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Journal Article

Author
Crawford, John Murray
Title
Notes on Victorian-Tasmanian Telephone Cable
In
Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
Imprint
vol. 8, no. 6, Jun 1936, pp. 236-239
Description

Report of Lecture presented by John Murray Crawford MBE MIEAust, Chief Engineer, Postmaster-General's Department, before the Melbourne Division of The Institution on 19th May, 1936.

Abstract

The recent opening for traffic of the Victorian-Tasmanian Telephone Cable was marked by the Commonwealth Government by the issue of a special commemorative stamp. Considered as an engineering work, there are undoubtedly aspects of the project which lift it above the level of the ordinary job of submarine cable laying.

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