Tell me what you know!First Australian Radar Cyclone Photos

These are the first Australian Radar Cyclone Photos
In 1956, during Cyclone Agnes, Tom Sleath and Fred Soutter mounted Tom's camera on a magnetron crate sitting on a chair and took photographs of the Townsville 277 PPI until the power failed. Fred processed the film and made the enlargements of these the first Australian Radar Cyclone Photos.

Radar Observations of a Tropical Cyclone at Townsville, Queensland (1)

 

References
(1) (Radar Observations of a Tropical Cyclone at Townsville, Queensland - Brann, Hennessy and Ryan -Proceedings of the Tropical Cyclone Symposium, Brisbane December 1956)