Radio - Equipment and supplies

Date: 1939-1959

From: Kimble, Thomas Martin, 1918-2003: Photographs relating to Collier & Beale Ltd, and views of Hawaii and Upper hutt

Reference: PAColl-7989

Description: Photographs relating to Collier & Beale Ltd, depicting staff members and radio equipment made by the firm during the 1940s and 1950s. Of the two speech scramblers depicted, one was made for General Macarthur and the other for the US Marine Corps for their Washington office and Pacific Headquarters. One group of photographs records a visit to the factory by P O S Skoglund, Minister of Education, in 1959, and another shows Thomas Kimble at the annual convention of the Aviation Industry Association, 1958. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives - MS-Group-1194, Kimble, Thomas Martin, 1918-2003 : Papers relating to PEACESAT.

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Owen, Dylan, 1958-

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1930s-01

Description: Card from a radio enthusiast to others, with a poem in abbreviated language. There is space to put in the specifications of Amp. snatcher, Mi amp maker, Dx worked. Other Titles - Your card will find me , say you night, through phones Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card, 95 x 167 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dylan Owen, Wellington, in 2006.

Date: [ca 5 June 1976]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1976/2048-F

Description: Ken Clements operating the ship-to-shore radio in the control room of the Wellington Sea Rescue Service in Evans Bay. Photographed circa 5 June 1976 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1927

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Johns Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1927-01

Description: Illustrated list of items for sale, including accumulators, batteries, crystal detectors and crystals, dials and knobs, fuses, loudspeakers, potentiometers, terminals, transformers, tools, torches, electrical fittings. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 64 pages, each 234 x 154 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Transferred from Manuscripts A2001-112 in 2002..

Date: 1945-1946

By: Green, W H, active 1944-1945

Reference: MS-Papers-10440

Description: Correspondence between Green and W Marks of the Radio Corporation of New Zealand regarding the importing of radio, recording and some television equipment during a time of rapid technical development and strict import controls. Includes lists and evaluations of radio equipment, as well as prices, manufacturers and availability. Source of title - Supplied Mr Green was an agent of Mr Marks' company, the Radio Corporation of New Zealand, and visited the United Kingdom in 1946 to invetigate and purchase new radio, recording and television technology. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 photographic album - PA Coll: 1507.

Date: [ca 1890-1945]

From: Estate of W Wilson :Photographs of the Wilson family and Eketahuna

By: Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977; NZ Camera-Craft Company; Valerie Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931

Reference: PAColl-0436-1

Description: School photographs, one from Eketahuna District High School 1938; roll of honour for Eketahuna District High School; G Dawson and M(?) Ramsay in their navy uniforms 28th Feburary 1940; Mr Hornblow and Mrs Dickson at a formal dinner; the Queen Mother at a gala event on the upper gallery of a theatre; the Queen Mother with Bishop Owen; Mrs Wilson and Miss C M Wilson in front of radio equipment; John Dawson's graduation photograph; Mr Wilson leaving his house in a top hat; the post office at Eketahuna before 1934; two photographs of William Muir Wilson's grave; a group photograph of nine men in business dress (uncaptioned); and a postcard of Eketahuna in the snow. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-065853 to 065863 Quantity: 28 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: 1930 - 1932

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: A & W McCarthy (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1931-01

Description: Lists and illustrates radios and their components, motors, generators, telegraph keys, torches and spotlight, electric lamps, light switches, model trains and aeroplanes, carpentry tools. Dated from an advertisement for the 1931 NZ Radio handbook annual on page 94. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 128 pages, 217 x 138 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

By: Johns Ltd; Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014; Atkinson's Books (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-ELECTRIC-Johns

Description: Annual price lists and illustrated catalogues Two copies of 1932-33 Quantity: 4 sales catalogues. Physical Description: Letterpress in volumes each approximately 80 pages, 240 x 180 mm.

