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Manuscripts

MSS 002 – Papers of Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark (formerly writing as Chris Coulthard-Clark) graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1972, and gained his PhD from the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra in 1991. Clark was Historian for Post-1945 Conflicts at the Australian War Memorial and Chief of the Air Staff Historian 1987-1991 and has published widely on Australian military history. The collection contains drafts and copies of original sources relating to Clark’s Australia's military map-makers : the Royal Australian Survey Corps 1915-96 (2000), covering aspects of the Royal Australian Engineers.

Example: Box 2/Folder 15-Various Australian Amy Orders (AAOs) 14 Royal Australian Engineers, 1940, School of Anti-Aircraft and Fortress Engineering including School of Field Engineering, 1940; Box 10/Folder 76: Booklet entitled 'Integration Parade of Royal Australian Survey Corps into the Royal Australian Engineers on Monday 1st July 1996', The Engineer Centre, Moorebank Sapper news : the Royal Australian Engineers newsletter, vol 6, no. 2, 31 Aug 1996; Box 11/Folder 88: The history of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, vol 1, 1749-1939, by Colonel A.J. Kerry and Major W.A. McDill, 1962, various pages History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol VI, Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 1952, various pages, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, vol V, Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 1952, various pages

MSS 126 – Doug Robertson Maritime & Naval History Collection
A comprehensive collection of notebooks, research notes, newspaper clippings and plans – together with an extended sequence of 70,000 photographs and slides - compiled and collected by Australian ship expert and naval historian, Doug Robertson (1923-1984).  The material documents naval history from the 17th -20th centuries, with an emphasis on merchant and naval ships in the period 1860-1974.  Includes sail, steam, diesel and nuclear-powered ships of many types, such as tugs, lash vessels, cargo ships, tankers, ferries, lighthouse tenders, liners, destroyers, anti-submarine vessels, mine-sweepers, clippers, schooners, ketches and barques, amongst others.

A comprehensive collection of notebooks, research notes, newspaper clippings and plans – together with an extended sequence of 70,000 photographs and slides - compiled and collected by Australian ship expert and naval historian, Doug Robertson (1923-1984).  The material documents naval history from the 17th -20th centuries, with an emphasis on merchant and naval ships in the period 1860-1974.  Includes sail, steam, diesel and nuclear-powered ships of many types, such as tugs, lash vessels, cargo ships, tankers, ferries, lighthouse tenders, liners, destroyers, anti-submarine vessels, mine-sweepers, clippers, schooners, ketches and barques, amongst others.

MSS 142 – Papers of Dirk ter Haar
Born in the Netherlands in 1919, Dirk ter Haar attained his doctorate on the origins of the solar system from the University of Leiden (1948). A specialist in statistical physics and quantam mechanics, Haar was for many years Reader in Theoretical Physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where Anthony Leggett (Nobel laureate in Physics, 2003) and Deng Jiaxian (Chinese nuclear physicist) listed among his notable students.  Haar was an energetic linguist, translating several seminal works into English, his knowledge of Russian providing him with access to Soviet scientific advances (including the work of Landau and Kapitsa) ahead of his colleagues in the West.

Highlights of Haar’s papers include his early notebooks, manuscript drafts and lecture notes.

MSS 183 – Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee
Lieutenant-General Sir Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee, KBE, CB, CBE, DSO, was born on the 16 April 1890 in Frankston, Victoria, son of Alfred Hobart Sturdee who commanded the 2nd Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force, at Gallipoli. Sturdee the younger was commissioned in 1908, and in February 1911 appointed probationary lieutenant, Royal Australian Engineers, Permanent Military Forces. On 25 April 1915 and landed at Gallipoli as adjutant, 1st Divisional Engineers, and from September as a major, commanded the 5th Field Company, 2nd Divisional Engineers and the engineering and mining work at Steele's, Quinn's and Courtney's posts.

