 1929; 'Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited Organisational Structure', being carbon typescript (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1932; 'Control and Management of National Broadcasting Service' by E. T. Fisk, Feb. 1932, being carbon typescript (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1939; 'Overseas Wireless and Submarine Cables (Australia)' and supplementary notes, by Ernest Fisk, 20 Sep. 1939, being carbon typescript (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1939; 'Report on World Range Broadcasting [by Sir Ernest Fisk] compiled for the Honourable Sir Henry Gullett, K.C.M.G. Minister for External Affairs and Minister for Information, Commonwealth of Australia', 6 Oct. 1939. Carbon typescript (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
193--1942; 'Cable - Wiireless Agreement' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1941; Copy of report compiled by George S. Knowles concerning Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) and proposals for new communication company, 29 Mar. 1941. Carbon typescript (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1943; Proposals for New Communication Company January 1943, with memorandum of Fisk's interview with R. J. Mair of the Federal Taxation Department, Canberra, 1 July 1943 (2 July 1943) (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
Jan. 1944; 'British Empire Communications Proposed Network', being a memorandum by Fisk in two volumes. Carbon typescript with charts (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
'Memoranda dictated by Sir Ernest Fisk Whilst in London - March/June 1944', being typescript and carbon typescript; (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1944; 'British Empire Wireless Network - Memoranda on Load and Rates Possibilities', dictated by Sir Ernest Fisk in London. Typescript (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1944; Quarterly statements and balance sheet as at 30 June 1944 of Amalgamated Wireless Valve Company Pty Ltd (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1944-1945; Papers concerning Fisk's notice of resignation, including minutes of Board of Directors' meetings, 11 Sep. and 4 Dec. 1944, and copy of testimonial received from Board of Directors, 4 Dec. 1944 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
ca. 1945; Subject files, being typed transcripts of documents, 1918-1929: 'Beam', 'Broadcasting', 'Commonwealth Agreement 1922 - Hansard Extracts', 'Commonwealth Agreement 1924 - Hansard Extracts', 'Commonwealth Agreements 1927, Hansard Extracts', 'General', 'Service Card 1915' and 'Wireless Telephony' (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1926-1944; Miscellaneous papers including letters received; 'World Radio Convention Progress Report', 16 Nov. 1937; and facts and statistics on wireless/broadcasting in Australia, 21 July 1938 (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/25)
1920-1962; Memorandum and Articles of Association of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited (1925); Annual General Meeting and Chairman's Address, 1932, 1939-1942, 1944-1945, 1953, 1957, 1964; Annual Report of the Directors, 1932-1951, 1953, 1957, 1962; and other AWA promotional and technical publications (Call No.: ML MSS 6275/26)

Numbered sequence for ML MSS 6275/17-18 and roughly chronological for ML MSS 6275/19-26.