Aeronautics, Commercial

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: 1942-1943

From: Cox, Geoffrey Sandford (Sir), 1910-2008 : Papers

Reference: 2003-005-2/03

Description: Draft reports, analyses and summaries of interviews with US officials, all re war situation, US intentions after the war and post-war civil aviation. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1920-1993

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1071

Description: Records of shipping and aircraft arrivals and departures; each record consists of a one line entry giving date, name of vessel, master, tonnage and destination or point of origin Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1934-1994]

From: Salkeld, Brian Hope, 1926-1995 : Papers and sound recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-5202

Description: Papers relating to early air services in South Westland and to the South Westland air services celebrations held in December 1994 of the 60th anniversary of the first licensed scheduled air service in New Zealand Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - (A95-033) Donation, Mr B Salkeld, Lower Hutt, 1995

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

By: Anderson, Cecil R, active 1940s; Ashburton Museum

Reference: PAColl-9442

Description: Photographs of Mount Ruapheu erupting, Pohutu Geyser, and aircraft, taken ca 1950s by Cecil R Anderson of Ashburton Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1945-1948

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-128

Description: Multiple copies of official photographs; all contain captions. Series of photos taken during the celebrations to mark Princess Elizabeth's wedding in 1947 - March past held by BCOF outside the Imperial Palace; Lt-Col H C H Robertson taking the salute (also on dias Brigadier R N L Hopkins, Commander 34 Aust. Brigade, Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier (Air Officer commanding BCAIR), Air Vice Marshal P J MacAuley (Chief of Staff, BCOF); another view of those on the stand, in addition to above - Col H M Foster (Commander BCOF Sub-Area, Tokyo), Brigadier L Potter, Col E P Dickson (Commander of UK component of BCOF), Col H S Tubbs (US 8th Army Liasion Officer to BCOF), and Capt W A Simpson (ADC to General Robertson); guests at reception given at Marunouchi Hotel, Tokyo - R L G Challis (NZ Govt representative in Japan), Miss Rama Rau & Mr S D Smith (NZ Broadcasting Unit). Series of photographs taken during three day tour of inspection of the NZ occupation area of Japan by Air Vice-Marshal J P J Macauley (Chief of Staff, BCOF) and Mrs Macauley - Arrival of his C-47 Dakota aircraft at Ozuki airfield and Guard of Honour of men from 2nd Battalion; Capt Ross Wright escorts Macauley as he inspects Maori guard of honour; visit to 6th NZ General Hospital and chatting with patient R W Leach of Greymouth & at hospital accompanied by Lt-Col J A Worsnop, Capt J Manning, Col N Pettit (Senior Medical Officer); Mrs Macauley talking with Sister B Marvin; with Pte M Baker on the rifle range at 2nd Battalion's new camp at Ozuki; with Lt-Col R B Dawson (CO of 3rd Battalion); Lt-Col McCaskill, Brigadier L Potter, Capt Bruce & Capt J S Manning accompanying Macauley & Mrs Macauley on inspection tour of vegetable garden at Ozuki where kumara are grown; looking at `Wasp' belonging to 3rd Battalion (Lt-Col R B Dawson, Sgt D Ashton & Major W Langevad); Mrs Macauley with Major K Mosheim (Officer commanding Army Education Service in Japan). Series of photographs taken during the fire which destroyed the 2nd Australian Salvage Depot in the Kobe Steel Company's property at Chofu. Firefighters include Pte G W Tomlins, Cpl C T R Jaggard, Pte K H Bloxham. Photographs during the visit of Commander-in-Chief of BCOF, Lt-Gen H C H Robertson to Shimonoseki - Shaking hands with Major B Boyd; saluting Guard of Honour from 2nd Battalion. Photographs taken at Bofu of the first Qantas Empire Airways Lancastrian plane on new Australia to Japan air service - Arrival of passenger Capt H A McQuire; unloading mail from the plane; Japanese pressmen watching a reporter from Asashi Shimbun attaching a small canister containing exposed film to a carrier pigeon. Indoor basketball match between WAACs and 2 Echelon (Vera Jackson, Cpl Jack Rodley, Pearl Hunt, Staff Sgt Ray Redmon, Cpl Bill Bailey, Pat Cronin & Pearl Gilmore); group photos of team of sergeants who defeated the officers of Headquarters, 2NZEF at rugby and won the Kobe Cup (all named) and of Officers' team (all named); Major J W McMurray (J-Force Brigade Major) presenting cup to Captain of the Sergeants' team, Staff Sgt P Lyons; photos taken during the match. Quantity: 256 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-224