Date: 1998

By: Gray, Godfrey, 1941-

Reference: MS-Group-0796

Description: Contains two copies (one indexed) of Godfrey Gray's recollections of his career in New Zealand broadcasting from 1957-1991 and recollections of his childhood growing up in Wellington titled `A Capital childhood: Growing up in post-war Wellington' Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr G Gray, Wellington, Jul 1998

Date: [ca 30 November 1993]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Pigney, Ray, active 1988

Reference: EP/1993/4246-F

Description: The transponder on the Wellington Airport Fire Service rescue craft. Photographed circa 30 November 1993 by Evening Post staff photographer Ray Pigney. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: ca 1962

By: DSIR Antarctic Division (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4547

Description: Two aerial views of the huts at Scott Base with the communications masts visible behind them. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1937

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: Lankshear Printing Company Ltd; Thomas Ballinger and Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-RADIO-1937-01

Description: Illustrated sales catalogue of radio parts, supplies, testing equipment, tubes, amateur equipment, set-builders' kits. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 20 pages, each 278 x 215 mm.

Date: [ca 6 November 1971]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1971/5525-F

Description: John Batten uses the radio in the headquarters of the Wellington Sea Rescue Service in Evans Bay. Photographed circa 6 November 1971 by an unidentified Evening Post staff. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1937

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

By: F J W Fear (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1937-01

Description: Lists and illustrates radios, aerial equipment, batteries, chokes, condensers, cords, dials, cycles and cycle accessories, headphones, insulators, lights, plugs, resistors, switches, transformers, valve equipment, wire. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 68 pages, 248 x 188 mm.

Date: 1960-1969

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1960s

Description: Includes: 1960s: His Master's Voice. For your listening pleasure, the "Gypsy" mantel radio, an HMV quality product. Card [1960s] 2XB Masterton. Listen to "H.M.S. Ulysses" (stirring story of the sea), sponsored by Regency Jewellers Ltd [Card. 1960s] 1960: Fleetwood Radios. Warranty [1960] Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Limited. Philips Radiogram 601 [ca 1960]. Flier New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Opportunities in the Engineering and Technical Branch. 1960 New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Positions and prospects. 1960 1961: Blaupunkt-Werke GMBH Hildesheim. Blue Spot Radio. Sales booklet [1961] 1967: NZBC radio drama Jan-Mar. 1967. Programme / pamphlet (2 copies) 1968: NZBC. The YC programme; musical and spoken highlights for the period March - November 1968 New Zealand Post Office. First-class certificate in radiotechnology. Certificate issued to Murray Francis Vincent. 28 March 1968 1969: NZBC radio drama July-Sep. 1969. Programme / pamphlet New Zealand Technical Correspondence Institute. Electrical Engineering Department. Course circular for radio [1969] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlet, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1950-1959

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1950s

Description: Includes: 1950s: Columbus. The calibrated shortwave dial is the fastest way of tuning overseas stations. [1950s?]. Flier Philips Electrical Industries of New Zealand Ltd: Philips radioplayer 545; the double duty portable operates from batteries and mains [Flyer. 1950s] Telesound Radio (Wn) Ltd. Proprietor Frank Salisbury. Representative C C Pepperell, Pukerua Bay. Business card 1950: Columbus Radio. Instruction book. A.C. models. Radio Corporation of New Zealand Ltd [1950?] PYE. This receiver has a "copperplate printed circuit". You can rely on Pye. Label with string loop 1953: New Zealand Broadcasting Service: Broadcasting ball. Souvenir programme 1953. Printed by A D Organ Ltd, 104-110 Hobson St., Auckland C.1. New Zealand Radio Traders' Federation. 1953 official radio trade-in handbook 1956: Columbus Radio Centres. Start each day this happy way, with a Columbus "clock controlled" radio. [1956]. Yellow flier 1958: Souvenir programme. 21 Today. 3ZB birthday, Saturday 27th September 1958. 1959: New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Opportunities in the Engineering and Technical Branch. [1959] New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Positions and prospects. [1959] Philips Carnegie Hall HI-Z concert no. 21.19 March 1959. Programme Philips Carnegie Hall HI-Z concert no. 23.30 April 1959. Programme Philips Carnegie Hall HI-Z concert no. 36.12 November1959. Programme Philips Carnegie Hall HI-Z concert no. 38. Christmas edition. 10 December 1959. Programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlet, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1939-1959 - 1984

