New Zealand National Airways Corporation

Date: 13 to 27 September 1998 and 16 December 1999

By: Manson, Heugh Cecil Drummond, 1941-

Reference: OHColl-0439

Description: Interviews Gavin Grocott, Dick Williams, Allan Kenning, Roger Kirkham, Matthew Ramsden and J.W. (Wilt) Johnson. Their working experience covers seven decades of the aviation industry in New Zealand including the NAC years. Documents working and personal relationships in NAC and Air New Zealand and the relationship between the airline and political regimes. Comments on the impact the organisation has had on the evolution of the country's social fabric and looks at change in air travel and in the organisation. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 24 C60 cassette(s). 6 printed abstract(s). 2 folder(s) (accompanying material). 6 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: between 1950 and 1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Griffiths, N C, active 1950s

Reference: PAColl-0811-03-03

Description: Exterior view of the N.A.C (New Zealand National Airways Corporation) workshop and offices at Harewood Airport, Christchurch, built in the 1950s (architect: N C Griffiths). Image taken in the 1950s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 245 x 150 mm, mounted to paper

Date: 1962

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-457

Description: Cartoon shows five vignettes: an N.A.C. officer and Councillor Howman using a jeweller's eyepiece to examine various rocks from road diggings, broken footpaths, building blocks, and finally a landslip. They choose the "rotten rock" of the landslip. The last vignette shows the festival organisers in Swanton exclaiming indignantly when they receive the rotten rock. Other Titles - \"Why, the miserable so-and-sos - they could've sent us something a bit fresher!\" Other Titles - Councillor; National Airways Corporation; United States of America Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone 205 x 345 mm on sheet 255 x 385 mm.

Date: 1978

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-436

Description: This cartoon is set at Wellington Aiport at the time of the Air New Zealand/NAC merger. A pilot from NAC is holding up a banner protesting the merger and a man behind the check-in counter is telling a passenger who is checking in that he has rejected the transplant into the new company Extended Title - Air New Zealand merger unfair to N.A.C. pilots Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 320 x 455 mm

Date: 1964

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey

Reference: Eph-E-AVIATION-NAC-1964-01

Description: Shows a map of New Zealand, with National Airways Corporation air routs marked on it in red. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 905 x 572 mm. Provenance: Donated by Kate Olsen in 1997.

Date: 1937 - 1939 - 1961

From: Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].

By: Seaton, Sladden & Pavitt (Firm); Mitchell & Mitchell (Firm); Kofoed & Arnold (Firm)

Reference: Plans-2002-058-034-054/066

Description: Includes site plans by Seaton Sladden & Pavitt (1937); plans of a goods store and new premises (Mitchell & Mitchell, 1939); Alterations to NZ Free Lance Building by N.Z. Properties Ltd, for New Zealand National Airways Corporation (Kofoed & Arnold, 1961). Quantity: 13 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings and diazo prints, on sheets of sizes varying up to 630 x 950 mm.

Date: [ca 1890s-1970s]

From: Rogers, Charles Marsden, 1892-1964 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9542

Description: Photographs of tramping trips, houses in Karori, factories, Crown Lynn pottery, taken by Charles Marsden Rogers. Includes postcards of NAC airplanes and old postcards and photographs of sports spectators, wedding party, picnics and boating. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 item(s) of photographic ephemera.

Date: 1950 - 1959

From: O'Dea, Albert James 1916-1986 :[Scrapbook of posters and pamphlets. 1940-1960s].

Reference: Eph-F-ODEA-1940/60-38-2

Description: Shows a Sunderland seaplane or "flying boat", in the air above the sea, with a hibiscus flower at the right. The air fares are given at the lower right. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) onflyer.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on flyer 227 x 192 mm.