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance in 1947. Duck shooting at Lake Ellesmere; sign of the Pick and Shovel at Gabriel's Gully; disabled soldiers in wheelchairs watching a horse race; first aid clinic; locomotive having its tender filled with coal at Paekakariki; Herekino State Forest; Lake Wakatipu; The Chateau; Mount Ruapehu; Vogeltown Bowling Club, New Plymouth; Youth Travel Association party at Waiouru; rugby referees examinations held in Wellington (G R Penhale & D Chant); Hilton Thomassen and Jimmy Black of Taneatua Bowling Club, Whakatane (tallest & shortest players). House moving (Dr H B Berney's surgery, Masterton); Horsa Glider home and houseboats (England); Silver Jubilee display of sewing done by Correspondence School pupils held at Central Library, Wellington; English family building their own home; Les Curtice sounding the Last Post; Rehabilitation Committee meeting; R J Jacobs & C O Bell laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, Wellington (view of shops in lower Molesworth Street in background). Series of photographs taken at Ruatoki - Jim Merritt (Native Department supervisor), Rev Rangi (Maori Battalion padre), Takerau Tamerau (paramount chief of Tuhoe) and others. Series of photographs relating to the Post Office training school courses. Named participants included K R Murray, G H Glozier, T J Nixon, H McLachland, R W Hundy, D C Mundy, L W Palmer, H C Waterhouse, A J L Hamilton, B Story, R Innes, T Collins, A S Beck, R Cleary. Courses included engineering, morse code, switch board operators, automatic exchange switches; dismantling and testing telephones, etc. Helicopters (United States); Naseby (children's fancy dress parade); Tekapo; Country Library Service (librarian-driver Evelyn Franklin of Waikato, Coronation Library at Little River, and bus at Gropers Bush); Series of photographs relating to the Government Home Aid Scheme and day in the life of employee Edna Chandler. WAACS for welfare work in Japan - Subaltern J N Bullard & Junior Commander W M White; Pat Pysden and Pear Hunt; on parade (Ruth Ransfield, Margaret Bown and Doris Dempsey); Quartermaster-Sgt M V Wilson and P Cronin; Yvonne Trainor. Hine Hopu (carved guardian on Hongi's Track); Thomas Burn's statue in The Octagon, Dunedin; Young woman planting cauliflowers at Waimate farm; deerstalker's camp in Woodgrove district, North Canterbury; boy scouts in France; hikers on road to Milford Hotel; hydro-electric generating plant at Karapiro; holiday makers on board launch in Marlborough Sounds; Deepwater Cove, Bay of Islands; speed boat racing at New Plymouth; Pelorous Bridge; mayor of New Plymouth Mr Gilmour at civic reception held in Pukekura Park. Opening of the air service between New Zealand and Canada - Captain I N Holyman, managing director of Australian National Airways receiving first mail from Hon F S Hackett, Postmaster General; J A C Allum, Mayor of Auckland and Captain P Taylor. Quantity: 94 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1930s], 1966-1967

By: O'Brien, Clarence T, active 1966

Reference: MS-Papers-1142

Description: Comprises radio scripts done for broadcasting on NZBC; stories about goldmining in the Buller district during the 1930s depression; a Roa coal mine; a Maori in the Mackenzie country; the Haast air service and Rimu Farm Settlement titled `The Haast Air Service', `The Amateur', `The Minstrel', `The Rimu Farm settlement', and `They gave me a gold mine' Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1937

From: [Ephemera, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1930-1939]

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1937-03

Description: Menu shows the airline's logo and a twin-propeller aeroplane on the front cover. The toast list shows that a toast to the airline was proposed by the Acting Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Others present included Hon R Semple, Hon F Jones, C G White esq. The back page lists the directors and staff of the airline. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cover and inside page of menu, 215 x 139 mm. tied with red and black ribbons.

Date: 1950 - 1955

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1950-1959]

By: James Aviation Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1950s-03

Description: Brochure advertises scenic flights over Rotorua, and shows photographs of highlights. The centre spread has a map of the district with the highlights marked and the routes the flights can take. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, on sheet 227 x 402 mm, folded to 227 x 100 mm.

