• Title
  Inaugural flight from the UK to Australia, by Captain Ross Smith in 1919
• Call number
  PXB 1694
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  12 Nov 1919 - 10 Dec 1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  412661
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 8 silver gelatin photoprints - 20 cm. x 25 cm. or smaller
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  On 10 March 1919 the Australian Government offered a 10 000 pound prize for the first flight by Australians from England to Australia. The prize was won by Captain Ross Smith, his brother Lieutenant Keith Smith and Sergeants JM Benett and WH Shiers in the twin-engine Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU. They left Hounslow, UK, on 12 November and arrived at Darwin, NT, on 10 December. Reference: Australian Encyclopedia, 4th edn., 1983.
• Scope and Content
  1. [Captain Ross Smith]
  2. [Keith Smith]
  3-4. [Vickers Vimy G-EAOU]
  5. Vimy stuck in bracing wires just after leaving Calcutta
  6. Sourabaya [Java. Labourers position bamboo mats under the wheels of the Vimy to facilitate take-off without getting bogged]
  7. Coolies pulling Vimy out of bog. Sourabaya
  8. Cobbs Creek, NT, where propeller cracked. [Jim] Bennett, Ross [Smith], Keith [Smith]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of new South Wales and Courtesy Mr Justice Ken Handley
• General note
  
  Reference source: God 'Elp All Of Us: three great flights / Meredith Cooper. North Ryde, N.S.W.: Methuen, 1986
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823588
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some photoprints titled in pencil on reverse
• Name
  Bennett, James Mallett
  Smith, Keith Macpherson, Sir, 1890-1955
  Smith, Ross Macpherson, Sir, 1892-1922
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aeronautics
  cane work
  headgear
  labourers
  mud
  portraits
  shovels
  Vickers Vimy (biplanes)
  
• Place
  India
  Java (Indonesia)
  Northern Territory
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1031502

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