Example: Box 1/Folder 1-Notebooks and notes, 1915-1987, including: Brown leather notebook/diary, Headquarters Division Engineers, 1st Australian Division, covers the period from Sunday 25/4/1915 to 2/7/1915; Black notebook, covers the period from Friday 3/9/1915 to 31/12/1915, and includes aide memoir jottings and engineering sketches; Correspondence Book Army Book 152 (Field Service), 22/9/1915 to 23/1/1916, includes carbon copies of official memos by at Gallipoli, the front flyleaf comprises a brief record of Sturdee's military service; Précis of Sturdee's notebooks prepared by Brigadier K.R. Colwill, 14 March 1987, 5 page typescript, 1915-1987

MSS 284 – Papers of Histories of Commissioned Ships in the Royal Australian Navy
Photocopy and carbon typescript drafts relating to Commissioned Ships serving in the Royal Australian Navy. The collection provides technical ship data together with a brief service history of between one to seventeen pages for each vessel from launching to disposal from 1866 to 1983. This information was collected for The Australasian Military History Database (MIHILIST), produced by UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.

Example: Box 7/Folder 234 HMS Warrnambool (I); Box 7/Folder 235 HMAS Warrego (I); Box 7/Folder 236 HMAS Warrego (II); Box 7/Folder 237 HMAS Watcher; Box 7/Folder 238 HMAS Waterhen

MSS 335 – Papers of Major D.C.L. Wilson
Correspondence, diaries, newspaper articles, other publications and personal documents and effects pertaining to Major D.C.L. Wilson's education at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, training at the Land Headquarters Tactical School and World War II service, particularly in the Pacific. Also includes original documents relating to military training, orders, signals and maps, ciphered messages and classified ‘secret’ papers, together with a pamphlet and folder relating to military engineering.

Example: Box 2/Folder 8-War Office, Field Engineering (All Arms). War Office Military Training Pamphlet, no. 30 (1940); Box 2/Folder 13: Engineering 1938 [26 pieces]

MSS 336 – Papers of Richard Northam
A compact but interesting collection of aircraft plans, photographs and printed items amassed by Richard Northam.

MSS 337 – Papers of J. Letts
Field service pocketbooks, memoranda, and volumes relating to the Home Guard (Australian Volunteer Defence Corps) in the Second World War collected by J.A. Letts, including small arms training pamphlets. 

Example: Box 1/Folder 2-Field Service Pocket Book: Intelligence – Information and Security. Pamphlet no. 3, 1939

 

Rare Books

Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering

Aeronautical drafting manual
Society of Automotive Engineers
7th ed. rev.; New York : Society of Automotive Engineers, 1957
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TL671.25 .A37 1957)

De Havilland Comet maintenance engineer's : lecture notes
De Havilland Aircraft Company. Servicing School
Hatfield, Hertfordshire : De Havilland Servicing School,196-? 
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TL686 .D4 1960)

Fourier-Transform imaging for X-ray astronomy
Hurford, G. J.; Hudson, Hugh S.; California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, Ca. : California Institute of Technology, 1980
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio QB 472 .H87 1980)

An introduction to aeronautical engineering : for students engaged in all branches of aeronautical work. Vol. 1, Mechanics of flight
Kermode, Alfred Cotterill.
3rd ed. ; Melbourne : Pitman, 1940
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TL546 .K47 1940)

Quality manual
Aircraft War Production Council (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles, Calif. : Aircraft War Production Council, Inc., c1944
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TL671.9 .Q34 1944)

Report of a study for a complete aeronautical engineering degree course at the University College
Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Canberra, A.C.T : Australian Defence Force Academy, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1988
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TL556.5 .A8 1988)

A sergeant's story : airfield construction in New Guinea and Goodenough Island during World War Two
Edwards, Eric H. ; ; Menzies, Grahame C.
Ettalong Beach, N.S.W : E. Edwards, 1991?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D811 .E39 1991)

Spitfire : a record of the members of the Supermarine Design Department responsible for the design and development of the Spitfire from 1932 to 1945
Gingell, Gerald
England : Messier-Dowty and Dowty Aerospace, 1997?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TL685.3 .S64 1997)
 

Civil Engineering

3-inch mortar : table of elevations for use with the Cinometer, 1941
Great Britain. War Office.
North Melbourne : Victoria Railways Printing Works, 1941
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UF820 .T57 1941)