Date: 1930-1950

From: Elworthy, A C :Photographs of early aviation and mountaineering

By: Elworthy, Anthony C, active 1984; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PAColl-0075-1

Description: Photographs, taken by Anthony C Elworthy, chiefly of aeroplanes and general aviation in the 1930s, especially of a De Havilland Dragonfly but also including images of a Pan Am Boeing Clipper, Gloster Meteor, Hawker Tomtit, Bristol FZB and of a Percival Vega Gull. Also includes 1 photograph of aeroplanes at the Canterbury Aero Club. Also includes images of aeroplanes at Nandi, Fiji, circa 1940.. Also, photographs of World War II shipping, including prints relating to the ships Rangatira, Awatea, Aquitane and Aquitania. Also includes photographs of the Maadi Tank School during World War II and 1 of 5 members of 26 Battalion, D Company at Alamein in July 1942. Also, photographs of tame deer in Haast; mountaineering (including images of the Elworthy family) and aerial photographs of Sydney Harbour. Also, 7 photographs by James Ring, including 1 of Jacksons Accomodation House on Christchurch Road, 1 of Archer's punt on the Inangahua River, 1 of Hawkes Crag, 1 of sluicing at Humphrey's Gully, 1 of the Otira Accomodation House, 1 of the Otira Hotel, and 1 titled `Lake Pearson, Looking toward Cragieburn'. Quantity: 160 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1951-1999 [2007]

By: O'Connell, Mavis, active 2007

Reference: MS-Papers-8763

Description: Papers relate principally to the invention of a cargo system, called the Cargon, of loading freight into an aircraft. Also contains material on the SAFE Air (of which Thomas O'Connell was managing director) and on his death in the crash of a Bristol Freighter pilotted by him at Russley Golf Course near Christchurch in 1957. Source of title - Supplied by Library Mavis O'Connell collected information about her brother-in-law's invention and about SAFE Air in general. Cargon System was a patented system of cargo handling, mainly for loading aircraft. Developed in New Zealand by Thomas Mark Antony O'Connell 1952. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photos (Photocopies)

Date: 1935 - 1994 - 2002

By: Fulstow, Ronald Albert, 1934-

Reference: B-161-003

Description: Shows a small plane on a beach with children gathered around it. A man walks towards the plane with two suitcases, and two people on a horse with a group of dogs stand nearby at the left. Accompanied by sheet explaining the history of flying in the area, and the pilots involved. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - 66/200; Recto - beneath image - J G[?] Kennedy, J S McLernon, J I[?] Leech, R Fulstow Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, image 305 x 462 mm on sheet 420 x 545 mm.

Date: 1961 - 1963

From: James Beard & Company :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1960-1990s?]

By: Gabites and Beard (Firm); Robson, Stanley Rex, 1920-1977

Reference: Plans-2009-082-7238-001/077

Description: Plans for a two-storeyed building, many made by consulting engineer, S Rex Robson. They include: 001-020: Exterior perspective drawings, site plan, elevations, sections, details of boiler house and paint shop, window and louvre details, lightcourt elevations, stair details 021-040: Details of toilet, locker room, Screened room, laboratory, interior glazing, sliding doors, kitchen, switch room, waste payout, foundation and ground floor slab details, foundation wall reinforcing 041-060: Roof and first floor truss details, column details, steel deck floors, precast concrete units, boiler house structure, foundations and ground floor slab, revised design for boiler house and paint shop block, water connection locality plan, site layout revised to include Meteorological store, overall floor plan 061-077: 2nd scheme sketch plans (floor plans), revised site layout, 3rd scheme sketch floor plans, floor plans, elevations and sections, kitchen details, charts about seismic moments. Quantity: 77 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on draughting paper, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Ms-Group-1803.

Date: 1921-1987

By: Scrimgeour, Colin Graham, 1903-1987

Reference: MS-Group-0051

Description: The collection relates to the full range of Scrimgeour's interests and activities throughout his life. These cover his work as a Methodist City Missioner, his Friendly Road broadcasts and his career as Controller of the National Commercial Broadcasting Service; his work in China (including correspondence with and material about Rewi Alley), for the International Protein Organization and for the Associated Network Group which unsuccessfully applied to operate a second television channel in 1969, and his private interests in aviation, open-heart surgery and current affairs; there are also a number of autobiographical and philosophical jottings scattered through the collection. Source of title - Supplied title Arrangement: Folders arranged into series Quantity: 136 folder(s). 11 volume(s). 3.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holgraphs, mss, typescripts, printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available. Transfers: To Oral History Collection - 22 cassette and reel to reel tapes - To Drawings & Prints Collection - Two cartoons. Processing information: Access restrictions removed from Series 1, and 3-11, March 2023.

