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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Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Profile: Sir Harold Clapp', The Chartered Engineer Victoria, 9 (3) (1964), 20. Details
  • Clapp, Harold, '[The unification of Australia's railway gauges] (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1944-1948 (1949). https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24912. Details

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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
  • Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://doi.org/10.1071/9780643105553. pages 142. Details
  • McCann, Joy; Churchward, Matthew, Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history (Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria Press, 1994), 179 pp. pp.46. Details

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