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NSW Vehicular Ferries - Sound files

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Selected interview excerpts from the compilation cassette tape.

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Part 1: Introduction/The historical significance of ferries/Technical aspects/Disappearing construction & maintenance skills/Cables/Maintenance scheduling/Installation of winches at Mortlake
TYPE TITLE SIZE PAGES
multimedia MP3 1.98Mb
multimedia Real Media 903Kb
Part 2: North Coast ferries/Ashby Dry Dock/Slipping the Murray River ferries/Construction of the Speewa ferry/Remodelling of the Wisemans Ferry for Bluff Point/Towing ferries at sea
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multimedia MP3 1.46Mb
multimedia Real Media 666Kb
Part 3: Hawkesbury River ferries/The 1978 flood
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multimedia MP3 1.39Mb
multimedia Real Media 633Kb
Part 4: Role of ferries in the road transport network/Clarence River & sugar cane haulage/Richmond River/Steam-powered ferries
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multimedia MP3 1.09Mb
multimedia Real Media 498Kb
Part 5: Ferries and the local community/Personal recollections of people who used the ferries/Ferries and tourism/Hastings River ferries/Funding of ferry replacements/Ferry queues
TYPE TITLE SIZE PAGES
multimedia MP3 1.46Mb
multimedia Real Media 664Kb
Part 6: The lives and memories of the ferry operators and passengers/A ferry poem
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multimedia MP3 2.23Mb
multimedia Real Media 1,017Kb
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