• Title
  Charles Kingsford Smith beside his WWI Bristol Tourer, which he bought from Major Brierly of Western Australian Airways, and press photographer Jack Turner, with his 1/2 plate press Graflex and camera bag, about to take aerial pictures, Mascot
• Creator
  Sam Hood, 1872-1953
• Call number
  Home and Away - 7273
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  Jun 1927
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  8451
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 glass photonegative
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  "The Bristol was registered G-AUDK. One of the two aircraft used by Smithy, Ulm, Anderson and Hitchcock on their record-making around-Australia flight." (Ted Hood, 9/1988)
  Sydney Exposures exhibition caption: Round Australia attempt, Mascot, June 1927 : Charles Kingsford Smith and photographer Jack Turner with the ancient Bristol Tourer in which he and Charles Ulm were to attempt a round Australia flight. The engine malfunctioned at Newcastle after only 90 minutes flight and they were forced to return. Using another aircraft of the same type, they started again the next day and established a new record of 10 days for the journey. The following year, 'Smithy' and Ulm wrote themselves into history with the epic trans-Pacific flight in another aircraft 'The Southern Cross'.
  Digital order no:hood_07273
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original item no. DG ON4/7283
• Name
  Kingsford-Smith, Charles, Sir, 1897-1935
  Turner, Jack
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aviators
  Bristol Tourer (aeroplanes)
  Graflex (cameras)
  photographers
  record-breaking
  
• Place
  Kingsford-Smith Airport (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Sydney Exposures: the photographic studio of Sam Hood 1925-1950 - State Library of New South Wales (27 December, 1991 - 26 April, 1992)

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