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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2025-09-12 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2026-03-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007852b.htm CA 537 corporateBody Army Inventions Directorate Commonwealth of Australia AACR2 19 March 1942 31 December 1946 Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia End Place Victoria, Australia Location Historical agency address (circa March 1942) Kurrajong House, 177 Collins Street, Melbourne (by April, 1942) 31 Spring Street, Melbourne, Vic On 29 January 1942, the Minister for the Army, Mr F M Forde, announced that an Army Inventions Directorate had been created but it was not until 19 March 1942 that Regulations were made under the National Security Act (1939-1940) to give it a legislative basis. The Directorate replaced the Central Inventions Board (CA 153), which has been established in 1940 to accommodate the growing number of submissions to it, and the District Inventions Boards.

In August 1942 the Directorate comprised the following members:

Dr Rvd R Woolley (Chief Executive Officer)
L J Hartnett (Director of Ordnance Production)
Sir George Julius (Chairman of CSIR)
Professor Eric Ashby
Flight Lieutenant S R Bell (Inventions Officer, Department of Air)
R W Hill (Amalgamated Engineering Union)
Brigadier J W A O'Brien (Director of Artillery)
Major-General O F Phillips (temporarily representing Army General Staff)
F R Sinclair (Secretary, Department of the Army)
C S Teece
Air Commodore E C Wackett

 Central Inventions Board [Department of Defence], Commonwealth of Australia (1940 - 1941) Ashby, Eric (1904 - 1992)

Member 1942

 Julius, George Alfred (1873 - 1946)

Member as Chairman of CSIR 1942

 Hartnett, Laurence John (1898 - 1986)

Member as Director of Ordnance Production 1942

 Woolley, Richard van der Riet (1906 - 1986)

Chief Executive Officer 1942

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