• Title
  Hood Collection part II, Box 058, nos. 006-020 : Aviator Roscoe Turner; Tugan Gannet 'Royal Art 2UW'; Jean Batten; Praga monoplane test; K. R. Bernard-Smith boiler
• Call number
  ON 204/Box 58/nos. 6-20
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1934-1938
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  401984
• Physical Description
  3 negatives - glass - 8 x 11 cm
  12 negatives - film - 8 x 11 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  6. US airman Captain Roscoe Turner in his 'uniform' arrives from Melbourne after the Centenary Air Race, Central Station, 29 October 1934
  7-11. 2UW (?) executives in evening dress for the christening of Tugan LJW-7 Gannet aircraft 'Royal Art 2UW' at Mascot, and afterwards at a formal dinner at a club, 4 December 1936
  12-13. Aviator Jean Batten does mechanical work on her Percival Gull aircraft, Mascot, 19 February 1937
  14-18. Tests on new Praga monoplane VH-ACH, Mascot, December 1938
  19-20. Boiler at K. R. Bernard-Smith, Alexandria
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to ON 204/Box 58/nos. 6, 19-20
  This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian - Applies to ON 204/Box 58/nos. 7-18
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  US airman Captain Roscoe Turner in his 'uniform' arrives from Melbourne after the Centenary Air Race, Central Station (ON 204/Box 58/no. 6) published in Labor Daily, 30 October 1934, p. 1
• Description source
  
  Titles, dates and contents lists in this series based on the Hood register with additional notes by Ted Hood
• General note
  
  Box numbers are recorded on a typed slip with the negatives but are not recorded in the Hood registers.
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original Hood box nos. 224, 306 (quarter plate)
• Name
  2UW (Radio station : Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Batten, Jean, 1909-1982
  Jean (aeroplane)
  K. R. Bernard-Smith (firm)
  Royal Art 2UW (aeroplane)
  Turner, Roscoe
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  aviators
  boilers (machines)
  christenings
  dinners
  evening clothes
  managers
  Percival Gull (aeroplanes)
  Praga (aeroplanes)
  Tugan LJW-7 Gannet (aeroplanes)
  
• Place
  Alexandria (N.S.W.)
  Central Railway Station (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Mascot (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20800628

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