Item AK60 - McNaught beam engine in Hobart 1967

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AU TAS UTAS ITCCD 2017/3-AK60

Title

McNaught beam engine in Hobart 1967

Date(s)

  • 1967 (Creation)

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1 digital file

Context area

Name of creator

(1923-2004)

Biographical history

Hal Wyatt, born Hobart (1923-2004), a taxation officer, steam buff, restorer of historic machinery, sailor, and amateur photographer, took several thousand photographs in Tasmania over more than six decades. As a child, Hal Wyatt lived in several ... »

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Digitised by Colin Dennison

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Colour photograph of beam engine in Hobart, purportedly the oldest McNaught Beam Engine in existence, originally built 1854 in Paisley Scotland, by A.W. Smith and used by Risby’s Sawmill in Hobart until 1955; photograph possibly taken at Moonah public works depot

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Conditions governing access

Available for private research and study.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright held by the estate of Hal Wyatt. For permission to reproduce please contact UTAS SPARC special.collections@utas.edu.au

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