1934 resided 141 Cochrane St., Elsternwick, Victoria, Balaclava District, Australia 648
Apr 24 1935 resided at 149 Cochrane Street, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia
1936 resided Elsternwick, Victoria, Balaclava District, Australia 648
1937 resided Victoria, Balaclava District, Australia 648
1943 resided Camberwell, Victoria, KooYong District, Australia 648
1954 resided Hornsby, New South Wales, Robertson District, Australia 648
1958 resided Normanhurst, New South Wales, Mitchell District, Australia 648
1963 resided Normanhurst, New South Wales, Mitchell District, Australia 648
1968 resided Normanhurst, New South Wales, Berowra District, Australia 648
1977 resided 38 Malsbury Rd, Normanhurst, New South Wales, berowra Distr, Australia648
1980 resided Normanhurst, New South Wales, Berowra District, Australia 648
He was one of the countries leading train engineers in his day, and was in charge of building diesel locomotives for Clyde Engineering, and Tullock, Participated in building steam locomotives for the Victorian (state), Railways before that. He did his apprenticeship in Vic Rail and was apprentice of the year one year, for designing a new boiler for a new steam locomotive. He left the railways during the war, when he was classified as essential personal and not allowed to enlist. There was a court case in the nations capital, Canberra (city) ACT (state, actually classified as a territory because of lack of population needed to be classified as a state), before they would allow him to leave Vic Rail and move to Westinghouse Break, The barrister had to prove to the court that he was more valuable at the new position. At Westinghouse he rose to chief engineer and as the name indicates they made breaks for rolling stock.
At Cllyde and Tullock he was chief engineering inspector and went all over Australia. After overseeing the building of a locomotive, he and a fitter and turner to work under him, stayed for the four month warrantee period of each deasil. Because of multiple orders he spent 2 years in Perth (city) Western Australia (state), and 2 years in Alice Springs (city) Northern Territory [lac of population for statehood], 6 months in Darwin, Northern Territory. He also spent 6 months on two separate occasions on the Gold Coast (Our premiere tourist destination for Australian and Japanese Tourists.), to replace the seals on the Little Nerang Dam.
My mom could not stand heights and used to shudder at the sight of dad and the fitter and turner suspended above half way up the dam wall with a sheer drop onto the concrete spillway with no safety gear of harness on a suspended plank. We were very unsophisticated in those days and executives didn't have a union.
His main claim to fame and probably what he will go down in history for (if any one remembers), is that he was the engineering inspector in charge of building the first double decked electric train carriage (I don't think the original one had a driving compartment). I can still remember the phone call the day they first took it out of the shop and weighed it. Dad was so excited because it was one ton under expected weight and of course this meant it didn't need as much energy to move it. I was so young that all I could think of was that purchaser (NSW Railways), would expect a reduction in cost because of one ton of aluminium and stele not included in the car.