Date Range | 1942 - 1966, mainly post 1954 |
Quantity | 21 cm, 20 files |
Provenance | Ronald William Cumming |
Description | Patent applications, rejections, correspondence and specifications, correspondence with E.W. Pike (BOAC), correspondence with CSIRO, correspondence with Department of Civil Aviation, correspondence from J.C. Lane, records relating to Cumming's application to study at the University of Michigan, job and fellowship applications, Department of Civil Aviation Aeronautical Research Laboratories Steering Committee Minutes, departmental memoranda and circulars, scientific officer salary comparisons and determinations, management conference papers. |
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Inventory Listing
CUMM00001
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R.W.C. personal file
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Commonwealth Fund fellowship application copy, higher duties payment advice, job application and drafts including publications list, photograph Division Aeronautics Christmas Eve 1942, German reprint, gazette promotion notice, training bond document, University of Michigan graduate study expenses, ARL circulars, lecture flyers and correspondence, 1960 London visit itinerary, 1961 USA visit expenses, Taxation Office departure certificates, promotion appeal, University of Sydney certification of engineering degree, unlabelled photograph of social event with family? groupings, staff survey copy, 1963 UK visit itinerary and expenses.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1942 - 1963, mainly post 1955
Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, Memoranda, Loose Notes, Published Papers or Articles, Loose Photographic Prints and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier CUMM00001
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00002
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Administration
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Aeronautical Research Laboratories and Department of Supply circulars and memoranda, Annual Report Human Engineering 1959-1960, Annual Report Aeronautical Research Laboratories 1958.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1951 - 1964
Quantity 2.5 cm, 1 file
Formats Memoranda
Inventory Identifier CUMM00002
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00003
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Course in USA for R.W.C.
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Commonwealth Fund selection and tenure criteria, Commonwealth Fund application papers and correspondence, correspondence to and from the University of Michigan re program of study, correspondence re departmental support for study, course staff and attendees lists.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1958 - 1959
Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Public Relations Material
Inventory Identifier CUMM00003
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00004
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Patents
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Copy UK patent specification no. 20628/43 - improvements in logging scales suitable for use in radio-receivers.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1945
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Specifications
Inventory Identifier CUMM00004
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00005
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Management conference
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Department of Supply organization chart September 1955, programme, notes and discussion records for Departmental Organisation and Management Conference 1956, timetable and speakers list for Management Seminar 1962. CSIRO Canteen Report 1955-1956.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1955 - 1962, mainly 1956
Quantity 1.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Loose Notes and Charts
Inventory Identifier CUMM00005
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00006
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Australian Standards Association
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Minutes for first meeting of Exploratory Panel on Human Factors Engineering, meeting advice.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1963
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats Memoranda and Minutes and Agendas
Inventory Identifier CUMM00006
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00007
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CSIRO
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Correspondence from Industrial Research Liaison Section, CSIRO and with Dr R.K. Macpherson, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, draft proposal for conducting research in human factors in engineering situations, working notes, news clipping.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1961
Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Drafts, News Clippings and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier CUMM00007
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00008
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Correspondence E.W. Pike
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Correspondence to and from E. W. Pike, Control & Navigation Superintendent later Deputy Flight Services Manager, British Overseas Airways Corporation. Letter enclosures include pilot reports and surveys.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1957 - 1959
Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Reports
Inventory Identifier CUMM00008
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00009
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S.O. salaries
Scientific officer salaries.
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Correspondence between J.R. Baxter, Aeronautical Research Laboratories and Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia, Public Service Arbitrator determination 66/1963 anomaly adjustment, tables reporting outside experience of Principal Scientific Officer staff in Defence Standards Laboratories and Aeronautical Research Laboratories, calculations of variation of time in grade, departmental staff complement and vacancy statistics, analysis of published papers, vacant positions advertised, comparative salaries across professional categories, Public Service Arbitrator determination 97/1964 salary adjustments.
