Person
Clapp, Harold Winthrop (1875 - 1952)
- Born
- 7 May 1875
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 21 October 1952
East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Administrator
Summary
Sir Harold Clapp was Chairman of the Victorian Railway Commissioners 1920-1939 and Director-General of Land Transport to co-ordinate Commonwealth and State road and rail transport 1942-1951.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Adam-Smith, Patsy, 'Clapp, Sir Harold Winthrop (1875-1952), railway administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 1-3. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080002b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Clapp, Harold, '[The unification of Australia's railway gauges] (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1944-1948 (1949). http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24912. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5662814. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/311116405. Details
- 'Clapp, Harold (1875-1952)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-479171. 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_c.html. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'A Man of Vision - Sir Harold Clapp' p.21. Details
- McCann, Joy; Churchward, Matthew, Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history (Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria Press, 1994), 179 pp. pp.46. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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