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Australasian Insurance CoInsurance Co
[later London & Lancashire Insurance]
building, 400 Collins St bCollins St, by Austin & Ellis,
18651865
Lyle Fowler photo, State Library of Victoria
Australasian Insurance Co 400 Collins StAustralasian Insurance Co, 400 Collins Stby Austin & Ellis, 1865, detail of ground floor plan
State Library of Victoria
AustralasianAustralasian Insurance Co, 400 Collins St
by Austin & Ellis, 1865
detail of cross-sectionsection
State Library of Victoria
'Blackwood‘, Penshurst by Butler & Ussher c 1890-1: detail of speaking tubeMiles Lewis
bell handles, ‘Barwon Park’, Winchelsea
by Davidson &by Davidson & Henderson, 1869
Miles Lewis
bell handle mechanismsbell handle mechanisms‘Barwon Park’, dismantled; ‘Black Rock House’, with tin cone
Miles Lewis
a bell crankMiles Lewis
bell cranksbell cranksafter R Melhuish, Sons & Co, Ironmongery and Electrical Supplies (R Melhuish, Sons & Co, London 1903), p 38
bellboards
Commercial Hotel (now 'Dysart
House'), Kempton, Tasmania 1842Tasmania, 1842
on rear wall.‘Barwon Park’,
Winchelsea, 1869
Miles Lewis
‘Yallum Park’, Penola, South Australia, by
Edward Twentyman: bells in the pantry
Mil L iMiles Lewis
'Wavenhoe', 161 Alma Rd, St Kilda, by Lloyd Tayler, 1869-70: bell detailsAmanda Mulligan
'Wavenhoe', 161 ,Alma Rd, St
Kilda, by Lloyd Tayler 1869-70:Tayler, 1869 70:
services plan
Miles Lewis after Amanda M lliganAmanda Mulligan
'Mintaro‘Mintarobell push
Miles Lewis
'P b t ' C d d ll d b G P h 1901'Purrumbete', near Camperdown, remodelled by Guyon Purchas 1901 relocated electric bellboard in the kitchen
Miles Lewis
B ll’ d t 228Ball’s drapery store, 228-340 Swan St, southwest
corner of Church St, Richmond, originally
?1860s
in a pre-1900 postcard of Swan St looking west across Church Streetacross Church Street
modern view of the older part facing Church Stpart facing Church St.
Postcard, Meade Album 15, p 26c, SLV, before 1900; Miles Lewis
the Lamson Cash Railway at Ball’s store Richmondthe Lamson Cash Railway at Ball s store, Richmondthe cashier's desk installed for it; and detail above the desk
Miles Lewis
the Lamson Cash Railway at Ball’s store, Richmonddetail above central desk; a terminus
Miles Lewis
Hattam's Store, 383 Glenhuntly Rd, Caulfield: Lamson railway at the cashier's deskMiles Lewis
Beehive Stores, Pall Mall, ,Bendigo:
pneumatic tube station
Miles Lewis
Beehive Stores: interior, with pneumatic tubesMiles Lewis
Beehive StoresBeehive Storesa bank of pneumatic tubes and a tube terminus
Miles Lewis
Commercial Travellers
AssociationAssociation318-324
Flinders St,Flinders St, by H W & F B
Tompkins, 1912-13
Miles Lewis
Commercial Travellers
AssociationAssociation318-324
Flinders St,Flinders St, by H W & F B
Tompkins, 1912-13
a reticulated vacuum cleaning
point
Miles Lewis
'Melbourne Gas Works as at Jan.1855' by J FallonState Library of Victoria H24159State Library of Victoria H24159
the Improved Gas Apparatus of W C Holmes & Co, Huddersfieldthe Improved Gas Apparatus of W C Holmes & Co, HuddersfieldJ L Steinhardt, The Illustrated Guide to the Manufacturers, Engineers, and Merchants of England, Scotland,
Ireland and Wales (London 1869), p 436
‘Dhurringhile’, central Victoria, by Lloyd Tayler & Wyatt, 1876-7detail of a lithograph after a painting by William Tibbits (gas
plant at left)
gasalier & sconces or
brackets, c 1880
