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Steel frame of AWA building and old Mangrovite Belting Ltd building c1938

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Hurley, Frank

National Library of Australia

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AWA Building and Tower

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Communications tower that was Sydney's tallest building from the time it was built in 1939 until the 1960s. AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) was a household name from the 1930s to the 1950s as both a broadcaster and a manufacturer of radios, record players and other electrical equipment. The tower was modelled on Berlin's Funkturm Tower, built a few years earlier, and both took inspiration from the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The building is decorated with appropriate symbols of communication, including a winged Pegasus, and the light fittings in the entrance in the shape of radio valves.

Wynyard Park

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Park in central Sydney, originally site of barracks parade ground.

Mangrovite Belting Ltd

Industrial belt company established on the Lane Cove River in 1913. Publicly listed in 1922 , it was delisted in 1993.

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Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited

Large electronics development and communications company that was first to transmit a direct wireless message from England to Australia.

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