Consulting capabilities : Department of Civil Engineering : Unisearch Ltd.
Unisearch Ltd.; Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Civil Engineering
Canberra : Department of Civil Engineering, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1987
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TA216 .C66 1987)

Corporate plan 1992-1997
Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Civil and Maritime Engineering
Canberra, A.C.T. : The Dept., 1991
Available at Canberra Special Collection (LG715.C3 E53 1991)

Demolitions
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
London : H.M.S.O, 1941
Series: Field engineering pamphlet ; no. 7; "26/G.S. Pubns./354"; Cover title; Cover title -- Bulk explosives -- Accessories -- Firing by -- --Safety fuze -- --Electricity -- Surface charges -- Mined charges -- Borehole charges -- Concussion charges -- Demolition of reinforced concrete structures -- Preparation and execution of bridge demolitions
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG370 .G73 1941)

An investigation of hydrostatic levelling
Sneddon, John
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New South Wales. Faculty of Military Studies. Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1974
Available at Canberra Special Collections (Cool Room) (1974 Sneddon)

Memoirs of William Cox, J.P., Lieutenant and paymaster of N.S.W. Corps..
Cox, William, 1764-1837
Sydney : William Brooks ; 1901
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU177 .C6)

New fields for British engineering
Great Britain. Ministry of Reconstruction.
London : H.M.S.O., 1918
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TA155 .N48 1918)

Pocket-book of useful formulae & memoranda for civil and mechanical engineers
Guilford L. Molesworth (Guilford Lindsey), 1828-1925;  Henry Bridges Molesworth
London : Spon, 1943
Molesworth's pocket book of engineering formulae.--Cover title; Includes index
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TA332 .M64 1943)

Report on works to reduce sediment movement from the new road to the fringing reef north of Cape Tribulation
Bonham, A. J. (Alan John), 1930- 
Canberra : Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of NSW at Duntroon ADFA, 1985
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TE210.4 .B66 1985)

Submission to the Institution of Engineers Australia :: application for renewal of accreditation of BE (Civil)
Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Civil Engineering
Campbell, A.C.T. : Australian Defence Force Academy, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989
Available at Canberra Special Collection (LB 2331.615 .A8 A97 1989)

The use of pulverized fuel ash as a reclamation fill in Hong Kong
Li, K. S. ; Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Civil and Maritime Engineering
Canberra : University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, 1991
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TC345.H6 L5 1991)

Wave diffraction in step-walled harbours
Gorman, R. M. ; Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Civil and Maritime Engineering
Canberra : University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales, 1990
Available at Canberra Special Collection (GC213.7 .M3 G6 1990)
 

Electrical Engineering

Institution of Engineers, Australia
Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Canberra, A.C.T : University College, University of New South Wales, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1989
Available at Canberra Special Collection (LB2331.65 .A8 A8 1989)

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers regimental training programme : 1950.
Great Britain. Army. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
London : H.M.S.O., 1950
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG 155 .R69 1950)


Field Engineering

3.5 inch rocket launcher
Great Britain. War Office; Australia. Military Board
Canberra : Military Board, 1953-1962
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG1315.A8 T73 1953)

The Assault crossing of water obstacles. Part I, The opposed crossing of a water obstacle
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff.
London : War Office,  1947
Series: Military training pamphlet ; no. 20.
Description: "26/G.S. Trg. Publications/1666; W.O. Code no. 8215"; "Reprinted with permission Controller, H.M.S.O., London" - cover verso.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (U 375 .A87 1947)

