9 - Lectures and Addresses - Lawrence Percival Coombes Guide to Records

Series 9 - Lectures and Addresses

Date Range	c. 1927 - c. 1981
Provenance	Lawrence Percival Coombes
Description	Lectures, addresses and talks given by L. P. Coombes.

Inventory Listing

9-1	'Lectures and addresses Vol.I'
	Nineteen lectures, contents listed and dated by LPC. Includes letters from N. Roberts, G.K. Batchelor. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 22 March 1939 - 10 January 1944 Quantity 2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00216 Box Number 17 Series 9
9-2	Sydney Lectures
	G.A. Taylor Memorial Lectures in Aeronautics, 29 April - 10 May 1940. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1940 Quantity 0.7 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00217 Box Number 17 Series 9
9-3	'Lectures and addresses Vol.II'
	Twenty further lectures as above. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 21 March 1945 - 30 April 1951 Quantity 2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00218 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-4	'Lectures and addresses Vol.III'
	Nine further lectures as above. Includes reprints from the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, February 1956, February 1957. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 30 July 1953 - 17 October 1958 Quantity 1.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00219 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-5	'Lectures and addresses Vol.IV'
	Incomplete, no contents page. Includes original of 12th British Commonwealth and Empire Lecture in Vol.III. Also includes letter from A.J. Moore. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 10 November 1959 - 2 November 1960 Quantity 0.7 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00220 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-6	Lectures 1960, 1962, 1963
	From folder entitled 'Lecture to RAeS and I. of E. Aero Branch'. Includes: Address to graduating students of the School of Mines, Ballarat, 19 July 1963; Address to the Summer School of Business Administration, University of Melbourne, 3 February 1960; Talk at symposium of the Department of Supply, 15 June 1960; Talk to Industrial Mobilisation course, 27 August 1963; Article for Sydney Morning Herald; Letter from K.R.Green; Sydney Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society - Fourth Kingsford Smith Memorial Lecture, 16 August 1962, invitation to dinner, agenda, seating plan, typed copy of lecture; Reprint from The Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, vol. 35, 1963. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1960 - 1963 Quantity 0.8 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00221 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-7	Miscellaneous lectures
	Article in the Production Engineer, vol. 39, September 1960, with 1959 James N. Kirby Paper, presented 10 November 1959; Handwritten talk to Institute of Civil Engineers; Handwritten address to the Centenary Dinner of the Adelaide Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Handwritten address to the Lions Club, 13 April 1967; Reprint of 12th British Commonwealth & Empire Lecture; Lecture to Royal Aeronautical Society and Institution of Engineers Annual Joint Meeting, 9 November 1959; 12th Commonwealth and Empire Lecture in the Aeroplane, 30 November 1956, with Dinner programme from the lecture, 22 November 1956. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 30 November 1956 - 13 April 1967 Quantity 1.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00222 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-8	'Australia Project Material'
	Mixed lectures: 'Australian Aeronautical Research'; Address to Ministers Symposium, 15 June 1960 (see also file 9/6); Retiring Chairman's address to the Melbourne Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 17 March 1955; Talk to RAAF, Staff College Canberra, 11 September 1963; Notes for DG/CA Kingsford Smith Lectures RAeS. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1955 - 1963 Quantity 0.7 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00223 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-9	Address to the Melbourne branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society
	'Looking back and the heyday of the seaplane', Overview of LPC's experiences until 1938. Topics covered: The First World War, Early aeronautical research, Seaplane research, The Schneider Trophy race, the seaplane tank at the RAE. References to: F. Hooton, McCudden, Kingsford Smith, Cyril Maddocks, C.A. Parsons, H.E. Wimperis, McKinnon Wood, H. Glauert, G.P. Douglas, G. Taylor, H.M. Garner, J. Schneider, H. Pixton, Slatter, B. Hinkler, Schofield, Webster, Worsley, Kirkhead, W.G.A. Perring, McPhail, H. Roxbee-Cox, G. Gardner, A. Pugsley, K.T. Spencer, J. Serby, N.E. Rowe, E.T. Jones, H. Constant, M. Morgan, H. Davies, A. Hall, A.A. Griffith, B. Lockspeiser, W. Tye. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 18 June 1964 Quantity 0.1 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00224 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-10	Centenary Dinner, Adelaide branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society
	Letter from R.E. Dudley, with guest list; Handwritten copy of speech, together with page of notes on fittings in a church and page of a communication from P.S. Langford, a sub-committee chairman. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range May 1966 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00225 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-11	Text of the Schneider Trophy illustrated talk
	Typed copy. Also attached, handwritten narrative on same topic as the typed version. Also, photo of F/ Lt. Kinkead, Schneider Trophy pilot, 'killed attempting speed record, October 1927'. (See also 14/12.) Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1927? - 1981, pre 1927 Quantity 0.3 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00226 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-12	The Schneider Trophy - video
	Talk by LPC illustrated by slides. The video shows only the slides, with voice of LPC. Produced for the Sport Aircraft Association of Australia. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1981 Quantity 3 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00227 Box Number 18 Series 9
9-13	The Schneider Trophy - video duplicate
	Duplicate of the file 9/12. Creator Lawrence Percival Coombes Date range 1981 Quantity 3 cm, Inventory Identifier COOM00228 Box Number 18 Series 9

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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