James McEwan & Co, James M'Ewan & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Furnishing and General
IronmongeryIronmongery(Melbourne, no date
[1880s]), p 115
'Yallum Park', Penola, South Australia, by
Edward TwentymanEdward Twentyman, 1878-80
sconce or bracket gas light on the verandahlight on the verandah
Miles Lewis
sliding gasalier, c 18801880
James McEwan & Co, James M'Ewan & Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Furnishing and General
Ironmongery (Melbourne, no date [1880s]) p 97no date [1880s]), p 97
gasaliers at Yallum Park: drawing room & bedroomMiles Lewis
ventilating sunlights by J H Pickup & Co, Ltd, EnglandJ E Sears [ed], The Contractors' Compendium and Complete Catalogue (8th ed,
Compendium Publishing, London, 1894), p 186
I d t i l G ll Bi i h M & A t G ll h i b thIndustrial Gallery, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery showing sun burners; the principle of the sun burnerfrom a postcard; Miles Lewis
'Th A i ' P t h R d M t ill Ad l id i i ll 1875 7'The Acacias', Portrush Road, Marryatville, Adelaide, originally c 1875-7,the ballroom, probably part of the extension by Thomas English in 1879
Miles Lewis
‘The Acacias’: detail of the sun burnersMiles Lewis
the gas bath boiler of Phillips & Son, LondonJ Steinhardt, The Illustrated Guide to the Manufacturers, Engineers, and
Merchants of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (London 1869), p 465
gas bath heatergas bath heater by S E Jeans of St Kilda, 1880St Kilda, 1880
Read & Holliday’s automatic generatorRead & Holliday s automatic generatorthe ‘Kilgour’ Carbide Feed Acetylene generator, sold by the Sun
Acetylene Company of South Melbourne J M Somerville, ‘Section XIII – Gas-Producing Apparatus for the Illumination of Country Houses’, in G L Sutcliffe [ed], The Principles and Practice of Modern House Construction, &c (new ed, 6 vols, Gresham
Publishing Company, London 1909 [1900]), V, p 318; R J Haddon, Australian Architecture (George Robertson, Melbourne, no date [c 1908]), p xlvi
B dt'Brandt's Patent 'B.B.' Automatic
Acetylene Gas Generator [patent no
7361]
C E Mayes, The Australian Builders &
Contractors' PriceContractors Price Book (8th ed, Sydney 1914),
advertisement p 23
acetylene burnersBray’s ‘Luta’ burner (left); unnamed burner with a steatite top and
wide slit, and the resultant flame (centre and right)J M Somerville ‘Section XIII Gas Producing Apparatus for the Illumination of Country Houses’ in G LJ M Somerville, Section XIII – Gas-Producing Apparatus for the Illumination of Country Houses , in G L Sutcliffe [ed], The Principles and Practice of Modern House Construction, &c (new ed, 6 vols, Gresham
Publishing Company, London 1909 [1900]), V, p 319
th h l d i ht f th Q i k' i l tthe gas house, poles and weight of the Quirk's air gas plant installed in 1915, 'Greenmount', near Mackay, Queensland
Mackay Historical Society and Museum Incorporated
Brandt's Patent 'Atmoslite' Safety Air Gas MachineAir Gas Machine
[registered no 10668]
C E Mayes, The Australian Builders &
Contractors' Price BookContractors Price Book(8th ed, Sydney 1914),
advertisement p 23
Wizard lighting cylinder and pendant at ‘The Hermitage’, Barnawartha, VictoriaMiles Lewis
GWizard and Gloria lighting plants
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electricityelectricityelectricityelectricity
incandescent electrical bulbs, c 1884Hammond, The Electric Light in Our Homes (London 1884).
