Series List and Summary Descriptions


Series 1 Personal - Biographical

Personal and biographical documents. Includes correspondence, photographs, travel souvenirs, family memorabilia and ephemera.

Date Range: 1903 - 1988
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 2 Financial Records

Income tax returns and other papers relating to personal finances.

Date Range: 1938 - 1988
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 3 Diaries

Part 1 World War One
Part 2 ARL
Part 3 Retirement
Part 4 Flight Log Books

Date Range: 1917 - 1987
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 4 World War One

Correspondence, memorabilia and documents relating to L. P. Coombes service in the RAF. Includes wartime experiences of other family members such as Cecil and Dorrie Coombes.

Date Range: 1917 - 1978
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 5 1919-1940

Series contains aeronautical reports and articles, and engineering notes and blueprints.

Date Range: 1919 - 1984
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 6 Seaplanes

Reports and publications on the construction of seaplanes.

Date Range: c. 1928 - c. 1945
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 7 Aeronautical Research Laboratories

Part 1 Prior to Arrival in Australia
Part 2 Correspondence
Part 3 Reports, Minutes, Notes
Part 4 Technical material
Part 5 Personal material, humour
Part 6 Photographs

Date Range: 1937 - 1987
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 8 Institute of Engineers, Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Research Council, Aircraft Industry Investigation Panel

Reports and notes regarding aeronautical research and development in Australia.

Date Range: 1948 - 1978
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 9 Lectures and Addresses

Lectures, addresses and talks given by L. P. Coombes.

Date Range: c. 1927 - c. 1981
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 10 Jo Coombes

Personal papers, mostly correspondence between family members, relating to Jo Coombes (later Johnson), L.P. Coombes' daughter.

Date Range: 1946 - 1957
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 11 Family

Family memorabilia, including correspondence and accounts of overseas trips.

Date Range: 1910 - 1984
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 12 Certificates

Official certificates and awards, photographs, and artwork by L.P. Coombes.

Date Range: 1923 - 1977
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 13 Stamp Collecting

Stamp collection, including First Day Covers.

Date Range: 1952 - 1987
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 14 Photographs and Slides

Photographs and slides of Coombes' family and their travels; CAARC; ARL; Schneider Trophy; World War One. Also includes family documents,greeting cards, ephemera, and creative writing.

Date Range: 1859 - 1980s
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 15 Audio Tape Recordings and Film Recordings, Mostly of Family Events, and Miscellaneous Films.
Date Range: 1940s - 1960s
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 

Series 16 Aeronautical Publications

Include booklets, reprints and articles on Aeronautical subjects.

Date Range: 1940s - 1977
Provenance: Lawrence Percival Coombes

 


Published by the The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on AustehcWeb, July 2008
With support from The Coombes Family, in particular Jo Johnson and Shirley Macleish, The Aeronautical Research Laboratory, DSTO Australia, J.R. Baxter , A.E. Billington, L.M. Bland, F.G. Blight, R.L. Brooks, R. Bruton, B.G. Catchpole, A. Chilton, D.C. Collis, B.L. Cumming, J.B. Dance, W.B. Duncan, A.B. Emslie, C. Frame, F.A. Fox, R.I. Garrod, D.G. Hurley, S.T.M. Johnstone, A.G. Jones, C.N. King, F.G. Lewis, E.S. Moody, R.V. Pavia, A.O. Payne, D. Secomb, D.G. Stewart, R.A.Wallis, H.L. Wain, J.C. Wisdom and And others who contributed to the L.P. Coombes Appeal
Listed by Rod Buchanan, Mandy Johnson, Ann McCarthy, Gavan McCarthy, Lisa O'Sullivan, Mark Scillio and Angela Taylor
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