Date: 1971

From: Air New Zealand Ltd :[Ephemera of octavo size, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to Air New Zealand flights, routes and aircraft]

By: Air New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-ANZ-1971-02

Description: Advertises New Zealand as a tourist destination via Jet Air New Zealand DC-8. The front cover features a woman dressed in traditional Maori costume amidst palm and fern fronds and a beach background. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Folded pamphlet of 12 pages, 595 x 225 mm, folded to 225 x 95 mm.

Date: 1935

By: Trans-Tasman Air Service Development Company Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-5321

Description: Full title: `Rough copy of proposals for Trans-Tasman air mail and passenger services submitted to Government of the Commonwealth of Australia. Particular attention is drawn to the alternative proposals and the additional information thereon set out from page 30.' Kingsford Smith, Governing Director of the company, outlines proposals, including financial projections, for Trans-Tasman air services based on an experimental 6-month trial service with either land or sea planes. Capt P G Taylor, also a director, reported on meteorological and navigational aspects of the proposed operation. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (34 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1947 - 1970

From: [Ephemera relating to hotels, motels, hostels and other accommodation in Auckland. 1900-1999]

Reference: Eph-A-HOTEL-Auckland-1950s-01

Description: Horizontal label in blue and black on white, shows the logo for the NAC airline, and the name of the Royal Hotel in Auckland. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 65 x 107 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a private vendor in 2013.

Date: [ca 1959-ca 1963], 1975-1983

From: Howse, Murray David, 1927-1986 :Photographs relating to Pitcairn Island and the Howse family

Reference: PA1-q-1182

Description: Album containing photographs of events associated with Pitcairn Island, taken in New Zealand and on the island. Also contains newspaper clippings and newsletters and one inwards letter related to these events. Some images are captioned. Taken by unidentified photographer(s) between 1959-1962, and 1975 to 1983. - Black and white photographs show Murray Howse, his wife Rita Howse and three children Gary David, Lynette Anne and Janice Mary on Pitcairn Island circa 1959-1962. Also shows Murray Howse with Andrew Young, and Young with relatives outside the Milburn Cement factory at Napier in 1975, on occasion of Young's return to Pitcairn Island from Napier in 1975. - Colour photographs show: Pitcairn Islanders and associated people at a ceremony at a Seventh Day Adventist church in Wellington 1981, and an exterior view of a house owned by Leona and Tony. Also shows Pitcairn Islanders at Kauaeranga Forest Camp circa early 1980s. Also shows scenes of the Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules aeroplane flying over Aute Valley on the first air drop to Pitcairn Island on 21 February 1983, locals watching, and Andrew Young with daughter Dobrey and the mailbag. Also shows the launch of an aluminium longboat (designed for Pitcairn Island) in an Auckland marina, with Tony Harvey, McMullen & Wing boatbuilder, and others taken April 1983. - Also contains related loose material: newspaper clipping, an inwards letter from Pastor Peter Harry Ballis on behalf of the Pitcairn Island Club, pages of a newsletter, and four small black and white photographic prints of Pitcairn Island stamps. Inscriptions: Album cover inscribed 'Pitcairn, Wellington visit, Xmas at camp, airdrop, Andrew's farewell at Napier 1975' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 4 item(s) of photographic ephemera (b&w photographic prints of Pitcairn Island stamps). Physical Description: Tan vinyl ringbinder album with gold lettering on front cover, 30 x 35 cm

Date: 1981-1985, Mar 2014

From: Howse, Murray David, 1927-1986 :Papers relating to Pitcairn Island and the Howse family

Reference: MS-Papers-11714

Description: Comprises material relating to the first air drop to Pitcairn Island in 1983 which included commemorative philatic covers produced by the Pitcairn Administration and seven covers produced by former Education Officer Education Murray Howse. Contains inward and outward correspondence, newspaper cuttings and copies of the serial `Pitcairn Miscellany' dated 1985. Also includes note written by vendor David Smitham in March 2014 concerning the history of the 1983 air drop and the production of philatic covers (envelopes) to commemorate this event. On 21 February 1983 the Royal New Zealand Air Force made the first air drop over Pitcairn Island. The first drop consisted of mail, a toy bulldozer and peaches. It was a trial for the second air drop of a bulldozer. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter