Introduction The aim of this note is to provide a Steiner triple system STS( v ) which admits a partition into v STS( v) for every v 1 or 3 (mod 6). The STS( v ) obtained in this way will also contain ~v( v 1) subsystems of order 3v. An analogous construction is provided of an S(2, 4, v ) with a partition into v S(2, 4, v)'s in the case v 1 (mod 12). The Steiner system constructed here will als...