That very day the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD carried the following item : "Canberra,Monday. The Federal Cabinet to-morrow will probably discuss the banning of all references in the newspapers to the departure of a certain ship from Honolulu.
The arrival and departure of the ship was broadcast by the B.B.C. short wave station, but, nevertheless, censorship authorities in Australia prohibited any reference to the vessel. When the Prime Minister Mr. Menzies, was asked to-day whether he had any comment to make, he said that Ministers would probably discuss censorship with particular reference to this question to-morrow." Hmmm!
In the same copy of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, English "MORRIS"cars were advertised under banner headlines crying: "Buy from those who buy from you."and "If you don't buy MORRIS at least buy British." But in the case of locomotives....
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| 3801 doubleheading with non-streamlined 3830 - two survivors , the first and the last of their Class. |
On that same day, a 19 ton single piece 43'feet long steel casting arrived in Sydney from the United States. It was the very first cast steel locomotive bed ( or frame) to be used in Australia, Historically the frames had been built up out of steel plate and riveted together. It was to be used in the construction of the new C 38 Class Express Steam Locomotives capable of hauling heavy passenger trains over long distances at up to the maximum permitted 70 MPH.The first of the Class was the streamlined 3801 now well -advanced in a complete overhaul with a new (German it must be said) boiler!
On that same day, at around 5.00 p.m. at Nurse Bignell's Cottage "Hospital"on Nottinghill Road, Lidcombe....it happened ... and things have not been the same since.
We'll follow this up a little closer to the day. Steel yourself indeed!
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