Setting the Scene
The EWPAA has recently grown to need some additional lab equipment.  In order to make room for this new lab equipment, Mr Simon Dorries, general manager of the EWPAA, started to move around some boxes that had been stacked on top of cupboards for many, many years.  Simon decided to go through these boxes, and uncovered a veritable treasure chest of extremely old EWPAA publications.

Nostalgia
Rather than just discard these publications, it was thought that many people who have been in this industry for a long time, might find reviewing them a pleasant trip down memory lane.  Thus, the Nostalgia section of the EWPAA web site was born.  Many of the documents are from between 1940 to 1960, and depict the state of the industry during that time.  If you would like to add anything to this section, please let us know, and we will be glad to put on the web site for everyone to enjoy !!!  Keep checking back, as the list of these documents will surely grow !



The Veneer and Plywood Industry (1933)
This is an amazing look back in history some 76 years ago.  Read this publication to find out how our industry was way back then, and compare it to the state of today's industry.  Definitely worth a read !

Plywood House (circa. 1965)
A small publication describing the plywood association, and its effects on the industry circa 1968.

Plywood and Plywood Products Magazine (1959)
Wow - you know you're reading an old magazine with this one. Check out some of the older advertisments !.
The Queensland Plywood Board (1959)
A kind of annual report from 1959, with some great old photos of forest, and an amazing list of all the plywood manufacturers at that time (29 mills just in Queensland !).
Plywood and Plywood Products Magazine (1967)
A full size, plywood Concorder mock up - I kid you not !  You wont believe this....
Plywood and Plywood Products Magazine (1967)
This one will bring back all of those memories of 60's interior house design  - and really old TV's with four wooden legs and no remote control....
Plywood and Plywood Products Magazine (1962)
An awsome publication on boat building of yesteryear !
   

Plywood hanging in the Standply Timber yards, Canungra.Image sourced from Picture Queensland, State Library of Queensland This image is free of copyright restrictions.