• Title
  Item 08: Milton Kent aerial Vacuum Oil Company views of Brisbane, Concord, Glebe Island, Mascot, North Sydney, Pyrmont, Pulpit Point and Sydney, between 1928-1940
• Call number
  ON 447/Box 023
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  between 1928-1940
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  960069
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  20 negatives - glass, gelatin silver - approximately 12 x 16.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  As motor vehicles became more popular in Australia, Vacuum expanded its operations. In 1924 Vacuum opened its first bulk petroleum products terminal at Pulpit Point in Sydney and took delivery of its first imported bulk oil products cargo, a 1.5 million gallon shipment carried from the United States by the tanker "HT Harper". A decade later, Vacuum introduced "Ethyl", Australia's first Super grade motor spirit.
  
  Reference:
  "Mobil history" in ExxonMobil Australia. http://www.exxonmobil.com.au/ (accessed March 8, 2012)
• Scope and Content
  BOX 023
  
  VACUUM OIL
  
  BRISBANE
  1. Plume depot, Brisbane River
  
  CONCORD
  2. Yaralla and Majors Bay, Rhodes
  3. Yaralla and Majors Bay, Rhodes
  4. Yaralla and Majors Bay, Rhodes
  5. Yaralla and Majors Bay, Rhodes
  6. Yaralla and Majors Bay, Rhodes
  
  GLEBE ISLAND
  7. Glebe Island
  
  MASCOT
  8. Kingsford Smith Air Service Ltd.
  
  NORTH SYDNEY
  9. North Sydney and Harbour Bridge
  10. North Sydney and Harbour Bridge
  
  PYRMONT
  11. Pyrmont looking east
  
  PULPIT POINT
  12. Vacuum Oil, Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill
  13. Vacuum Oil, Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill
  14. Vacuum Oil, Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill
  15. Vacuum Oil, Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill
  16. Vacuum Oil, Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill
  17. Vacuum Oil, Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill
  18. Vacuum Oil, Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill
  
  SYDNEY
  19. VH-UXB flying over Sydney
  20. Vacuum Oil Ball, Trocadero, ca. 1936-1940
• System of arrangement
  Alphabetical by place
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright.
  Copyright status:: This collection has multiple rights owners
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Collection includes commissioned works
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled on original box
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Original box label:
  Vacuum Oil Co.
• Date note
  
  Dated from photograph of the aeroplane VH-UXD Avro 642-IIM Eighteen in Box 023
  
  Reference:
  Ed Coates collection. http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ (accessed March 8, 2012)
  
  Dated from the Vacuum Oil tanker Yarraville which they owned 1928-1933
  
  Reference:
  Auke Visser's Other Esso Related Tankers Site. http://www.aukevisser.nl (accessed March 8, 2012)
• Name
  Plume (brand name)
  Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd.
  VH-UXD (aeroplane)
  Kingsford Smith Air Service Ltd.
  Yarraville (tanker)
  
• Subject
  Oil industry--Australia.
  
• Topic
  oil industry
  oil storage depots
  jetties & wharves
  balls & dances
  airfields
  bridges
  
• Place
  Brisbane (Qld.)
  Concord (N.S.W.)
  Trocadero (George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Pulpit Point (N.S.W.)
  Pyrmont (N.S.W.)
  Glebe Island (N.S.W.)
  Mascot (N.S.W.)
  North Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8805480

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