The United Bible Societies is an international federation of national Bible societies. It was formed in 1946 by delegates from 13 countries, and now has 200 member societies worldwide. http://www.biblesociety.org/
Records of United Bible Societies are included in the Bible Society Australia archives collection because the Commonwealth/Australian Secretary J.R. Payne was a member of the UBS Executive Committee.
Amy Turner was active in the InterVarsity Fellowship and attended the IVF Conference in Perth in 1946. She later worked as a teacher at St Anne's School, Sale, Vic. She was a lay leader in the Methodist (later Uniting Church).
Charles Troutman was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, and studied at Wheaton College. Illinois. In 1942 he married Lois Dickason. In 1936 Charles became a staff member with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in Canada, then was sent to Michigan in 1939. After military service he became Associate General Secretary of IVF in the US from 1946-1953. He and his family moved to Australia and in 1954 Troutman became General Secretary of IVF Australia. In 1961 he became General Director, and served on the executive committee of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. In 1966 he joined Latin America Mission and moved to Costa Rica. He retired in 1979 and he and Lois moved to Arizona. Charles died in 1990 and Lois in 1991.
The Translation and Text Division managed all Bible translation projects