8 - Institute of Engineers, Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council, Aircraft Industry Investigation Panel - Lawrence Percival Coombes Guide to Records

Series 8 - Institute of Engineers, Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council, Aircraft Industry Investigation Panel

Date Range	1948 - 1978
Provenance	Lawrence Percival Coombes
Description	Reports and notes regarding aeronautical research and development in Australia.

Inventory Listing

8-1	Articles on Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council
	Includes: 'The CAARC Discussions', Aircraft, May 1948:11, Comment, uncredited; 'Research Dispersal', Aircraft, May 1948:18-19, Report, uncredited; LPC, 'CAARC - Its Origin and Value to Australia', Aircraft, November 1955:21-22, 68; R.W.G. Gandy, 'The Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council and its influence on research in the Commonwealth', reprinted from The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, November 1977. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range May 1948 - November 1977 Quantity 0.3 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00210 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-2	CAARC meeting reports
	Reports of meetings numbers 6, September 1959 and 7, April 1962; Programme and general information for seventh meeting. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range September 1959 - April 1962 Quantity 1.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00211 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-3	Aircraft Industry Investigation Panel, AIIP - I
	Photocopy of rough draft of notes on AIIP (not by LPC) attached to 'IC Panel on the Australian Aircraft Industry - Recommendations' and also to photocopy of material sent to T.Keeble, being submission to D.Charles by R.L.Abbott, and letter to A.Malcolm by same; Drafts of AIIP report 'The Future Role of the Australian Aircraft Manufacturing Industry', two dated, May 1975; Photocopy of article 'Relationships Between Government and Aeronautics - A Discussion', from The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 70, March 1966, three papers. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range December 1973 - March 1976 Quantity 1.1 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00212 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-4	Aircraft Industry Investigation Panel, AIIP - II
	Further drafts of above report, one dated April 1975; Photocopy of letter from L.G. Rowe to D.J. Killen; Copy of extracts from reports to AIIP, 1977, 1978; Final copy of the report, June 1975, to the Institution of Engineers. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range April 1975 - February 1978 Quantity 1.5 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00213 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-5	Research & Development in Australia Questionnaire
	Questionnaire sheets relating to Institution of Engineers' Survey about areas of possible future research. Survey done in collaboration with Dept. of Labour & National Service and covers broad range of topics. Includes explanatory sheet. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1963 Quantity 2.5 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00214 Box Number 17 Series 8
8-6	LPC's report on Research & Development in Australia
	Report authored by LPC assessing the suggestions of the R & D questionnaire. Published in The Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, June 1965. Includes newspaper clipping. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1965 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00215 Box Number 17 Series 8

Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, July 2008
With support from The Coombes Family, in particular Jo Johnson and Shirley Macleish, The Aeronautical Research Laboratory, DSTO Australia, J.R. Baxter , A.E. Billington, L.M. Bland, F.G. Blight, R.L. Brooks, R. Bruton, B.G. Catchpole, A. Chilton, D.C. Collis, B.L. Cumming, J.B. Dance, W.B. Duncan, A.B. Emslie, C. Frame, F.A. Fox, R.I. Garrod, D.G. Hurley, S.T.M. Johnstone, A.G. Jones, C.N. King, F.G. Lewis, E.S. Moody, R.V. Pavia, A.O. Payne, D. Secomb, D.G. Stewart, R.A.Wallis, H.L. Wain, J.C. Wisdom and And others who contributed to the L.P. Coombes Appeal
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