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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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

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://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. pages 142. 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

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