By: Kimble, Thomas Martin, 1918-2003

Reference: ATL-Group-00581

Description: Photographs relating to Collier & Beale Ltd, depicting staff members and radio equipment made by the firm during the 1940s and 1950s. The collection also includes slides taken in Hawaii and Upper Hutt in 1984. Title supplied by Library. Many of the transmitters depicted were made during World War Two; some were commissioned by the American military. Quantity: 68 b&w original photographic print(s). 25 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1930-1939

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1930s

Description: Includes: 1930/1940s: Radio log chart [1930-1940s] The spirit of service. Card shows female classical figure floating between transmission towers, with electricity bolts emanating from her hands [1930s?] 1930s: "The friendly road" Sunday sessions. Visitors identification form New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters :ZL3BT. At ... on .... Chin wag ... The spider web is ... The "bring 'em in" is ... The "push-em-out" is ... This tamahine wants you to QSL _ _ Pse? 97 Fitzgerald Avenue, Christchurch New Zealand. NZART Esme Herrick YL.OP. [Card. 1930-1936] ZL3CT. Ur crd wl find me at 113 Milton Street, Christchurch, New Zealand ... Sa O.M. u remember our QSO of ... 193.., at ... NZMT. The nite was full of QRM ... Vy etc 73 fr J R Tabley. [Printed by] Turners Ltd [1930s] 1931: A & W McCarthy (Firm): McCarthy's radio catalogue no 85; radio parts and sets, electric novelties, tools, etc. [ca 1931] Bristol Piano Company Ltd: Greatest value in radio history, the "New Fisk Series" Radiola with tone control. Buy yours on terms from The Bristol Piano Co. Ltd, specialists in the world's greatest radio. Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and branches [1931] Flier (2 copies) Johns Ltd, Auckland's oldest radio firm. Radio, Electrical, Tools, Cycles, Gramophones, etx. May 1931. Sales catalogue. Visit the 1931 Radio Exhibition and hear the Maori Entertainers at the Town Hall Wellington, 10-13 June [1931]. Bookmark 1933: New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters. Marlborough Branch. Invitation to first annual dance. St Patrick's Hall. 9 August 1933. Station 2ZW Broadcasting Choir. Wellington New Zealand, December 3rd 1933. Souvenir programme 1936: Radio (1936) Ltd. Radio log chart [1936?] 1936-1937: [Five DX cards from radio stations 1936-37] - Includes DX cards from: 3ZR Greymouth (1936); 2ZB Wellington (1937); 2YA Wellington (1937); 3YA Christchurch (1937); and Radionations Geneva (1937) 1937: F.J.W. Fear & Co :1937 radio, cycles, sewing machines, electrical appliances. 1937 (2 copies) New Zealand Parliament. Floor of the House. Admission ticket for C Brown esq for Parliamentary Broadcasting purposes, session 1937 1938: ZL2QL Xmitter. Wellington, New Zealand. Lowry Bay. Radio KAIAF WKO. 11th Feb 1938 at 0215 N.Z.S.T. Ur QSL will be appreciated OM. Laurie A Lawson, opr. Norm Hopper, print. 39 Dublin St, Wanganui, NZ [Card. 1938] 1939: The King's message / M L Haskins [1939] Otaki Radio & Electric Co. (John Potts). Mullard, England's premier radio. Sales catalogue [1939] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlet, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1940-1949

