Series 151: Australia's domestic air services

PXE 731/1128-1160

series

approximately 1959

Graphic Materials, Photographs

412212

33 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 21 x 26 cm or smaller

1128. Mr R. M. Ansett, Chairman and Managing Director of Ansett Transport Industries
1129. Ansett double decker buses in garage bays
1130. ANA (Australian National Airways) Bristol helicopter
1131. Ansett-ANA (Australian National Airways) Bell helicopter
1132. TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) Helicab Bell helicopter
1133. Loading a patient aboard a Drover aircraft operated by TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
1134. Butler Air Transport, a domestic airline, provides an emergency ambulance service. A patient is transferred to a DC-3 at Tooraweena, to be flown to hospital in Sydney
1135. Small aircraft on sheep station in New South Wales
1136. Four-seater Cessna 182 aircraft operated by Air Charter Tours Pty Ltd, Canberra Airport, Australian Capital Territory
1137. Loading luggage and fuelling at Mascot
1138. Qantas passenger services unit. Three-ton truck with hydraulic hoist is driven up to the loading door level. They cut the loading and unloading of equipment onto the jets by half, September 1959
1139. Ansett Lockheed Electra taking off
1140. East West Airlines' DC-3 nearly ready to land at Tamworth, headquarters of the airline. Houses of outlying Tamworth are seen nestled against the foot of the hills which overlook the eastern part of this country city
1141. East-West Airlines Fokker Friendship, just before landing at Tamworth Airport on its maiden flight out from Holland, in August 1959
1142. A TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) propeller turbine Viscount airliner in flight
1143. Ansett Super Convair
1144. A TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) propeller turbine Viscount airliner in flight
1145. TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) Fokker Friendship
1146. Ansett Electra
1147. Ansett Electra
1148. East-West's Fokker Friendship, 'City of Tamworth', on display at the opening of Grafton Airport, 22 November 1959
1149. East-West Airlines' Fokker Friendship, 'City of Tamworth', is about to depart Tamworth Airport on a scheduled flight. In the background are East-West hangars where all the company's aircraft are serviced and maintained, while to the right is the control tower and terminal building
1150. Ansett Electra taxiing to the runway
1151. Lockheed L-188 Electra
1152. The ceremony to welcome TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) Convair 'John Forrest', the first pressurised airliner to fly on Australian air routes
1153. Passengers arriving at Mascot on Ansett Electra
1154. Interior of passenger cabin of a TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) Viscount airliner
1155. Interior of a TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) Electra
1156. Interior of a TAA (Trans-Australia Airlines) Electra
1157. Cabin interior of Ansett Super Convair
1158. Ansett hostess serving meals in flight
1159. Sydney, showing Qantas House, centrally, and freeway leading to Harbour Bridge, aerial view
1160. Aerial view of Kingsford Smith Airport

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Titled from accompanying envelope.

'Qantas photograph' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1138 and PXE 731/1159. 'Australian News and Information Bureau' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1134-1136. 'Adrian Boddington Photography, 251 William Street, Melbourne' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1131. 'TAA photograph' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1133. 'Ritter-Jeppesen Studios, Lonsdale St., Melbourne' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1137and PXE 731/1158. 'Solomons Studios, 245 Peel Street, Tamworth' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1140. 'Norman Danvers, 44 Pitt St., Sydney' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1141. 'John Warlow, 244 Collins St., Melbourne' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1143 and PXE 731/1157. 'Cameracraft Pty. Ltd., Crane Place' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1150 and PXE 731/1153. 'A Vickers-Armstrongs photograph' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1154. 'Milton Kent, Sydney' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1160.