Date: 1964

From: [Ephemera relating to Coronet Peak ski field. 1950-1969]

By: R E Owen (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Coronet-1964-01

Description: A pamphlet advertising Coronet Peak (Queenstown) as a place for "New Zealand's most popular ski-ing holiday", with short paragraphs on transportation, accommodation, ski transport, chairlift, ski school, ski hire, cafeteria and shop, and neighbouring ski-fields. Gives alternative holiday plans, and costs. The front cover shows a photograph of a man skiing, and shows a Tiki Tour logo. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on sheet 228 x 406 mm, folded to 228 x 103 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Coronet-1950/1969

Description: Includes: 1951: Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Company Ltd Ski at Coronet Peak and Mount Cook. Winter sports New Zealand 1951. Originated and printed by Coulls Somerville Wilkie Ltd., Dunedin [1951] 1963: Queenstown for ski-hi holiday tours. Government Tourist Bureau in association with National Airways Corporation and Mount Cook Air Services. 1964: Coronet Peak Ski-Hi holiday tours. Another New Zealand Govt Tourist Bureau Tiki Tour. National Airways Corporation and Mount Cook Airlines. R E Owen, Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand, 1964 (2 copies) 1965: Coronet Peak chairlift; the highest (over 5000 ft.); highlight of a Queenstown visit [ca 1965] (2 copies) Coronet Peak, Queenstown Ski-Hi. Mount Cook Airlines in association with National Airways Corporation. New Zealand Govt Tourist Bureau Tiki Tour 1966: Coronet Peak, Queenstown Ski-Hi 1966. Mount Cook Airlines in association with National Airways Corporation. New Zealand Govt. Tourist Bureau Tiki Tour (2 copies) 1969: Ski-Hi 1969. Coronet Peak, Queenstown New Zealand. A Mount Cook Airlines Skyway holiday. NZ Govt Tourist Bureau Tiki Tour. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1989

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Coronet-1970/1989

Description: Includes pamphlet about skiing at Coronet Peak, issued by Mount Cook Airlines, Mount Cook Landlines, Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Co Ltd, NAC. Includes a ticket (1976), price lists for ski schools 1974, 1975, 1978, and pamphlet titled "Ski-Hi" for the years 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974 (2 copies), 1975 (2 copies), 1976 (2 copies), 1977 (2 copies), 1979 (2 copies). Includes a pamphlet titled "Coronet Peak snow rates 1980". Includes: Coronet Peak Ski-hire, ski-school 1976 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1990

Reference: Eph-A-SKIFIELD-Mt-Hutt-1970/1989

Description: Includes pamphlets issued by NAC Skyway Holidays, Guthreys New Zealand Tours Ltd, Air New Zealand, Value Tours, Tasman Rent a Car. Period covered is 1974-1981. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 31 May 2004

From: MOTAT: Aviation memories oral history project

By: Mackley, Winston Brooke, 1915-2005

Reference: OHInt-0767-08

Description: Interview with Captain William Mackley, born in Lower Hutt in 1915. Describes starting his training as a pilot with the Auckland Aero Club in 1937, in DH60 Moths, Tiger Moths and Miles Magisters. Refers to joining the Air Force when war broke out and leaving for England in May 1940. Talks about flying Wellingtons from Hywell, then transferring to Abingdon and flying Whitleys. Mentions taking an instructors course in Canada, then returning to Nelson and flying Hudsons. Discusses moving to Catalinas which he flew through the Pacific, then to Sunderlands. Mentions the roles of Sunderlands in the Air Force after the war for moving troops, and how two were transferred to NAC (National Airways Corporation) and modified for passenger transport. Talks about joining NAC after World War II and flying Sunderlands and DC3s on its Pacific service, a service that had been set up by the Air Force to transport public servants and officials. Comments on the animosity between NAC and TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways) over the Pacific service and the politics of aviation development in New Zealand. Talks about the basic conditions at the airfields and the social aspects of overnight stays in Samoa and Rarotonga. Describes navigation by dead reckoning using a sextant for sun shots and mentions there was little night flying at the time. Comments on the services to Norfolk Island and the Chatham Islands. Refers to being a copilot and wireless operator on Lockheed 10As and to pilots being interchangeable between aircraft until they became specialised. Comments that navigation procedures within New Zealand were not very precise but improved gradually with better equipment. Discusses transferring to TEAL to fly Electras and becoming a training captain on the Electra. Outlines aviation safety issues today, commenting that less experience is needed to fly planes now, computerised controls, and flight time limitations being "the curse of the business". Talks about getting a job in the Air New Zealand office after he retired as a pilot, and becoming involved in the Flight Safety Foundation, an international organisation. Reflects on changes in the airline industry in 1986 and the Air Safety League of New Zealand. Explains how human factors have become a dominant issue in air safety and mentions accidents that have happened because of difficulties between crew members. Abstracted by - Karen Linauskas Interviewer(s) - Bill Rayner Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-014162, OHC-014163 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (50 Kilobytes). 1 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s) (824 Kilobytes, jpeg). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5123, OHDL-000234. Digital scan of black and white print of photograph of Captain "Dan" Arthur Carlaw and Captain Bill Mackley (interviewee) on flight deck of Sunderland ZK-AMK. NZNAC Regional Service prior to last flight 1/6/1950 to Hobsonville for layup and eventual breakup. (Image includes details written on the back of the photograph) Photographer unknown. Captain Mackleys collection Search dates: 1915 - 2004