Active service pocket book
Bertrand Stewart
London : Wyman,  1915
Description: Includes index - Laws and customs of war - Protection - -Advanced and van guards - -Flank guard - -Rear guard - -Outposts - Reconnaissance and transmission of information - -Reconnaissance --By independent cavalry --Methods of carrying out --Aerial --Reading tracks --Field reports -Of a coast for defensive purposes -Of railways - Battle - -Cavalry attack --Advance --Mounted attack -Actual --Dismounted attack -Actual - -Infantry attack --General principles --Division of force and duties of different parts --Preparation for --Carrying out - -Attack by either mounted troops or infantry - -Defence and counter-attack. Mounted troops and infantry --Preparations for defence -Occupation of the position - Night operations - -Prismatic compass - -Sketch for night march - -Night attack - Frontier warfare and operations in mountainous countries - Fire tactics - -Machine guns --Tactical handling - Supply of ammunition - -General organisation - Judging distance - -By day - Employment of cyclists - -Marches - Appreciations - Orders - -Operation orders --Forms and examples - Horse management - -Prevention of disease - -Prevention of injuries --Saddle injuries --Shoeing injuries - -Veterinary first aid --Wounds --Diseases -Diseases of a communicable nature --Practical shoeing - Transport - -Railway --Entrainment -Loading guns, limbers, and ammunition wagons - Indian railway - -Sea - -Road --Organisation of -Convoys --Working of -Carts and wagons -Pack animals - Encampments - -Camps and bivouacs - Sanitation in the field - -Care and purification of water - Supply - -Cattle --Killing and cutting up - -Ovens - Camp cooking - -Recipes - Field engineering - -Demolitions --Making up guncotton charges --Making up dynamite charges --Of railways --Of bridges --Damage to locomotives - -Defensive works --Entrenchments --Obstacles -Wire entanglements -Abattis - -Bridging --Forms and dimensions of bridges -Trestle -Floating - -Rafts - First aid - -Wounds - -Dressing and bandages - Military law - -Courts martial - Signaling - -Morse code - Ciphers - English-metric equivalents
Available at Canberra Special Collection (U115 .G7 1915)

Bailey bridge
Great Britain. War Office.
London : War Office, 1942
Series: Military engineering. Volume III, Part II, pamphlet ; no. 12 – foldout pages
Description: "26/G.S. Publications/748"; "Notified in A.C.Is. 5th August, 1942"; Cover title; Cover title - Bailey bridge - -Object and uses of the equipment - -Erection tools - -Method of erection and launching - -Transport - -Maintenance - Bailey pontoon bridge - -Description of the equipment - -Erection and launching - -Bailey bridge - Plates
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG335 .B34 1942)

Basic field engineering. Part II (RE and Inf. Pnrs) chapt. 6 to 8
Great Britain. War Office
London : H.M.S.O, 1949
Series: Field engineering and mine warfare pamphlet ; no. 1.
Description: Cover title; "26/GS Trg publication/1799."; "WO code no. 8409."; "WO code no. 8409." - Cordage, steel wire rope and chains - -Knots and lashings - -Steel wire rope - -Wire rope fastenings - Application of power and anchorages - -Blocks and tackles - Derricks, sheers, gyns, and aerial ropeways - -Calculations for derricks, sheers, and gyns - Principal tools, materials and stores suitable for use in field
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG360 .B37 1949)

Elements de fortification : contenant la construction raisonnee des ouyrages de fortifications ...
Le Blond, Guillaume, 1704-1781
Paris : Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1775
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG400 .L43 1775)

An essay on field fortification : intended principally for the use of officers of infantry
J. C. Pleydell
Description: Probably by Pleydell himself-ESTC; Advertisements at front; Printed on wove paper
London : Printed for F. Wingrove successor to Mr. Nourse, 1794
xiv, [2], 184 p., plates : ill
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG400 .E87)

Field engineering : 1939.
Great Britain. Army Council.
London : H.M.S.O., 1944
Description: Cover title; "26/G.S. Publications/194"; "Notified in A.C.I's for the week ending 20th December, 1939."; "By command of the Army Council"; "Reprinted with amendments 1941"
Series: Field service pocket book. Pamphlet ; no. 4.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (MSS 337)

Field service pocket book
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Description: Contents: Item consists of pamphlets arranged into folders - War establishments - Time and space - Quarters - Orders - Intercommunication - Information - Overseas operations - Field engineering - Table of time, men and tools required for certain work - Bridges and bridging expedients - Transport - Details of vehicles and stores in common use - Transport by rail - Small arms and guns - Rations, Fuel and forage - Supply arrangements - Field kits - Medical service - Veterinary service - Office work and private correspondence - Courts-martial - International law - Military forces of the oversea dominions, crown colonies and protectorates other than India - Weights, measures and money (British, Indian and foreign)
London : H.M.S.O, 1913-
Available at Canberra  Special Collection (U175.G7 A5)

