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Military camp showing the large quantity of wood used.

Synthetic plastics. Making wooden plaster from sawdust a source of material for instrument panels and other articles. It is a potential material for gun stocks previously made of walnut.

Ship timber - timber used in ships construction showing slipway and scaffolding.

Aircraft timber. Training aircraft which require wooden spars and ribs in wings. Wood is also coming into use for fuselages and propellers.

Aeroplane propellers being made in Australia out of native timbers.

Road and bridge construction. Wooden ferry carrying an army transport.

Respirators employ finely ground charcoal as an absorbent for poison gas and (cont) a film of cellulose made from wood pulp on eye glasses.

Sawn timber - wooden gangway carrying an Australian Bren Gun Carrier from wharf to ship

Chemical 'cooking' of wood chips yields cellulose pulp for gun cotton. Nitro-cellulose also made from wood pulp is the main constituent of modern high propellant explosives. Glycerol obtained from wood is a source of nitroglycerin.

Red Cross stores in wooden boxes being loaded into transport.

Fire Equipment. 100' spray through 1/2" nozzle from Johnson Tremblay model HOK

Tank Trap of timber posts, with tank immobilized, its tracks unable to find a grip.

Wind erosion (Mallee Chickapook)

Cumberland state forest showing myrtle Beech Tree ferns and Mountain ash.

Cumberland state forest showing myrtle Beech Tree ferns and Mountain ash.

Eucalyptus botryoides (single species) showing trunk and bark. Cultivated at Studley Park. Kew.

Mountain Grey Gum. Eucalyptus goniocalyx. O'Shannassy Dam

Mountain Grey Gum. Eucalyptus goniocalyx. O'Shannassy Dam

Karri Forest. National Park near Big Brook. W.A.

Eucalyptus Pilularis. Blackbutt. 12 years old. Mapleton State Forest. Queensland.