Solent (Seaplane)

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Tasman Empire Airways Limited :A TEAL dream vacation; South Pacific air cruises en rout...

Date: 1955 - 1960

From: Tasman Empire Airways Limited: [Ephemera, pamphlets, menus, advertising, published in the 1950s]

By: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-TEAL-1950s-05

Description: Pamphlet shows on its front panel a Tahitian woman dancing to the beat of a drum played by a man seated in the foreground. Other panels show photographs and illustrations of Samoa, Fiji and Tahiti, with text describing tourist activities on Tahiti. A stylised map shows the air route between the islands, and one panel shows the Solent flying boat used on the route. The front panel is bordered with frangipani flowers. Dated in the 1950s because the Solent flying boat service ended in 1960. One side displayed in "Island style: Dancing the Pacific". Turnbull Gallery, 18 March - 11 May 2013 Other Titles - Its Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 230 x 395 mm. (folded to 230 x 100 mm.)

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Tasman Empire Airways Limited :Blotter. Australia - New Zealand - Fiji by luxurious Sol...

Date: 1955 - 1960

From: Tasman Empire Airways Limited: [Ephemera, pamphlets, menus, advertising, published in the 1950s]

By: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-TEAL-1950s-04

Description: Blotter shows a profile photograph of a Solent flying boat flying low over water. The verso is a pink blotter. Displayed in "Island style: Dancing the Pacific". Turnbull Gallery, 18 March - 11 May 2013 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on blotter, 108 x 203 mm.

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Tasman Empire Airways Limited :Fly to Samoa by TEAL. Designed by W Haythorn-Thwaite Ltd...

Date: 1950 - 1960

From: Tasman Empire Airways Limited: [Ephemera, pamphlets, menus, advertising, published in the 1950s]

By: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd; Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd; Haythornthwaite, William, 1913-2009

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-TEAL-1950s-06

Description: Pamphlet shows on its front panel a carved Samoan figure in the immediate foreground, with a row of five figures in grass skirts dancing in an arc behind it. In the background are three thatched huts. There is a Solent flying boat at lower right. The back panel shows a map of the Pacific with the air routes marked. The inside spread shows illustrations of a carved stick, a bullock wagon, a kava bowl and an outrigger hull; and photographs of a Solent landing on water, palm trees, and costumed dancers. Dated in the 1950s because the Solent flying boat service ended in 1960. One side displayed in "Island style: Dancing the Pacific". Turnbull Gallery,18 March - 11 May 2013 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sheet 225 x 210 mm, (folded to 225 x 105 mm.)

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Flying boat at Evans Bay

Date: [193-?, 195-?]

From: Photographer unknown: Scenes of storm damage and other images

Reference: PAColl-9863

Description: Collection comprises: Military bandsman standing in suburban street. Photograph taken 1930s by an unknown photographer. Short Solent flying boat of TEAL taking off from Evans Bay. Photographs taken 1950s by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) with 5 images. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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Interview with Les Adams

Date: 15 October 2008 and 22 Oct 2008 - 15 Oct 2008 - 22 Oct 2008

From: MOTAT collection talks oral history project

Reference: OHInt-1163-01

Description: Leslie Richard (Les) Adams talks about his RNZAF flight engineering work in the Pacific during World War II before joining Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL), as an airframe engineer, where he worked on flying boats. He discusses undertaking flying boat maintenance and annual overhauls before the Solent ceased flying for TEAL in 1960. Adams describes its gradual restoration, beginning in 1980. He also mentions tours of Solent at MOTAT. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-024383 - OHC-024384 Abstract: OHA-8011 Quantity: 1 interview(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Number of interviews/events: 1

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Interview with Irene Kingwill (nee Zimmerman)

Date: 1 Sep 2009 - 01 Sep 2009

From: MOTAT: Aviation memories oral history project

By: Kingwill, Irene Frances, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0767-22

Description: Interview with Irene Kingwill (nee Zimmerman), born in Ngaruawahia in 1928. Outlines her family background, growing up in Ngaruawahia and Auckland, and attending Auckland Business College after she left school. Refers to working in various office jobs until she started in the booking office at Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) in 1949. Refers to later working as a secretary in TEAL and then as an air hostess on Solent flying boats. Comments on the summer and winter uniforms, and spending three months as a ground hostess before flying. Mentions her introductory flight to Sydney in rough weather. Talks about rosters, flights to Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Tahiti, the accommodation crew stayed in, and the roles of stewards and hostesses on international flights. Refers to safety demonstrations given to passengers, life jackets and life rafts. Comments on the arrival of [Douglas] DC-6 aircraft, to replace the Solent flying boats, and the changes this brought for hostesses and stewards. Discusses going to England on a working holiday in 1955-1956, not being accepted back at TEAL as a hostess, but getting a job with them at Whenuapai Airport where she remained until 1959. Mentions the Solent Preservation Society and her current involvement with guided tours of the Solent flying boat [at MOTAT]. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001700, OHA-7511. Search dates: 1928 - 2009

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Interview with Mary Best (nee Clifton)

Date: 16 June 2009 - 16 Jun 2009

From: MOTAT: Aviation memories oral history project

By: Best, Mary Patricia, 1929-

Reference: OHInt-0767-20

Description: Interview with Mary Best (nee Clifton), born in Herne Bay in 1929. Outlines her family background, growing up at St Heliers Bay, schooling during World War II, and attending a business college to learn typing, shorthand and book keeping. Refers to working for a public relations company, a legal office, a grain importer and in other offices. Mentions crewing on a schooner and buying a sailing dinghy. Discusses going to work for TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Ltd) as an air stewardess when she was 21. Comments on her training before beginning flights as sole air stewardess, later being given emergency training, and the Pacific routes flown by the Solent flying boats. Talks about the second steward worked in the galley where meals were cooked, and tables being set with starched cloths. Mentions stop-overs in Samoa, the Cook Islands and Tahiti, hotels where the flight crew stayed, and bringing back flowers, vanilla beans and plant cuttings, and French perfume from Tahiti. Refers to wearing starched whte uniform dresses until after takeoff, then changing into a dress, and later being issued with a Christian Dior-designed uniform. Comments that many passengers were flying for the first time, and passengers wore their best clothes. Mentions children travelling unaccompanied. Refers to a woman dying during a flight, and a mercy flight to the Chatham Islands to pick up a baby (but not the mother). Mentions leaving TEAL, living in Sydney for a period where she married, and later working at Auckland Museum for eight years as an antiquities officer. Reflects on her feelings about her flying days. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001698, OHA-7509. Search dates: 1929 - 2009

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Solent Flying Boat Preservation Society oral history project

Date: 1992-2003

By: Museum of Transport and Technology

Reference: OHColl-1276

Description: Collection comprises 33 interviews conducted by John Van Duivenboden, Jack Felton, Geoff Freer, Ray Gasparich, and Glen Pettit with 36 individuals who worked with or flew on Solent flying boats. Title supplied by Library. For further interviews regarding TEAL airlines and Solent flying boats, see the MOTAT Lancaster/Solent oral history project held at Library reference OHColl-1131. Quantity: 33 Interview(s). 35 C90 cassette(s). 7 C60 cassette(s). 34 Electronic document(s) abstracts. Search dates: 1992 - 2003

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