Corporate Body
Defence Standards Laboratories (1953 - 1974)
Commonwealth of Australia
- From
- 30 October 1953
Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia - To
- 19 September 1974
- Functions
- Analytical Services and Defence Industries
- Reference No
- CA 2556
- Legal Status
- Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Location
- Maribyrnong, Victoria
Summary
In October 1953 the Defence Research Laboratories became known as the Defence Standards Laboratories. Another name change took place in September 1974, the Laboratories becoming the Materials Research Laboratories.
Related entries
Timeline
1922 - 1948 Munitions Supply Laboratories (MSL)
1948 - 1953 Defence Research Laboratories
1953 - 1974 Defence Standards Laboratories
1974 - 1994 Materials Research Laboratories
1994 - 2002 Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory
Published resources
Books
- Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details
Resources
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-610839. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Primary description of agency CA 2552; Defence Research/ (by 1956) Defence Standards Laboratories, Alexandria, New South Wales', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202552. Details
- 'Primary description of agency CA 2556; Defence Standards Laboratories [Maribyrnong, Victoria]. Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2002, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%202556. Details
Reviews
- Cain, Frank, 'Arming the Nation: a History of Defence Science and Technology in Australia' (1999)
Sherratt, Tim, Historical Records of Australian Science, 13 (4), (2001), 538-539. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR0011340521. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_d.html. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 21 June 2001, Last modified: 14 March 2006
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