A000335 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2000-04-20 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-12-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000335b.htm CA 118 corporateBody Army Headquarters Inventions Board Commonwealth of Australia AACR2 30 September 1932 30 September 1940 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia End Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Location Historical agency address 1932-1940: Victoria Barracks, St Kilda Road, Melbourne Army Defence Research The Army Headquarters Inventions Board was appointed by Army Order 200/1932 on 30 September 1932. The Board was to investigate matters reported upon by district Inventions Boards and submit recommendation in regard to such inventions and suggestions to the Quartermaster-General. It was located at Victoria Barracks, on St Kilda Road in Melbourne. The new Central Inventions Board replaced the Army Headquarters Inventions Board (CA 118) which had been in existence since 1932. The new Board also inherited responsibility for naval and airforce inventions work but further research is required to determine which agencies carried out these functions before September 1940.

The Board was composed of a President who was the Quartermaster-General (QMG) or Senior Officer of the QMG's Branch at Army Headquarters; and the members were the:

. Director of Naval Ordnance Torpedoes and Mines
. General Staff Officer (Engineers and Signals)
. Staff Officer for Equipment (who acted as Secretary to the Board), and the
. chief Ordnance Mechanical Engineer;

The following individuals were consultative members of the Board (who attended as requested by the President):

. members of the Professional Staff of Melbourne University
. representatives of the Munitions Supply Board
. Chief Instructor, Artillery Schools of Instruction
. Chief Instructor, Small Arms School.

The Board's associate members were:

. members of the Military Board
. the Controller General of Munitions Supply and
. Chief Inspector, Munitions Supply Board.

 Australian Army (1903 - ) The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

"Professional Staff of Melbourne University" were consultative members

 Royal Australian Navy, Commonwealth of Australia (1911 - ) Central Inventions Board [Department of Defence], Commonwealth of Australia (1940 - 1941)

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 'Army Headquarters Inventions Board', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Army Headquarters Inventions Board Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The Role of Science and Industry, Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Volime 5 of Series 4 (Civil) Mellor, D. P. The Role of Science and Industry, Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Volime 5 of Series 4 (Civil) Canberra Australian War Memorial 1958 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000