Reprographic drawings and photographs of production industry machinery engineered by Gibson Battle & Co., 1925-1959.

PXD 1275
PXE 1418 Boxes 1-6
FM1/5763 - FM1/5770

fonds

1925-1959

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Design Drawings, Prints

903441

8 negatives - aperture cards - (35mm) 8 x 8.5 cm with card
331 photographs - black & white, colour - 20 x 25 cm or smaller
1595 reprographic drawings - paper vellum - 24 x 36 cm each

Gibson Battle & Co. Limited, merchant engineering company established in 1883. Engineers and manufacturers of production machinery including internal combustion and steam engines, tractors, dragline and earthmoving machinery, conveyors, agricultural industry machinery and transport. In 1961 the company was taken over by Tutt Bryant Limited. The Engineered Products Group currently has four major Divisions supplying Australian industry with pumps, hydraulic systems, mechanical power transmission products and engines.

This pictorial material is part of Gibson Battle & Co. papers at MLMSS 5331.

PXD 1275

One box containing;

1. 7 photographs taken at the GB Sales conference, October 1951 at Florida House, Rose Bay.

2. 4 photographs of the rotor for a hammer mill.

3. 6 colour photographs of staff, plant site and showroom of Gibson Battle-Tutts-Pimec Edges & Teeth Supply Co.

4. 4 photocopies of Ruston & Proctor (England) Portable Steam Engine, c. 1990.

5. 53 photographs including 20 colour photos of tractors, dragline and earthmoving machinery, and outdoor displays of edge and teeth machinery supplies.

6. 7 photographs of an on-site Preston crane overturned.

7. 1 instruction plaque for the safe operation of a rammer.

8. 3 photographs of unidentified production machinery.

9. 24 photographs of Gibson Battle & Co. Limited at the Queensland Industries Fair, 1959, and 1 photograph of the view of Conveyor No. 2 taken from discharge point of Conveyor No. 1.

10. 28 photographs of farm industry machinery including the Bone and Meat Hasher.

11. 6 photographs of electrical stunning machinery being administered on farm animals.

12. 55 photographs including 3 pages of proofs, including an industry fair display of engineered production machinery, general fabrication, conveyors and screens.

13. 4 photographs of rail vehicles and machinery at Cementos Apasco in Mexico.

14. 5 photographs of a Whiting train car washer installed at Punchbowl Sheds for NSW Government Railways, September 1959.

15. 6 photographs of machinery built by Whiting Corporation and the National Engineering Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

16. 3 photographs of machinery in the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited.

17. 33 A3 sized photographic copies of Ruston & Proctor (England) including Class PSG and PON ie. single and double cylinder, portable steam engines from 2HP to 40HP.

18. 70 A3 sized photographic copies of 1909-1920 detailed reprographic drawings of Ruston & Proctor (England) machinery including Class P single cylinder (SC), portable steam engine and ordinary and colonial fireboxes.

PXE 1418 (Box 1)

1 photo album (96 photographs) of engineered production machinery including conveyors and pipelines, and industry displays for Gibson Battle & Co., including the Foundry Exhibition, ca. 1940s - c. 1950s.

PXE 1418 (Box 2-6)

Five boxes containing approximately 300 reprographic drawings in each box, drawn with black ink and pencil on paper vellum (plasticised cotton) of various components of Gibson Battle & Co. engineered production machinery, from 1925 to 1948.

FM1/5763 - FM1/5770

8 aperture cards (35mm) of detailed drawings of a 6 tonne AC United Road Roller, drawn March, 1930.

Access via appointment - FM1/5763 - FM1/5770

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.6967 as part of the eRecords Project 2012-13

Drawings are dusty, creased and damaged at edges