Item #117848 Tulloch Limited... Dinner. To mark the Occasion of handing over to the Commonwealth Railways the first Tulloch-Sulzer Diesel Electric Locomotive built in Australia. Hotel Flinders, Port Augusta, South Australia, 12th May, 1965 [cover title]. Railways.
Tulloch Limited... Dinner. To mark the Occasion of handing over to the Commonwealth Railways the first Tulloch-Sulzer Diesel Electric Locomotive built in Australia. Hotel Flinders, Port Augusta, South Australia, 12th May, 1965 [cover title]

Tulloch Limited... Dinner. To mark the Occasion of handing over to the Commonwealth Railways the first Tulloch-Sulzer Diesel Electric Locomotive built in Australia. Hotel Flinders, Port Augusta, South Australia, 12th May, 1965 [cover title]

[Rhodes, NSW], Tulloch Limited, 1965.

Small quarto [209 × 170 mm), a menu card comprising 3 printed pages (front cover and the centrefold) of 8 pages formed by folding a large sheet of card down to a quarter of its size, and leaving it uncut and unopened; an original colour photograph (76 × 115 mm) of the locomotive ('The Commonwealth Railways "NT" Class 1400 h.p. Locomotive "Gordon Freeth"') is mounted on the front cover; the toast list is loosely inserted.

A narrow red ribbon is tied around the front cover near the hinge; all aspects of the item are in fine condition.

Loosely inserted is the inscribed table card for the dinner of one Miss D. Pyatt. Dorothy Pyatt OAM (1918-2019) was a pioneer of the South Australian police force and one of the state's early female police officers. In 1951, she became the first woman police officer in Port Augusta, and remained there until 1967. Accompanying this menu is Miss Pyatt's personalised invitation (140 × 190 mm) to 'the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Commonwealth Railways' at Port Augusta on 14 September 1962. [3 items].

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