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[Ephemera, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies...
Date: 1955 - 1959
Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1955/1959
Description: Includes: 1955: Travel Golden Coast Airlines Limited. West Coast services. Timetable and fares [ca 1955] Fly CPA's new polar route - fastest to Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Orient. Canadian Pacific Airlines [ca 1955] Wellington Aero Club. Information folder [1955] 1956: Amphibian Airways Ltd. Aerial tours and charter flights. Airport Invercargill, August 1956. International Agricultural Aviation Show, Palmerston North, 9-10 November 1956. Prospectus for exhibitors 1957: Vickers-Armstrong (Aircraft) Limited. Meet the Viscount, the finest and fastest medium-haul airliner in the world [ca 1957. The first Vickers V.800 arrived in New Zealand in January 1958] Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux. Ligne de Paris a Auckland. Cabine 1re classe, depart du 28 fevrier 1957, Escale de Noumea. Menu, préparé par "La Potiniere" a Noumea. Menu 1958: James Aviation Rotorua Limited. Rotorua New Zealand with James Aviation. [1958] Pamphlet Air pageant of the Royal New Zealand Aero Club. New Plymouth Airport, 28 Febvruary - 1 March 1958. Programme booklet 1959: Wellington Airport. Official souvenir brochure, October 1959 (Cover art by Brian Worthington); plus 6 tickets (2 blue, 2 green, 2 white) For military aviation, see Eph-A-AIR-FORCE Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, offset prints, on flyers and booklets, sizes varying up to 240 mm.
Royal New Zealand Air Force Technical Training School, Rongotai
Date: ca 1940
From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji
Reference: 1/1-021676-G
Description: The RNZAF Technical Training School in the former Centennial Exhibition building at Rongotai, Wellington, showing trainees working on (clockwise from right foreground) De Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth, Hawker Tomtit, Blackburn Baffin (nose only), Vickers Vildebeeste, Airspeed Oxford, and Hawker Hind aircraft. Photograph taken by William Hall Raine, ca 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Dave Brubeck Quartet arriving at Wellington Airport
Date: 28 March 1960
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1960/1132-F
Description: The Dave Brubeck Quartet disembarking from a Vickers Viscount aircraft of the National Airways Corporation on their arrival at Wellington Airport, photographed 28 March 1960 by an Evening Post Staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 6 x 6 cm
Lewers, Neville :Photographs of whitebaiting, aircraft, a river signalman, the Buller G...
Date: 1939-1941
From: Lewers, Neville Robert, 1913- :Photographic negatives, transparencies and prints
Reference: PAColl-6180-04
Description: Five groups of photographs. George Sellars, parachutist, and aircraft associated with the Westport Aero Club (a DH83 Fox Moth), and West Coast Airways (Vickers Vilderbeeste); the work of a river signalman supervising the entrance to Westport Harbour; Whitebaiting on the Buller River; a ministerial inspection of pakihi land development; and the building of the railway from Westport through the Buller Gorge (1936-1941).
Photograph album 1929-1939
Date: 1929-1939
From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain
Reference: PA1-o-985
Description: Album documenting the life and career of Edgar James Kain (1918-1940) from childhood in Wellington until the outbreak of war in 1939. The album includes home life in Wellington, a family climbing holiday in the Southern Alps in 1929, scenes in Christ's College, Christchurch; voyage to England on SS Orford in 1936, including views in Colombo, Aden and Suez); flight training at the Brough Aviation Club; social life, sporting activities and friends in England, France and Italy in the period 1936-1939; and Royal Air Force activities in the period 1937-1939. This album is particularly strong on views of aircraft, personnel, bases and activities of the Royal Air Force in the immediate pre-war years. Kain was posted to No 73 Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force, at Digby, Lincolnshire, in November 1937, flying Gloster Gladiator biplanes. In July 1938 the Squadron became one of the first to receive the new Hawker Hurricane fighters. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Provenance: Donors are Edgar Kain's sisters.