Photographer: Darge, Melbourne
Central banner reads 'Victorian Light Car Club / Finish / 100 miles road race'.
Photographer: Roland Bishop and Company, Collins Street, Melbourne
Photographer: WE Johnson, Wangaratta
Photographer: Edwin G Adamson, Richmond
Photographer: Edwin G Adamson, Richmond
Photographer: Edwin G Adamson, Richmond
Includes 1927 Chrysler.
Photographer: Darge, Melbourne
Central banner reads 'Victorian Light Car Club / Finish / 100 miles road race'.
This deposit includes articles and memorandum of association, financial records, correspondence, advertising, printed material and photographs. The photographs include images of early bicycle, motorcycle and car races including the Melbourne to Sydney Road Contest 1905, the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria Alpine Contest 1924, the Senior Time Trial motorcycle race 1926, the Tour de France 1927-30, the Victorian Light Car Club 100 mile road race 1928 on Phillip Island (the first 'Grand Prix' in Victoria), the Victorian Centenary Thousand bicycle race 1934, as well as photographs of early 20th century cars, road trains and tractors, and Dunlop factories and products such as rubber conveyor belts used in mines and rubber flooring in shops and offices.
Dunlop Australia LimitedContains pulls of Kelly, Mining, Rubber Goods, Wringer-Roller, Heels and Garden Hoses blocks.
Rubber goods, sporting, heels, tyres, &c.
Rubber goods, sporting and heels.
Includes advertisements for balls, heels, matting, &c.
Includes draft and final printed versions of this booklet for Dunlop employees.
Inscribed as belonging to HB James.
Inscribed as belonging to HB James.
Includes photographs of start and race in progress, cars such as De Dion Bouton, Mercedes-Benz, Argyll and Packard and drivers including Sir Russell Grimwade, Syd Day, Harley Tarrant, George Moffat, and Cecil De Fraga.
Includes photographs of rubber conveyor belts in BHP mines at Broken Hill and Hummocky Hill, Breises and Pioneer mine in Tasmania, Cairns timber mills, Mt Morgan mines in Queensland, Sulphide Corporation mines at Broken Hill and Cockle Creek, salt works in Geelong, loading facilities in Devonport, Golden Horseshoe mine in Boulder, and other Western Australian mines, photographs of rubber flooring in various banks and shops in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide including the Maple Leaf Cafe in Adelaide and Myers in Melbourne, and photographs of the workrooms of the Dunlop factory in Melbourne.
Banner reads ' The Victorian Light Car Club / Finish / 100? miles road race' which suggests the event is the Australian Grand Prix and the location is Phillip Island.
See Geoffrey Blainey, Jumping over the Wheel, p.94.
Photographer: Edwin G Adamson, Richmond
Photographer: Darge, Melbourne
Photographer: Sutcliffe Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Photographer: Darge, Melbourne
Photographer: Sutcliffe Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Photographer: Sutcliffe Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Photographer: Darge, Melbourne
Photographer: Darge, Melbourne
Photographer: Darge, Melbourne
Photographer: Sutcliffe Pty Ltd, Melbourne
Photographer: Sutcliffe Pty Ltd, Melbourne