Visit to the Snowy Mountains Scheme by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, 1963 [Part 2]

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Type: Booklets
Date: 1963
Place: Cooma, New South Wales, Australia; Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, Australia
Materials: Paper
Collection: Snowy Scheme - Keith Montague collection
Accession number: 2006.0073.0001.002

Description

Information manual that has a textured buff-coloured cardboard cover with green tape along the spine on the top edge. "SNOWY MOUNTAINS AUTHORITY / Visit / to / The Snowy Mountains Scheme / by / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II / and / His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh / 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th March, 1963 / INFORMATION ISSUED TO S.M.A. STAFF AND OTHER / PERSONEL ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE ROYAL TOUR / PART 2" is printed on the front cover. "K. W. MONTAGUE" is written in blue in the bottom proper left corner. The manual contains comprehesive information on all of the the facilities of the Snowy Mountains Scheme and site plans.

About the collection

The Snowy Scheme - Keith Montague Collection consists of the information manual prepared by Keith for the Queen's Snowy visit in 1963, together with a programme and various publications relating to the history and milestones of the Scheme. The Snowy Scheme is Australia's largest engineering work and one of the great engineering feats of the world. Designed to produce irrigation water and electricity, the Scheme took 25 years to construct, 1949-74. Including 7 power stations, 16 dams and 225 kilometres of aqueducts and tunnels, the Scheme was built by a workforce of 100,000 people, two-thirds of whom came from overseas. The scheme played a major part in making Australia multi-cultural, and also in developing Australia's manufacturing, technical and engineering capacities. This collection helps to reinforce the historical significance of the Scheme, and at the same time reflects the Snowy Mountains Authority's attention to detail in planning for events such as the Queen's visit, and the Authority's awareness of the Scheme's significance - and the need to publicise that significance - as reflected in anniversary and other publications.

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