Creator J.R. Baxter
Date range 1960 - 1964
Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Memoranda, Loose Notes, Tables of data and Calculations
Inventory Identifier CUMM00009
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00010
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Sundry duplicates
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Copies of outgoing and incoming correspondence re precision visual glidepath, double bar ground aid, technical drawings.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1958
Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Drawings
Inventory Identifier CUMM00010
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00011
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D.C.A. A.R.L. Steering Committee
Department of Civil Aviation Aeronautical Research Laboratories Steering Committee.
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Committee terms of reference, meeting minutes, reports of DCA work 1961 - 1962, 1963-1964, notes, memoranda re staffing and work programmes of Human Engineering Group.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1959 - 1966
Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Memoranda, Minutes and Agendas and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier CUMM00011
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00012
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Reports - requests and acknowledgements
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Letters of request for publications referred to by R W Cumming and acknowledgments of same.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1961 - 1965
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier CUMM00012
Box Number 1
Series 1
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CUMM00013
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Unlabelled
Patents.
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Correspondence, memorandum re patent application tee visual glide path, copy provisional specification for low visibility simulation screen and suggested amendments.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1960 - 1964
Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Memoranda and Specifications
Inventory Identifier CUMM00013
Box Number 2
Series 1
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CUMM00014
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Unlabelled
Specifications of patent applications.
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UK patent 38561/57 - means for improved glide path guidance to aircraft pilots on approach to landing, Canadian patent 741,847 - means for improved glide path guidance to aircraft pilots on approach to landing, USA patent 700,028 - means for improved glide path guidance to aircraft pilots on approach to landing, Australian patent 33053/57 - light for aircraft runways and the like, USA patent 774,643 - light for aircraft runways and the like, Canadian patent 762,580 - light for aircraft runways and the like, UK patent 36920/58 - light for aircraft runways and the like.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1957 - 1958
Quantity 1.3 cm, 1 file
Formats Specifications
Inventory Identifier CUMM00014
Box Number 2
Series 1
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CUMM00015
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Unlabelled
Patent applications and renewals.
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Gridded photograph of aeroplane, correspondence re US patent application 667, 644 - airborne approach aid, correspondence and memoranda re patent renewals. Correspondence, photograph and draft provisional specification for spiral groove altimeter, technical drawings.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1959 - 1965
Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Memoranda, Loose Photographic Prints, Photocopied Documents and Drawings
Inventory Identifier CUMM00015
Box Number 2
Series 1
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CUMM00016
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Unlabelled
TVG patent.
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Draft specification and correspondence re tee visual glidepath patent.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1961 - 1964
Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Specifications
Inventory Identifier CUMM00016
Box Number 2
Series 1
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CUMM00017
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Unlabelled
Patents.
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Applications for patent for light for aircraft runways and the like, associated correspondence, patent rejections, related existing patents.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1956 - 1958
Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, Specifications and Drawings
Inventory Identifier CUMM00017
Box Number 2
Series 1
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CUMM00018
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Expenses in U.S.A. J.R.B. 1962
Expenses in U.S.A. for J.R. Baxter, Senior Scientific Officer, Aeronautical Research Laboratories 1962.
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Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1960 - 1963
Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Memoranda
Inventory Identifier CUMM00018
Box Number 2
Series 1
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CUMM00019
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Correspondence J.C. Lane overseas
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Incoming correspondence from Dr John Lane to Cumming and Baxter.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1958 - 1960
Quantity 0.2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier CUMM00019
Box Number 2
Series 1
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CUMM00020
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Correspondence D.C.A. - A.R.L.
Correspondence Department of Civil Aviation - Aeronautical Research Laboratories.
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Incoming and outgoing correspondence between DCA and Cumming or Baxter.
Creator Ronald William Cumming
Date range 1957 - 1964
Quantity 0.3 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier CUMM00020
Box Number 2
Series 1
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