5th HTPAA TOOL CONFERENCE
Saturday April 8th 2006
at Rydges Hotel Carlton,
701 Swanston St, Melbourne
8.30 am to 4.30 pm
The Dinner with Speaker will be held on the
Friday preceding the conference
|
| Time |
Activity
/ Presenter |
Topic |
| Friday 7th
April 2006 |
Dinner
speaker Dr Max Lay AM |
Dinner at
Rydges
Drinks from bar at 7pm, meal served at 7.30, speaker Dr Max Lay, past Director
of the Victorian Road Research Board & Chief Engineer of Vic Roads and
Immediate Past President of the RACV. |
| Saturday
8th April 2006 |
Tool Conference |
|
| 7.30
am |
Access
to set up displays |
|
| 8.30
am |
Registration
and Coffee |
|
| 9.00
am |
Graeme
Plaw (Member HTPAA) |
History
of Sidchrome in Australia
Graeme Plaw is a Turner man who became a Stanley manager. |
| 9.45
am |
John
Hawking (Member HTPAA) |
History
of Adjustable spanners and wrenches found in Australia
John Hawking is an Invertebrate Ecologist with the Murray Darling Freshwater
Research Centre - CSIRO, Wodonga; passionate / fanatical collector of adjustable
wrenches. |
| 10.30
am |
Morning
Tea |
|
| 11.00
am |
David
Moloney |
Industrial
Heritage sites in Victoria - preservation and interpretation
David Moloney is a historian, and the Convenor or the National Trust's
Industrial History Committee. |
| 11.45
am |
Ian
Stagg (president HTPAA) |
Japanese
tool making
Ian Stagg recently visited Japan, and he will discuss the tool making
practices he saw there. |
| 12.30
am |
Lunch |
|
| 1.30
pm |
Warren
Hewertson (Member HTPAA) |
Fire
making tools.
Warren Hewertson is an Industrial Chemist, past chief of CSIRO Division
of Forestry Products. |
| 2.15
pm |
Jim
Dixon (Member HTPAA) |
Turner
Saws
Jim Dixon past production Manager of Turner Saws. |
| 3.00
pm |
Afternoon
Tea |
|
| 3.30
pm |
Peter
McBride (Member HTPAA) |
Chaplin
Planes
Peter McBride is a collector of quality tools. |
| 4.15
pm |
|
Whatzits |
| 4.45 |
|
Close |
| The
first annual Tool Sale for 2006 will be held on Sunday the 9th at the
usual Hawthorn venue: Glenferrie Primary School
80 Manningtree Road Hawthorn
(Melways 45 D11).
Registration fee for the Conference is $55, members subsidised price
is $25, which includes lunch and morning and afternoon teas.
The charge for the dinner will be $40 per person. |