Field works
Australia. Australian Army.
London : H.M.S.O., 1941
Series: Volunteer Defence Corps manual. Pamphlet ; no. 7.
Description: "A.M.R. & O. 1588B"; "Issued by command of the Military Board"; "Notified in A.A.O.'s dated 31st July, 1941"; "Not to be published ; The information given in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Service."; Volunteer Defence Corps Manual, Sec, XVII, Ser. 93.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (MSS 337)

Hasty demolition calculations in the field
Great Britain. Army. Middle East Forces. Engineer in Chief.; Great Britain. Army. Middle East Forces.
London : G.H.Q., Middle East, 1941
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG370 .H37 1941)

Maintenance in the field. Part V, REME
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff.
London : War Office,  1944
Series: Military training pamphlet ; no. 9.
Description: "Reprinted with permission of the Controller, H.M.S.O., London"; Cover title.; "26 / G.S. Publications / 1104"; "Restricted"; Great Britain. Army. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Handbooks, manuals, etc; Australia. Army. Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - Handbooks, manuals, etc; Military field engineering
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA 661 .R9 M34 1944)

Manual of field engineering
Great Britain. War Office
London : War Office,  1939
Description: 2 vols, maps, plans; v.1. All arms-v.2. Royal engineers; "1933"-T.p. (vol. 1); "1936"-T.p. (vol. 2); "By Command of the Army Council, the War office". "30th June 1933" vol. 1. "31st October, 1936" vol. 2.; Includes index.; Notified in Army orders for June 1933 (vol. 1). Notified in Army orders for October 1936 (vol. 2).; "26/manuals/1146" (vol. 1); "26/manuals/1005 (vol. 2); "26/manuals/1146" (vol. 1); "26/manuals/1005 (vol. 2) - VOLUME ONE. (All arms) - Training - Elements of field engineering - Organization of work - Protective works in defence - Concealment, observation and communications - Obstacles - Factors governing design of protective works - Protective works - Siting and development of protective works - Maintenance and repairs - Protective works for artillery - Protective works in warfare in undeveloped countries - Roads and tracks - Passage of water obstacles - VOLUME TWO - Engineer information - -Engineer reconnaissance - -Simple field surveying - Field fortification - -Elaboration of hasty field defences - -Shelters and dug-outs --Tunnelled dug-outs - -Air raid protection --Shelters - -Concrete and reinforced Concrete --Mixing and placing - -Concealment --Covers --Special cases - -Protective works in warfare in undeveloped and semi-civilized countries - Bridging - -Bridging operations --Organisation - -Cordage, wire ropes and chains blocks and tackles - -Application of power and anchorages - -Derricks, sheers and gyns - -Methods of launching girders - -Bridge types --Cantilever - -Piers, abutments and foundations --Timber trestle construction and erection --Piles and pile diving - -Bridge design and calculations - -Improvised floating bridges and rafts - -Watermanship --Boats and rowing drill - Roads, tramways, railways - -Roads --Drainage and earthwork --Permanent road construction --Temporary roads - -Tramways - -Railways - Demolitions - -Explosives and demolitions --Firing charges --Mined and borehole charges --Concussion charges - -Land mines and traps - Accommodation and water supply - -Accommodation, sanitation and cooking arrangements - -Water supply --Methods of raising water --Fitting and laying W.I. pipes - -Work for the royal air force
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG360 .G7 1939)

Memorandum on the construction and repair of road bridges
Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers.
London : Harrison and Sons for H.M.S.O., 1916
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio UG360 .M45 1916)

The organization of shell-hole defences
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
France : Army Printing & Stationery Service, 1917
Description: Cover title; "S.S. 202"; "O.B./2139"; "December, 1917"
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG443 .O73 1917)

