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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