History of the Telstra Research Laboratories
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Unofficial Staff Related and other Photographs
Be aware there may be some duplication of photographs. Some things I am not sure what they are and have indicated as such.
Gathering to celebrate 100 years
of the Research Labs
Held Sat 22nd
June 2024 at Wheelers Hill Hotel.
Gathering
to celebrate 100 years of the Research Labs
Held
Sat 22nd
June 2024 at Wheelers Hill Hotel.
2023
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held at Valley Reserve in
December.
2020
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held
at Valley Reserve in December.
2016
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held
at Valley Reserve in December.
2015
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held
at Valley Reserve in December.
2014
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held
at Valley Reserve in December.
Clayton
Buildings Refit
Don’t know what for
2011
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held
at Valley Reserve in December.
2010
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held
at Valley Reserve in December.
Dave
Clutterbuck Sendoff
The best clerical person we ever had in
TRL
2009
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held
at Valley Reserve in December.
Internal
Trivia Session 2005
Looks like they had fun.
TTIP
Conference 2005
Telstra
Technology Innovation and Product
conference. See also a series of videos.
2005
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held at Valley Reserve on
Friday 9th December.
2004
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held at Valley Reserve on
Friday 10th December. Thanks to Brendon Edwards for taking the
photos.
2004
TRL Christmas function
Held at Cuckoo Restaurant in Olinda.
Thanks to Joe Briganti for making the photographs available.
80th
Birthday
Celebrating 80 years from 1923 to 2003. Even had a
cake and Dr Karl Kruszelnicki as a guest speaker. See also a series
of videos.
Farewell
Function July 2003
For Trevor Long, Rick Coxhill, Mal Brown
and Bob Backway. Held in the Function room M8.
2002
ExTRLers Christmas Gathering
Held at Valley Reserve on
Friday 13th December. Thanks to Fiona Hamilton for taking the photos.
2001
TRL Christmas function
Held at Caulfield Racecourse.
Thanks
to Steven Spicer for making these available.
TRL
Barbecue
Do not know where or when this was.
1991
IST Closing Down Party
Invite
letter
Thanks to
Evelyn
Swenson for
making these available.
Laboratory
Design
Selection of
photographs.
Mike
Crarey Send Off
I think that what it is.
Monash
Fun Runs
Held in the 1980’s inside
Monash University. There used to be an (illegal) opening in the
University fence we could sneak through.
Outstanding Achievement
Awards
2001
2003
2004
Selection of Photographs Taken
for New Horizons Magazine
Some
photos may appear
elsewhere.
1995
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Auditorium
Miscellaneous
Location
Based Technology 2001
Don’t know anything about it.
Labs
BBQ
In 1987, for the first time
since the late 1930’s, all of the Laboratories were on the one
site. A BBQ was held to celebrate the occasion.
Kevin
Curley Memories
A charismatic leader of the Technical
Services Section in the 1970’s. Mostly his photos.
Kevin
Curley rose from the equivalent of a technician in the post war PMG
to become the first technical section head in the Telecom Research
Laboratories. He was an inspirational leader who had the knack of
dealing with people.
During his career he nurtured many young
lads who may, or may not have been, “naughty boys”, and as a
result, created a pool of technical experts that no one had
previously seen. Without his technical support team, many projects
including crossbar exchanges, signalling systems and computer
controlled digital telephony, would not have been possible.
Kevin
was one of around 350 who escaped from Rabaul during World War II.
Escaping down mountainous jungle tracks without food, medicine or
equipment took its toll on those who survived. His health never
recovered from that time. Even though he smoked, his lungs were in a
bad way from Malaria and other jungle diseases.
Monash
Uni & TRL Digital Courses
Held in 1980’s.
1984
names
1985
names
See also:
Basic
Digital Transmission System Theory Course Outline
Basic
Digital Transmission System Theory Course
Miscellaneous
Course Notes
A
Collection from Gavan Rosman
Thanks to Gavan for making
these available.
A
Collection from Steven Spicer
Thanks to Steven Spicer for
making these available.
A
Collection from Brian Booth
Images have been converted from
slides, so image quality is not ideal.
Most photographs are from
the Nullabor Plain field sites that the Labs used in the late
1960's.
Thanks to Brian for making
these available.
A
Collection from Dave Duckworth
PMG Research, Nullarbor Field
Trips 1966 & 1968
A
Collection from Steve Barnett
Thanks to Steve for making
these available.
A
Collection from Howard Timbury
Thanks to Howard for
making these available. From the prototype shop at 59 Little Collins
Street c1960s.
IST
IST
installation.
Labs
Engineering Library
At 59 Little Collins Street Melbourne in
1978. A massive engineering library once used extensively by PMG,
Telecom Australia and later Telstra staff. They even arranged copies
of pages out of magazines.
Telephone
Standards
Photographs of Telephone testing and the Voice Ear
team testing the quality of voice transmission.
Switching
& Signalling Branch group photo 1 - 1976
Switching
& Signalling Branch group photo 2 – 1976
Customer Services and System Services 20th July 1988
Multimedia Services 28th June 1996
Last updated Dec 2023