The pill-boxes of Flanders
Edward Guy Lethbridge Thurlow 1881-
London : Published for the British Legion by Nicholson and Watson,  1933
Description: St Julien, Wieltje, Kitchener's wood, Pilckem - Wytschaete -Messines area
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG403 .T5 1933)

Pontoon bridging : (pontoons Mk. V and trestles Mk. VII.
Great Britain. Army Council.
London : H.M.S.O.,  1941
Series: Military engineering. Volume III, Part II, pamphlet ; no. 3
Description: "By command of the Army Council - the War Office".; Reprinted with amendments, 1941.; "26/G.S. Publications/277".; Noyified in A.C.Is. for the week ending 10th April, 1940.; Noyified in A.C.Is. for the week ending 10th April, 1940. - Equipment - Organization of a bridging operation - Transport of the equipment - Raft construction - Trestles, trestle and sliding bay - Long landing bay - Ferrying - Shore-loading rafts for tanks - Details of the equipment and its use - Maintenance
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG335 .P66 1941)

Text book of fortification and military engineering.
London : H.M.S.O, 1892-93
Description: 2 vols; Pt. 1. Field fortification and military bridges -pt. 2. Permanent fortificaiton, historical development, siege works, coast defence.; "Official copy".; "Official copy". - Field fortification - -Materials --Not specially prepared --Made up - -Revetments - -Obstacles - -Stockades - Applied field fortification - -Defence of villages - -Attack on field works - -Defile works and bridge heads - Military bridges - -Knotting and lashing spars
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG 403 .T49 1892)

Text book of fortification and military engineering, for use at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
W. G Ross (William Gordon), b.1843
London : H.M.S.O, 1884-1886
Description: Index: part 2 p. 253-258; Index: part 2 p. 253-258 - PART ONE. - Geometrical drawing - -Practical plane geometry - -Practical solid geometry --Perspective projection - Elementary field fortification - -Obstacles - -Field works --Trace of works --Size and garrison of works - Applied field fortification - -Defence of farms, villages, and woods - -Choice of defensive positions - -Varieties of fortified positions - -Attack and defence of field works - Permanent fortification - -Bastioned trace - -Polygonal trace - -Fortresses and forts - PART TWO. - Attack and defence of fortresses - -Preparations for the attack --Opening of the first parallel - Execution of field and siege works - -Field revetments - -Siege trenches --Common trenchwork and flying trenchwork --Single sap - -Siege batteries - Military mining - -Mine tactics - Coast defenses - -Coast batteries - -Obstructions and submarine mines - Historical development of permanent fortification - -Italian engineers - -Vauban, Cormontaingne, and Coehorn - -Montalembert, Carnot, and the Prussian system - -Amended bastioned systems - Military bridges - -Strength of materials - -Varieties of bridges
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG403 .T49 1884)

The Theory and construction of fortification : illustrated with several new designs
Bisset, Charles, 1717-1791.
London : Printed for the author, and sold by A. Millar, D. Wilson and R. Dodsley, 1751
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG400 .B57 1751)

Tubular scaffolding for military purposes
Great Britain. Army Council
London : H.M.S.O.,  1935
Series: Military engineering. Volume III, Part II, pamphlet ; no. 4
Description: "26/Manuals/1331"; "26/G.S. Publications/24"-Amendments no. 1 & 3.; "Notified in Army Orders for November, 1935"; "Notified in A.C.Is. for week ending 14th June, 1939"-Amendments no. 1.; "Notified in A.C.Is. for 31st October, 1942"-Amendments no. 3.; "Notified in A.C.Is. for 31st October, 1942"-Amendments no. 3. - General description - Design - Applications – Erection
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG155 .G7 T82 1935)
 

Materials Technology

British Australian Lead Manufacturers
Sydney : British Australian Lead Manufacturers, 1945
Available at Academy Library Canberra Special Collection (folio UG1240 .S96 1945)

Report on the condition of service materiel under tropical conditions in New Guinea
C. J. Magee (Charles Joseph), 1901- ;  C. T Hansen (Charles Thomas), 1913-
Melbourne : Scientific Liaison Bureau,  1943
Australia. Australian Army -- Equipment; Materials -- Papua New Guinea -- Deterioration; Military supplies -- Packing -- Tropical conditions -- Supplies and stores -- Materials
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UC265.A8 M33 1943)