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Conley, Peter Vaizey, 1924-2000 :Transparency slides of New Zealand scenes

Reference: PA12-8862

Description: Colour transparency slides of Auckland scenes, taken ca mid to late 1950s and 1960s by Peter Vaizey Conley. This set is chiefly of Waitemata Harbour, Auckland waterfront between Westhaven Marina and Mechanics Bay, and a few views of the city. Waterfront and harbour views include two images of Auckland Harbour Bridge and views of ships include the Mariposa and the Oriana, and [Devonport?] ferry. Views of city buildings include Auckland Railway Station and Ferry Terminal Building. Landscape views show beaches, including Long Bay, one view of a waterfall near Papakura, and a landscaped [public?] garden, probably Point Erin Park. Miscellaneous images include a Volkswagen car parked at Point Erin Park, Westhaven, and a National Airways Corporation airplane on the tarmac at an unidentified airport. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Hare, Evelyn Nina, 1911-1989: Collection

Reference: PA12-12164

Description: Transparencies of South Island vacation, mainly from February 1968. Likely taken by Evelyn Hare. Some photographs have captions. Locations photographed on Hare's 1968 trip include Coronet Peak (including ski field chair lifts, views from bus); Cook River; La Perouse and Aoraki/Mount Cook; Arrowtown street scene; gondolas and buildings at Queenstown's Skyline Gondola; and aerial views of Queenstown, Lake Coleridge, and Southern alps. Photographs that are not dated, but also likely from the 1960s, show locations visited on a Mount Cook & Southern Lakes Tourist Co Ltd. bus tour. These include the tour bus, signs for Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau, and lake views with a Southern Scenic float plane on the water in one and a playground on the lake shore in the other [Wanaka?]. Also includes a photograph of unidentified passengers boarding a National Airway Corporation (NAC) plane at Wellington Airport. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies mounted in card with captions. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card.

Date: 1958, 1968

From: Hare, Evelyn Nina, 1911-1989: Collection

Reference: PA12-12165

Description: Transparencies of a West Coast vacation, 1968. Likely taken by Evelyn Hare. Each photograph is captioned. Photographs show West Coast scenes including the bus on which Hare was travelling; Haast Pass road signs and a roadside scene at Haast township; Fox Glacier view to Aoraki/Mt Cook, a deer in a paddock; coastal views from Knight's Point lookout; Bruce Bay scenes (man on a horse, a farmhouse), Franz Josef Glacier Hotel (hotel building, views from hotel bedroom), Hari Hari (hotel, roadside scene), and Westport Airport (buildings, National Airways Corporation DC3 plane on landing strip). Also one image of the Haast River [from 1958?]. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies mounted in card with captions. Physical Description: Colour transparencies mounted in card.

Date: 1958 - 1987

By: New Zealand National Airways Corporation; South Island Promotion Association

Reference: Eph-C-TOURISM-South-1900s

Description: Includes, in alphabetical order by place: South Island: South Island Promotion Association. New Zealand's South Island; whatever you like to do ... wherever you like to go ... [1972?] NAC; wings of the nation. Levin Mall. Take a South Island holiday, 15-18 April [1975]. Your chance to win a South Island holiday [Tabloid newspaper] Southland: Automobile Association Auckland (Inc). Dunedin, Invercargill itinerary. 1958 City of Invercargill and environs. Invercargill street map [1987] Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1950 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Queenstown-1950/1969

