Photographic print, black & white, Lawrence Hargrave's twin cylinder radial rotary engine, NSW Government Printing Office, Sydney, New South Wales, c1977

The model is held by the Museum at B1428.

Constituted in 1840 and closed in 1989. The first Government Printing Office was set up about 1796 in a printery behind the first Government House in Bridge Street, Sydney. This location reflected not only the concentration of the official establishment at that time, but also the origins of such departments in the office of the King's Printer first established in London in 1504. This site on the corner of Bent and Phillip streets in Sydney's government quarter was set aside for a Government Printing Office in the mid-1850s in Section 107 of the City of Sydney town plan, although the Office seems to have operated from the site since at least 1840. The lineal nature of the building, which replaced a small row of timber buildings on the site, may suggest the production line printing processes that were among some of the earlier machine-driven industrial processes introduced to NSW. A three-horsepower steam engine was installed in 1855 to operate the presses, and in 1861 a steam-powered folding machine was introduced.
The printing office closed 25 July 1989 and was replaced by the Government Printing Service.

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Hargrave, Lawrence

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P2903-1/34 Photographic print, black and white, Lawrence Hargrave's twin cylinder radial rotary engine, NSW Government Printing Office, Sydney, New South Wales, c1977

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Photograph of Lawrence Hargrave's twin cylinder radial rotary engine

Object No. P2903-1/34

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