- DICK CLAYTON COLLECTION -
Keeping the airwaves alive CLAYTON COLLECTION DONATED TO MUSEUM The late Dick Clayton was well known for many pursuits and much of his life was spent doing things for others in the community. Dick loved history and for many years was the historian at Shepparton RSL. He started the Darwin Defenders branch in the Goulburn Valley and was also instrumental in establishing a memorial at the entrance to Shepparton Showgrounds. The Rookies Garden commemorates the 2500 Army and 37,000 Air Force personnel who completed their basic (rookie) training there during World War II. What few people know is that Dick was also part of the original push to establish a museum for Shepparton. Dick donated his personal collection of radios, gramophones and telephones to MOVE and they have been turned into a fantastic display that is sure to bring back memories for many. For the younger visitors it is an opportunity to see what telephony, music and entertainment looked like before it could all fit into a mobile phone. Just reading the dials of the old radios, with the original call signs of stations that broadcast across the region, is a walk down memory lane and another way for people to explore our social history.
1938 | HARLEY-DAVIDSON KNUCKLEHEAD The high-compression, overhead-valve engine provided much more power than the flatheads of the earlier 1930s. Advertised as a “smoother, quieter and cleaner” motorcycle, the 1938 had many updated parts and didn’t splash oil all over the rider’s pants.
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