Description: Includes: 1950s: National Airways Corporation. Queenstown holidays; so near by air [1950s] New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau. Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu. Information sheet no. s/5, for visitors to Lake Wakatipu District [1950s?] (2 copies) 1960s: New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau. Come to colourful Queenstown New Zealand. (2 copies, cover colouring slightly varying) Glenorchy Motors Ltd. Journey into Paradise [with photo and biographical detail about host Laurie Smith] (2 copies) Kawarau Jet Service. Jet boating on Kawarau River. Southland News Print [1950s?] Accommodation and Booking Agents, Queenstown Ltd. Queenstown; where you may go today Tanner Couch Ltd. Beautiful Lake District & Queenstown New Zealand. Photo wallet ca 1960 New Zealand Railways Travel Service. Lake Wakatipu holiday [ca 1965] (2 copies) New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department. New Zealand's Queenstown. R E Owen Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand, 1965 (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Tourist and Publicity. Queenstown for a glorious lake and mountain holiday. [ca 1960] (2 copies) N Hatwell. Queenstown New Zealand in colour [Photo wallet] New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department. New Zealand's Queenstown. R E Owen Government Printer, Wellington New Zealand, 1967 Skyline Tours Ltd. Day or night, the view from Skyline Chalet is magnificent. [Printed by] Craigs 13065 [1960s] South Island Publicity Association. Queenstown New Zealand [1960s?] (2 copies) ca 1968: Accommodation and Booking Agents (Queenstown) Ltd. 17 Ballarat Street, Queenstown [Advertising card] Elliott Information and Booking Centre. In Queenstown today; what shall we do? [ca 1968] Welcome to Walter Peak (sheep and cattle station), Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, N.Z> Offset by NZ Tablet Co. Ltd., Dunedin [1968] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on pamphlets and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1959 - 1960

By: Carlton-Carruthers du Chateau & King Ltd; New Zealand National Airways Corporation; Weeks Ltd

Reference: Eph-D-CALENDAR-1959-01

Description: Calendar of six openings, each showing an illustration about a method of travel: July/August 1959: Picturesque - but slow! Bullock team crossing a river September/October 1959: Wellington in the beginning - the harbour with ships and waka November/December 1959: On the 11th of October 1861 - wagons at Gabriel's Gully January/February 1960: They found a way! Steam train and the Raurimu Spiral story March/April 1960: A journey by bus May/June 1960: 1959 - air travel covers the land - shows horserider and his dogs with a plane flying over Publisher and printer given on back cover top left. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Calendar of six openings, with patterned tissue overlay on front, 570 x 408 mm. Provenance: Donated by NAC Christchurch Office, 22 April 1960

Date: 1955-1983

By: Scott, Malcolm George, 1925-

Reference: MSZ-1754

Description: Scrapbook of travel related material, including ephemera, typescripts, photographs, correspondence, relating to "familiarisation travel" undertaken by Malcolm George Scott as a function of his work as a New Zealand travel agent in the period 1955 to 1983, and later travel in conjunction with Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand and Travel Association of New Zealand. Comprises items relating to travel to Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Great Barrier Reef, Hayman Island, Melbourne, London, Philippines, United States of America, Noumea, South Africa, Ivory Coast, and New Zealand. Includes items relating to: Airlines: - TEAL - Tasman Empire Airways Ltd - New Zealand National Airways Corporation - Qantas - Ansett Ana - BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation - Malayan Airways - Air New Zealand - Pan Am - Pan American World Airways - Singapore Airlines Limited Shipping companies: - The Oceanic Steamship Company - The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, including 'RMS Rangitoto' Items, including menus, relating to accommodation providers: - Hotel Rex - Kings Cross Sydney - Lennons Hotel; and Lennons Broadbeach Hotel - Surfers Paradise Hotel, Queensland, including American Bar - Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London - The Mitre Hotel, Hampton Court - Rio Vista Lodge, Laguna, Philippines - Royal Lancaster, London - The May Fair Hotel, Berkeley Square, London Entertainment venues: - Her Majesty's Theatre Organisations: - The Overseas Visitors Club, London - Australian Federation of Travel Agents Also includes newspaper clipping with image of Malcolm George Scott and others meeting Lord Freyberg in England, dated 24 October 1962. Two scrapbooks donated by the Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand - MSZ-1755 and MSZ-1756. Title supplied by Library. Malcolm George Scott MNZITT, was President of the Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand, 1971-1973. Quantity: 1 volume(s) scrapbook. Physical Description: Scrapbook with passport, photographs, typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, printed matter, and ephemera, mounted and laid in, 34 x 28.5 cm. Provenance: Donated to the Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand by Hughla Scott on behalf of her husband Malcolm George Scott in 2008.