Corporate Body

Royal Melbourne Technical College (1954 - 1960)

From: July 1954
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
To: March 1960
Functions: Education
Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Summary

In July 1954 The Melbourne Technical College was granted permission to add the prefix "Royal" to its title. Permission to use the royal coat of arms was granted in November that year.

Timeline

1882 - 1933 Working Men's College
       1933 - 1954 The Melbourne Technical College
             1954 - 1960 Royal Melbourne Technical College
                   1960 - 1992 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
                         1992 - RMIT University

Subordinate

School of Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) (c. 1887 - 1967)

Published resources

Books

Murray-Smith, Stephen and Dare, Anthony John, The Tech. A Centenary History of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1987), 495 pp. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1057890. Details
Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-633763. Details
RMIT University History, RMIT University Archives, 2022, https://www.lib.rmit.edu.au/university-archives/finding-aids/ohrm/web/index.html. Details

Ailie Smith

Created: 17 February 2000, Last modified: 21 March 2006

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