• Title
  Volume 6: QANTAS photographic record, 1920-1930
• Call number
  PX*D 294/vol. 6
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1920-1930
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  845415
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  113 photographs
  
• Scope and Content
  Page contents:
  1. With Niefort Scout at Helio[?], Cairo
  2. Lieuts. P.J. McGinness & H. Fysh at Longreach, September, 1919 ; Welcoming Sir Ross Smith at Darwin, December 13th 1919
  3. First Longreach-Winton trip Feby 1921 ; Shelter shed at Longreach ; On tour at Thargomindah ; The original office at Longreach
  4. Aboriginee flies at Blackhall; One of the original fleet - A "BE 2 E" ; First parcels delivery by air in the west - 1921 ; Wild turkey shooting on Wellshot Station
  5. Avro triplane at Mascot, Sydney
  6. P.J. McGinness with the company's original machine, an Avro 504.K Sunbeam Dyak engine ; First hangar nearing completion at Longreach 1922 ; Machines at Longreach in 1922
  7. First air mail carried in Queensland arrives at Longreach November 2nd 1922. Pilot P.J. McGinness - Engineer W.A. Baird, Machine Armstrong-Whitworth FK.8
  8. Group on arrival of first air mail at Longreach - W.A. Baird, N.F. White, Dr F.A. Hope Michod, M. Griffin, A. Kennedy, P.J. McGinness, Fergus McMaster, Hudson Fysh, T.F. Barker
  9. Alexander Kennedy, first passenger to be carried on air mail routes in Queensland & Hudson Fysh, pilot. At Mackinlay, November 3rd 1922 ; First air mail arrives at Winton Novr 3rd 1922 ; Alexander Kennedy at Winton
  10. On the air mail route in 1922 : Tambo ; McKinlay ; Cloncurry
  11. Vickers Vulcan at Longreach ; Bristol fighter at Longreach ; Miss Campbell - "The Angel of Durban" at Longreach, Mr J.C. Matthews, Pilot ; Longreach hangar
  12. Signing for the mails in 1922 ; D.H. 50A crashed at McKinlay by pilot Brain on a boggy aerodrome, 1927 ; The D.H.4 which carried out much early mail route work
  13. Loading freight at Winton ; D.H.9c mail route machines 1923-5
  14. Bristol fighter modified at Longreach as ambulance plane ; Lowering a cripple into D.H.9c machine
  15. The Prime Minister Mr S.M. Bruce & Mrs Bruce at Longreach, October 31st 1924. Pilot Hudson Fysh
  16. Aerial exploration trip to the Comfield River - Wave Hill district - pilot L.J. brain, June 1926
  17. D.H. 50a type mail machine used from the end of 1924 ; Longreach Aerodrome ; Special railway strike delivery of Smith's Weeklies. Pilot P.H. Moody
  18. Aeroplane shelter at Camooweal ; Qantas office at Longreach ; Lord & Lady Stonehaven arrive at Longreach accompanied by Mr & Mrs Fergus McMaster, July 28th 1926. Pilot Hudson Fysh ; Testing a "Puma" engine at Longreach
  19. Scenes at the Longreach Aerodrome
  20. D.H.9 machine built at Longreach to a modified design by W.A. Baird
  21. Lord and Lady Stonehaven before enplanting in "Iris" ; "Iris" & the staff who built her - the first machine to be constructed by Qantas, August 18th 1926
  22. Construction work at Longreach
  23. The Diamantina River channels ; Sand hills on Lower Coopers Creek, Central Australia ; Thomson River in flood at Longreach
  24. Karumba at the mouth of the Norman River ; First air mail plane at Normanton, July 1st 1927, pilot Hudson Fysh ; Normanton ; Loading fish at Normanton
  25. Unloading fish at Cloncurry
  26. Sir John & Lady Goodwin at Longreach, pilot Hudson Fysh ; Lord Stonehaven at Longreach, pilot P.H. Moody ; Mr & Mrs S.M. Bruce at Longreach
  27. Dr Earle Page & Mr Gosvenor Francis at Longreach, pilot Hudson Fysh ; Lord Stonehaven & group at Longreach
  28. The Brisbane Flying School opened March 1927. Instructor L.J. Brain, Engineer T.R. Young
  29. First pupil to be trained and receive his "A" license - Instructor L.J. Brain and pupil G.E. Sampson
  30. The "Kookaburra" search - L.J. Brain & "Atalanta" at Wave Hill, April 1929 ; "Atalanta" at Brunette Downs ; Search machines at Wave Hill ; the ill-fated "Kookaburra" ; type of country flown over
  31. The "Vellore" search - L.J. Brain, welcomed at Roma; the party at Darwin May 1929 ; The "Vickers Vellore" at Cape Don ; coastline during search
  32. Visit to Gervois Range mineral field, Central Australia - Party on the landing ground Sept. 1929 ; shelter built by L.J. Brain ; L.J. Brain, "Atalanta" & Central Aust. natives
  33. Air Marshall Sir John Salmon, at Adelaide, C.W.A. Scott pilot
  34. Aerial ambulance aeroplane stationed at Cloncurry
  35. Mail 'planes ready to depart from Cloncurry
  36. Inauguration of Brisbane/Charleville service. Refueling at Roma - April 17th 1929, P.H. Moody pilot
  37. Arrival of first aerial mail in Brisbane April 23rd 1929, P.H. Moody pilot
  38. Interior of D.H.61 aeroplane showing cabin
  39. Group of pilots at Longreach 18th April 1929. R.B. Tapp, E.G. Donaldson, A.H. Affleck, W.A. Baird and P. Moody
  40. "Gipsy" moth at Winton ; "Gipsy" moth at Charleville
  41. D.H.50.A machine built at Longreach ; D.H.50.J machine built at Longreach. W.A. Baird, Works Manager & J. Walker, Bristol Company
  42. Removal of Head Office from Longreach to Brisbane. Arrival of Managing Director in Brisbane, June 1930
  43. Charleville from the air
  44. Alexander Kennedy alighting from a Qantas mail plane ; Western air mail about to leave Eagle Farm Aerodrome ; Eagle Farm Aerodrome
  45. "Puss" moth machine at Headingly Station, North West Queensland
  46. Unloading a body at Brisbane after transportation from Mount Isa, W.A. Baird pilot ; Aerial ambulance work at Longreach
  47. Air ambulance case arrives at Brisbane from Camooweal, January 2nd 1931, E.G. Donaldson pilot
  48. Arrival of first [?] at Longreach [&] Qantas staff Bo McGuinness [sic], George Dousher, Jack Hazlett, Frank McNally, Marcus Griffin, Arthur Baird, Sir Hudson Fysh
  49. [Unidentified]
• Description source
  
  Contents from album inscriptions
• Variant title
  
  "The Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd ("QANTAS") photographic record, 1920-1930" -- album title page
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 866851
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Hudson Fysh -- signed in ink (p.1)
• Name
  Qantas Empire Airways
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  Photograph albums.
  
• Topic
  airfields
  De Havilland biplanes
  pilots
  Avro (aeroplanes)
  aeroplanes
  
• Place
  Longreach (Qld.)
  Brisbane (Qld.)
  Darwin (N.T.)
  Cairo (Egypt)
  Winton (Qld.)
  Thargomindah, QLD
  Mascot (N.S.W.)
  Camooweal (Qld.)
  Coopers Creek
  Normanton (Qld.)
  Cloncurry (Qld.)
  Adelaide (S. Aust.)
  
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