Vines, John Anthony (Jack) (1922 - 2010)

Summary

Jack Vines, OAM BCE DipTRP BEc FIEAust FAusIMM FAIM, was a senior engineer with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria responsible for coal mining operations associated with the SECV's LaTrobe Valley brown coal power stations for 30 years. He was responsible for the development of the Loy Yang Mine.

He had a lifelong interest in engineering history. After he retired as Manager of the Yallourn Production Centre in 1987, he was commissioned to write a number of comprehensive technical histories of the SECV operations in the LaTrobe Valley for the SECV, and a definitive history of coal mining in Victoria for the Heritage Council of Victoria.

His significant contributions to engineering were recognised when he was awarded the Sir Willis Connolly Medal by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 2000, and a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2005. The Loy Yang Miners Lookout was renamed the Jack Vines Lookout in his honour in 2016.

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Chronology

1941 - 1945

Military service - Second World War. Warrant Officer 2, 4th Australian Field Survey Corps, Australian Infantry Forces. [Serving in Western Australia, and Northern Territory]

1948

Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1948

Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne

c. 1949 - c. 1952

Career position - Engineer, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works

c. 1950

Career event - Licensed Surveyor, Victoria

1952

Education - Graduate Diploma of Town and Regional Development (DipTRP), University of Melbourne

c. 1952 - c. 1954

Career position - Engineer, Commonwealth Department of Works

1953

Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

c. 1955 - c. 1957

Career position - Engineer, Geelong Harbor Trust

c. 1956 - c. 1958

Career position - Engineer, Hobart Marine Board

1958 -

Career position - Engineer, State Electricity Commission of Victoria

1958

Education - Bachelor of Economics (BEc), University of Tasmania

1968

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]

1974 - c. 1981

Career position - Member, Yallourn Town Advisory Council, State Electricity Commission of Victoria

1980s - 1987

Career position - Manager, Yallourn Production Centre, State Electricity Commission of Victoria

1987

Life event - Retired

1988 -

Career position - Consultant engineering historian

2000

Award - Sir Willis Connolly Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

2005

Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) - for service as a contributor to the development of brown coal mining in the Latrobe Valley, and to the community of the Gippsland region

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Archival resources

Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre

• Research Papers of J A Vines, Author of A History of the Loy Yang Mine - Its Origins and Development to May 1997, 1994 - 2000, VPRS 17918; Vines, John Anthony (Jack) (1922 - 2010); Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details

Published resources

Books

• Vines, J. A., A technical history of Yallourn Open Cut, 1965 to 1987 (Melbourne, Victoria: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 1989), 311 pp. Details
• Vines, J. A., A technical history of Yallourn North and Yallourn North Extension Open Cuts, 1965 to 1988 (State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 1989). Details
• Vines, J. A., Train systems: Yallourn and Morwell Open Cuts (Melbourne, Victoria: Generation Victoria, 1994), 247 pp. Details
• Vines, J. A., A History of Morwell Open Cut: Its Origins and Development to June 1995 (Hazelwood Power Corporation, 1996), 388 pp. Details
• Vines, J. A., A history of the Loy Yang mine: its origins and development to May 1997 (Victoria: State Electricity Commission of Victoria, 2000), 356 pp. Details
• Vines, Jack, Coal Mining Heritage Study in Victoria (Melbourne, Victoria: Heritage Council of Victoria, 2008), 302 pp, https://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/513085/Coal-mining-heritage-study-in-Victoria-Vines-2008.pdf. Details

Journal Articles

• Vines, John, 'Obituary: Jack Vines 1922-2010', Engineers Australia: Civil Edition, 82 (12) (2010), 71, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.817912924510738. Details

Resources

• CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B883, VX101961', B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6059730. Details