From: Jon Addison <Jon.Addison@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Date: Friday, 28 June 2024 at 12:32 pm
To: raynorman7250@gmail.com <raynorman7250@gmail.com>
Subject: Inquiry re. Straddle carrier
Dear Mr Norman
Your request for information was passed onto this office and has been addressed below with a document attached.
In response to your query, there is a straddle truck (referred to as a Ross Carrier) in the QVMAG Collection. It is registered, with accession number QVM:2006:H:0194. For your own reference, a summary database record is attached to this email.
In addition, here is a small amount of further historical information from a field not included in the attached summary:
This carrier began service under contract to Launceston Board Mills for the owner. The carrier was reported by the donor to have undertaken six trips per day from the mill to Kings Wharf and one daily journey to Rocherlea in the evening.
On completion of the contract with Australian Board Mills, additional work was secured at Hutton’s Brickworks, Sandhill. Ownership at that time is unknown (presumably one owner).
The Ross Series 90 Carrier was road registered and would have been a known vehicle on Launceston roads.
The item is not currently accessible to the public but remains in the museum's stores.
Hope this information helps you.
Kind regards
JON ADDISON
Senior Curator, History
QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY Creative Arts and Cultural Services
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Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 8:37 pm
To: Shane Fitzgerald <shane.fitzgerald@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Cc: Shane Eberhardt <Shane.Eberhardt@launceston.tas.gov.au>, Mayor Matthew Garwood <matthew.garwood@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Subject: Re: FW ACKNOWLEDGEMENT REQUEST: Launceston's Straddle Truck
Good evening Mr.Fitzgerald,
Thank you for this acknowledgement as it meets the expected professional standards that an institution such as the QVMAG should be delivering. I requested it as when I raised the issue of acknowledgement with you before you told me that you do not accept the acknowledgement one receives from Town Hall, and contact us, as having anything to do with the QVMAG.
Given your advice here I will address future research requests to enquiries@qvmag.tas.gov.au and I’ll expect an automatic acknowledgement in doing so. If “in due course” turns out to be a rather long time, as in the past, I’ll follow up with a prompt. Aside from that I’ll leave it to you and your staff to divine a requests relevance and importance and respond accordingly.
In any event this request now has a timeline that it was not going to get otherwise. As you will no doubt appreciate information of the kind that I am requesting leads one everywhere all at once and very often to unexpected places. The DEEPhistories invested in ‘things’ is as often as not illuminating which is of course why collections like the QVMAG’s exist and communities fund them, and people invest information/data in them.
Yours sincerely,
Ray Norman
Cultural Producer,
Cultural Geographer
& Researcher
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From: Shane Fitzgerald <shane.fitzgerald@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 7:49 am
To: Ray Norman <raynorman7250@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FW ACKNOWLEDGEMENT REQUEST: Launceston's Straddle Truck
Good morning Mr Norman,
Noting your insistency to receive acknowledgement of your correspondence please consider this an acknowledgement of such.
Whilst I appreciate your own projects are important to you and in your view a priority, it is important to note that we receive in excess of 1200 inquiries per annum that require our small team to action.
With that in mind your request has been provided to the relevant staff here at QVMAG and will be actioned in due course.
It is important to clarify that directing your inquiry straight to my office does not expedite nor prioritise your request over those that are already being actioned or waiting to be actioned.
If you have future inquiries of this nature, please direct through the appropriate channel enquiries@qvmag.tas.gov.au
Kind regards
Shane
SHANE FITZGERALD
General Manager
QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY Creative Arts and Cultural Services
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From: Ray Norman <raynorman7250@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 25 June 2024 at 8:43 pm
To: Shane Fitzgerald <shane.fitzgerald@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Subject: FW ACKNOWLEDGEMENT REQUEST: Launceston's Straddle Truck
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT REQUEST
From: Ray Norman <raynorman7250@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, 22 June 2024 at 8:02 pm
To: Shane Fitzgerald <shane.fitzgerald@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Subject: Launceston's Straddle Truck
SEE https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1677431389697669&set=pcb.1677435066363968
Dear Mr Fitzgerald,
Some years ago, I saw Launceston’s example of this vehicle in the‘shed’ euphemistically know as the ‘PIGEON SHIT SHED’ and true to the euphemism it sat there with deflated tyres alongside various other items covered in pigeon shit. It is lamentable that this is/was the case and that this space remained/remains undeveloped.
I have a number of quite simple before I launch a more extensive investigation to do with the circumstances surrounding this vehicle.
QUESTIONS
- Is there a vehicle of this kind in the QVMAG’s collection?
- If so, what is its Accession Number and what records are available to the public?
- If it has not been Accessioned as is/was the case for numerous items held by the QVMAG, what forensic evidence of its existence is there?
- If such a vehicle has been Deaccessioned when did that happen and under what circumstance?
I look forward to a prompt reply and acknowledgement of this request in order that I may proceed with my research as expeditiously as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Ray Norman
Cultural Producer,
Cultural Geographer
& Researcher
Ray Norman
<zingHOUSEunlimited>
The lifestyle design enterprise and research network
PH: 03-6334 2176 … 0431 070 450
eMAIL: raynorman7250@gmail.com
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ought not to be trusted by anybody.” Thomas Paine
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