The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Drawn on the assembly floor of the Commonwealth Ordnance Workshop, showing high precision drilling machines and racks of newly turned anti-aircraft gun barrels. The artist was given a tour by the General Manager ' a pale but amicable man in his sixties' through a series of bays where all the machining was done and the parts of anti aircraft guns were assembled '...we walked up and down the efficient shops, the manager stopping here and there to explain proudly some special machine. I watched the greased movements of beautiful lathes, planes, drills, grinders and borers - some of which were of enormous size, larger than the mounted guns they make.' Six drawings from this series were syndicated by Curtis to Australian newspapers including this one which was reproduced in the Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 20 September 1940.
Wirraways on the main assembly floor at the Commonwealth Aircraft Factory, Melbourne. Curtis was shown around the factory by Wing Commander Lawrence Wackett (1896-1982) who ' ...took me under his win
Portrait of an Australian built aircraft engine on the assembly line, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory at Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne. In 1940 the artist toured the facility with Wing Command
Depicts a cannon carrier being pulled by a team of horses. The artist is Oswald Hillam Coulson (1872-1945) a Lieutenant with the Australian Flying Corp (AFC) and official photographer during the First
Depicts an Australian soldier wearing hospital blues and an Australian hat with plumes. He is being tapped on the shoulder by a nurse because he is wearing slippers and his shirt is unbuttoned. He is
Depicts a drawing that shows the heads of three men on a train. They all appear exhausted and are dozing as they travel on the midnight express. This work was used as a illustration in the 'Kia-Ora Co
Drawing of an Australian digger sitting astride a stubborn and exhausted mule. An M. P (right foreground) has his hand raised and is shouting at the digger and mule to move on. Otho Hewett (1887- 1942