Mechanical Engineering

Cassier's magazine (New York, N.Y)
New York ; Cassier Magazine Co., 1891- 
v.35 (1908-09) only held
Available at Canberra Special Collection (VM 595 .C37)

Definitions and formulae for students (applied mechanics)
E. H. Lewitt
London : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons,  1941
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TA350 .L49 1941)

Elements of Hamiltonian mechanics
Haar, D. ter
Amsterdam : North-Holland Pub. Co. ; New York : Interscience Publishers, 1961
Available at Canberra Special Collection (QA871 .H13 196)

The German tank Elfriede
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
London : General Staff Intelligence, General Headquarters, 1918
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio UG620.G3 G47 1918)

Operators handbook : Double Wasp A and B series engines
United Aircraft Corporation. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division.
3rd ed.; East Hartford, Conn. : The Division, 1943
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TL703.P7 U57 1943)

The Practical engineer pocket book 1944 : with technical dictionaries in French and Spanish
A. H Stuart
London England : Oxford University Press, 1944
liii, 704 p. : ill.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TA9 .P72 1944)

Spons' tables and memoranda for engineers
John Thomas Hurst
London : Spon,  1911
12th ed.; 278 p. 5 cm
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TH151 .H8 1911)

Theory and construction of a rational heat motor
Diesel, Rudolf, 1858-1913
London : Spon ; New York : Spon & Chamberlain, 1894
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TJ795 .D53 1894)

A treatise of mechanics, theoretical, practical and descriptive
Olinthus Gregory 1774-1841
London : Geo. B. Whittaker, 1826
 3 v. : ill.; 4th ed, corrected and improved.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TJ145 .G8 1826)


Military Engineering

British Army standard specification = Britische Armee Richt-Verzeichnis
F. H Brown
Cover title: "Directorate of Fortifications and Works, War Office, London"--At foot of title; "Lt. Col. F.H. Brown"; Section I Material -- Section II Erection of hutting in camps and depots -- Section III Drains -- water mains -- roads and paths-- Section IV General building work -- Section V Electrical -- Section VI Heating -- steam -- Hot and cold water service;
[s.l.] : Great Britain. War Office. Directorate of Fortifications and Works, 1943
Available at Canberra Special Collection (TA 630 .B74 1943)

Comparative tables of British, American and metric standards, 1944
Series: Royal Engineers supplementary pocket book ; no.1A; Cover title.; "26/GS publications/1284".; "Notified in ACIs [ie Army Council Instructions) 1944".
London : H.M.S.O., 1944
Available at Canberra, Special Collection (UG155.G7 C65 1944)

The Corps of Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War 1939-45
Australia. Army. Royal Australian Engineers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Australia; World War, 1939-1945 -- Engineering and construction -- Construction
 Melbourne Vic. : Speciality Press,  1946
Available at Canberra, Special Collection (folio D795.A8 C6 1947)

Defense de Sebastopol : expose de la guerre souterraine 1854-1855
M. M. Frolow
E. de Todleben
Intrenchments; Blasting; Sevastopol (Ukraine) -- History -- Siege, 1854-1855 -- Engineering and construction
Saint-Petersbourg : Nekludow,  1870
Language: French
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DK 215.7 .F7 1870)

Engineer training
Great Britain. War Office
London : H.M.S.O., 1940
Contents: Pt. 1. Individual and collective training -- pt. 2. War; "Modified for Australia by permission of the Army Council"; "26/G.S. Publications/447" (part 1); "26/G.S. Publications/537" (part 2); Notified in A.C.Is. 1st January 1941 (part 1); Notified in A.C.Is. 13th September 1941 (part 2)
Available at Canberra, Special Collection (UG155 .G7 E53 1940)