electrical light fittings used in Sydney 1891g g y yAustralasian Builder and Contractor's News, 3 October 1891
light switchesg
R Melhuish Sons & Co, Ironmongery and
Electrical Supplies(London 1903), p 304
reproductionreproduction light switches, ‘Purrumbute’,Purrumbute , Victoria, 1901
Miles Lewis
new electrical devices advertised by Fred S Lee of Sydney in 1914the H & H push-button switch; flush socket & plug; ceiling pull switch
C E Mayes, The Australian Builders & Contractors' Price Book [8th ed, Sydney 1914], advertisement p 25
electric cable casingsR Melhuish Sons & Co, Ironmongery and Electrical Supplies (London 1903), p 299
house fire engineengine
George Farmiloe & Sons General& Sons, General
Catalogue(George Farmiloe & Sons London& Sons, London
1887), p 307
Dick's portableDick s portable fire engine
J L Steinhardt, The Ill t t d G id t thIllustrated Guide to the
Manufacturers, Engineers, and
Merchants of England, S tl d I l d dScotland, Ireland and
Wales (London 1869), p 413
Henry S Parmalee's
sprinkler, mark I, with fusible link, patented in thepatented in the
USA, 1874
Elliott, Technics and Architecture, p 373
automatic fire door & Grinnell Sensitive Automatic Sprinklerautomatic fire door & Grinnell Sensitive Automatic Sprinkler
C H Woodbury, The Fire Protection of Mills; and Construction of Mill Floors, &c (New York 1882), pp 59, 87), pp ,
'Waterloo' standard automatic sliding fire door, 1931W L Richardson [ed], Ramsay's Architectural Catalogue (Melbourne 1931), p 148
Grinnell soldered sprinkler head & quartzoid sprinkler head, sold by Wormwald Bros in Australia, 1931, y ,
W L Richardson [ed], Ramsay's Architectural Catalogue (Melbourne 1931), p 308
direct acting hydraulic lift
hydraulic crane
Australasian Ironmonger I 7 (1Ironmonger, I, 7 (1 October 1886), p x
Balint, Howells & S thSmyth,
Warehouses and Wool Stores p 130
L Stevenson & Sons warehouse, Flinders Lane, Melbourne by F M White, 1865Alexander Sutherland [ed], Victoria and its Metropolis Past and Present (2 vols 1888), II, p 577
Yorkshire Brewery tower, Waterloo StreetWaterloo Street,
Collingwood, by James Wood, 1876, with hydraulic lift: 1890 & modern viewslift: 1890 & modern views
Bernard Barrett, The Inner Suburbs: theBernard Barrett, The Inner Suburbs: the Evolution of an Industrial Area (Carlton
[Victoria] 1971), p 96; Miles Lewis
direct and indirect action
hydraulic lifts of the London
Hydraulic PowerHydraulic Power Company
Sears, The Architect's Compendium (LondonCompendium (London
1907), p 552
indirect action hydraulic lift
machinery by J J Patterson of Pitt
St t S d 1881Street, Sydney 1881
Mayes, The Australian Builder's Price Book (Sydney
1891) p 2461891), p 246
Otis lifts of 1889Otis lifts of 1889Michael Cannon, Land Boom and Bust (Melbourne 1972), p 9
Building, Engineering and Mining Journal, 13 July 1889, supplement
Felton Building, 7-11 Queen Street, probably by F M White 1886Miles Lewis
Lombard Building, 13-17 Queen St, by
Reed, Henderson &Henderson &
Smart, 1888-90
Miles LewisMiles Lewis
Prell's Building at 34 Queen Street by F M White 1887 8Prell s Building at 34 Queen Street, by F M White, 1887-8Building, Engineering and Mining Journal, 15 October 1888; SLV H34,146
the two Prell's Buildings at Queen Street and Flinders Lanethe two Prell's Buildings at Queen Street and Flinders LaneState Library of Victoria H28,223
P ll' B ildi t 379Prell's Building at 379-383 Collins Street (60-70
Queen Street) by F MQueen Street), by F M White & Son, c 1887-8
State Library of Victoria H34,146
Federal Coffee Palace, 553 Collins St, by Ellerker & Kilburn with William PittWallach's Furnishing Warehouse, Elizabeth Street, by Twentyman & Askew, 1887
J E M Vincent, The Australian Irrigation Colonies on the River Murray in Victoria and South Australia(Chaffey Brothers, London, no date [?c 1887]), pp 17, ix
the Australian Building, by
Oakden, Addison & Kemp with JohnKemp with John Beswicke, 1889
A t l i B ild &Australasian Builder & Contractor's News, 30
December 1889
the Australian Buildingg
lift car interiors, 1880s and 1890sCannon, Land Boom and Bust, p 9; Blainey, Johns and Waygood, p 20
R Wa good & Co electric passenger lift U KR Waygood & Co electric passenger lift, U K.
Sears, The Architect's Compendium, 1907, p 567
lift of 1929 in the Melbourne
Tramway and Omnibus
B ildi 669Building, 669 Bourke Street
Rohan Storey, 'Going Up! A look at the History of
Lifts in Melbourne', Trust News February 1994 p 13News, February 1994, p 13