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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