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- 1971 (Creation)
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5 l. ; 30 cm.
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Historian, statistician and writer. A long-serving Councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland and a founder of the Professional Historians' Association (Queensland). An authority on Australian railways and the sugar industry, he published extensively in the Australian Railway Society's Bulletin, and wrote Triumph of narrow gauge: A history of Queensland railways. In 1959 he began the compilation of an historical database on Queensland railways, a resource which he regularly updated and re-supplied to Australian libraries from 1966 until his death.
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- English
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Typescript (photocopy) with some ms emendations to original, and signed handwritten note on last leaf. Dated June 28 1971.
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Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.