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-1940s

Description: Includes: 1930-1950s: Rabone's Radio Ltd. Ultimate, Fleetwood, Gulbransen. Radio log chart. Rabone's Radio Ltd., Market Place. Red card 1940: 4ZB Radio Revels. (With 4ZB Orchestra, Brookes 4ZB Accordeon Band, 4ZB Ballet trained by Miss Constance Potts; Airini Grennell, Don Donaldson, "Spud" Murphy, Jessie McLennan, Joyce Hamer). His Majesty's Theatre, August [1940]. Programme 1941: The Mutiny of the Bounty, A B.A.P. production featuring Harvey Adams as Captain Bligh. On stations 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, 4ZB 7.30 each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night. Sponsored by the makers of Rinso [ca 1941]. Pamphlet New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Department. Radio receiving licence. No. 608184 stamped 29 January 1941; to expire 31 July 1941 [issued to Ronald C Meggett] 1943: [Greeting card]. Season's greetings from ZLP (Naval) [and] ZLW (Commercial) wireless station, Wellington [ca 1943] The Stamp Shop (Providence, R.I.): Commemorating establishment of PITC the voice of the South Pacific on Pitcairn Island settled by the mutinous crew of H.M.S. Bounty [Envelope postmarked 1943] 1944-1947: New Zealand wireless sets & stations No. ZC.1, Mk.II. Parts list. WSB 3-C [1944-1947?] New Zealand wireless set No ZC.1, Mk.II. Working instructions. Part I. General description and operation. First-line maintenance. WSB 3-A. [1944-1947?] 1948: Columbus Radio: New Zealand broadcasting stations (effective September 1st, 1948}. In your home - this radio will be a boon! Columbus battery / electric model 402 [1948] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and pamphlet, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1924-1927

By: Fraser, Grahame (Dr), active 1950s-2000s

Reference: PA1-o-1765

Description: Photograph album of New Zealand amateur radio stations in the 1920s compiled by an unidentified person There are two parts to this album, each having different coloured and sized pages. The first part includes photographs of amateur radio stations with the main focus on the operating equipment and displays of printed call signs. The call signs for the radio stations depicted are 4AO. OZ-2XB. 2BL (1924). Z-4AR. 2GA. Z-1AO. 1AZ. 2GJ. Z-2AV. One photograph is not of amateur radio equipment. The call sign for this is VLW and is the sign for the government radio station initially, in 1911, located in the General Post office in Wellington, and then moved to the station on Tinakori Hill that opened in 1912. Another group of photographs in this section of the album show equipment on display, possibly in the electrical and engineering laboratories at the University of Canterbury. These photographs have no identifying call signs, and the architectural details seem to relate to those in a group of photographs in the second part of the album. Also included is a view of a collapsed aerial pylon at the goverment radio station on Tinakori Hill, Wellington, and two views of the radio station under construction on Mount Victoria, Wellington, that was used by 2YA. There are three photographs of people in this section of the album, none of whom are identified. The second part of the album includes photographs of scientific apparatus and a wooden model relating to the phenomenon called Newton's rings. There are also photographs recording a display of wireless equipment in what are probably the University of Canterbury's electrical and engineering laboritories. This display was for a meeting of the Astronomical society in 1927. There are only two dates recorded in the album - 1924 and 1927. These dates are probably pretty accurate in relation to the call signs for stations depicted in the photographs. Regulations relating to amateur radio stations in New Zealand came into force in January 1923. These divided the country into four radio districts with the prefix numbers one to four for Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Thus if a radio call sign had the prefix number 4 as in 4AO it meant that it was located in Dunedin district, and was formulated after January 1923. By 1924 with amateur radio operators communicating across the globe, it became necessary for each country to be given an identifying prefix letter. The letter for New Zealand was Z, so call signs with a Z- prefix are 1924 and after. In 1927 the alphabet had been used up so the International Amateur Radio Union decided that an additional letter would be added to identify continents and regions. Oceania, which included New Zealand, was allocated the letter O. Thus call signs with the prefix letters OZ- date from 1927 and after. This held until 1929 when by international agreement the regional prefix was dropped and countries were allocated national two letter prefixes. New Zealand was assigned prefixes from ZK to ZM from which it selected ZL. None of the call signs in the album have the ZL prefix which means that they date from before 1929. (Information from `Ham Shacks, Brass Pounders & Rag Chewers: A history of amateur radio in New Zealand, Ian Dougherty, New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters in association with Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1997, pp 30-32). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: The album had been given to Bernie Withers, a lecturer in electronics in the Canterbury University College Department of Electrical Engineering, by Eric Mangin, a photographic and lecture demonstration technician at the Canterbury University College Physics Department. It is not known how Mr Mangin acquired the album.