Engineer training 1937
Great Britain. War Office
Description: "War Office, 31st August, 1937" -- T.p. verso; "By command of the Army Council"; "26/Manuals/1446"; "26/Manuals/2201"--Amendments no. 1; "Reprinted with the permission of the controller, His Majesty's Stationary Office, London."; "Notified in Army orders for August, 1937"; "Notified in A.C.Is. for the week ending 14th June, 1939"--Amendments no. 1; "Notified in A.C.Is. for the week ending 14th June, 1939"--Amendments no. 1 -- Training -- --Initial -- --Annual -- --In field operations -- --Drill -- War -- --War organization of engineers -- --Engineer direction and command -- --Supply of engineering equipment and stores -- --Control of work in the field -- --Engineer duties in the field -- --Engineer tactics -- --Engineer work on the lines of communication
Brisbane : David Whyte, Govt. Printer, 1937
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG155 .G7 E53 1937)

[Examination for first appointment and transfer to the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery and Royal Australian Engineers]
Australia. Army. Royal Australian Engineers.; Australia. Army. Royal Australian Garrison Artillery.
Melbourne : Government Printer, 1911
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio U702.5 .E93 1911)

Military engineering. Volume III, Part 1, 1941
Great Britain. War Office
Amendment no. 3; "Notified in A.C.I.'s 5th June 1943"
London : H.M.S.O,  1943
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG155 .G7 M54 1943)

The Royal Engineers pocket book 1936
Great Britain. War Office
London : H.M.S.O, 1941
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG155.G7 A3)

Royal Engineers training memorandum
Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers
London : War Office,  1942-1944
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG155 .G7 R69)


Naval Engineering

Annual report
Australian Defence Force Academy. Dept. of Civil and Maritime Engineering
I. K Lee (Ian Kenneth), 1932-
Canberra, A.C.T. : The Dept., 1990-
Available at Canberra Special Collection (LG715.C3 E53)

Buckler's Hard and its ships; some historical reflections
Montagu, John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1866-1929
London : Printed by Billings and Sons, ltd. Guildford, 1909
Available at Canberra Special Collection (VM64.B8 M7)

Cockatoo docks, Sydney : war record, 1939-1945
Sydney : Printed by S.T. Leigh,  (1946?)
Available at Canberra Special Collection (VA716 .C6 1946)

Engineering notes
Royal Australian Naval College
Creswell, N.S.W. : Royal Australian Naval College, 1940?
A basic textbook of instruction designed to teach the ‘fundamental principles of naval engineering’ - Intro.; A basic textbook of instruction designed to teach the "fundamental principles of naval engineering" - Intro. -- Steam engines -- Boilers -- Turbines -- Petrol engines -- Steering gear
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio TJ146 .E53)

Folding boat equipment, Mk. II : (including the light trestle and folding dinghy)
Great Britain. War Office.
London : H.M.S.O., 1939
Series: Military engineering. Volume III, Part II, pamphlet ; no. 2 ‘26/Manuals/2199’; Notified in A.C.Is. for the week ending 12th July, 1939.; "By command of the Army Council - the War Office."; "By command of the Army Council - the War Office." -- Object and uses of the equipment -- Folding boat -- Tracket raft (3 1/2 tons) -- Decked raft (5.2 tons) -- Landing stages -- Transport -- Bridge construction -- Folding dinghy -- Loading tables
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG155 .G7 F64 1939)

A manual of naval architecture : for the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, shipbuilders and shipowners
White, W. H.
London : John Murray, 1877
Available at Canberra Special Collection (VM 145 .W5 1877)

Provisional handbook for folding boat equipment, Mk.III : 1941
Great Britain. War Office
London : H.M.S.O,  1941
Cover title; "57/Southern/3865"; "War Office"; "Issued under authority of Deputy Director of Staff Duties (R.E.); "Issued under authority of Deputy Director of Staff Duties (R.E.) -- Object and uses of the equipment -- Folding boat, Mk.III -- Shore loading tracked raft (class 3) -- Bridge superstructure F.B.E., Mk.III -- Trestles F.B.E., Mk.III, short and long -- Transport -- Assembly of the equipment -- Maintenance of the equipment -- Bridge construction -- Ferrying
Available Canberra Special Collection (UG360 .P76 1941)