De Havilland Aircraft Company of New Zealand

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: [1944-1963]

From: Chan, Lionel Lai-hung, 1919- : Papers

Reference: 97-050-1/09

Description: Invoices re Dominion Federation of NZ Chinese Commercial Growers, IMD circular re vegetable and fruit containers (1944); correspondence re T Whalley of De Havilland Aircraft Co and film screening invitation from De Havilland (1944); test pilot's report; advertising correspondence; and minutes of the Dominion Council of Commercial Gardeners Ltd (1945); Includes expenses claims. Arrangement: Part 6 of large file now in 6b parts (97-050-1/04 to 97-050-1/09) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939-1945

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: PA1-q-291

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. Views show the manufacture of various military weapons, machinery and vehicles and the men and women involved in the work. They include munitions (manufacture of hand grenades); Bren gun carriers, airframes, building navy trawlers and mine sweepers in Auckland; airplane construction at Rongotai, at the De Havilland Aircraft Factory; making caterpillar tracks; making sten guns; and constructing army huts. People from various military and civilian groups are shown working as fitters, flight riggers, flight mechanics; aircraft maintenance; welders, camouflage nets (made by Girl Guides). Activities include army exercises (p 106-110); river crossing exercises; preparation for a dawn departure of a New Zealand Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron; army training (p 76-97); and the New Zealand Air Training Corps for elementary instruction for youths aged 16 to 18 1/2. RNZAF training includes blind flying practice, Hawker Hind training planes, aircraft maintenance, flight mechanics, and Airspeed Oxford training planes. Other activities include the planting and growing of linen flax, used in the manufacture of planes, tires, gun covers and fighting equipment; agricultural and horticural work, including using bullock teams for breaking in new ground; army manouvres (in part in Franklin area, and in winter conditions in the South Island near the Southern Alps); territorial manoeuvres; coastal defence; Home Guard training; a remedial physical education training camp for recruits suffering from foot troubles, painful backs etc.; the making of a new raft designed in NZ which could be constructed in a few minutes and was easily transported; training despatch riders on motor bikes in the snow. Women, in different organisations including Women's National Service Corps, Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Lady Galway Guild, were engaged in driving and maintaining military vehicles; driving for Red Cross vehicles; digging trenches; on parade; as signallers; in clerical work; hospital duties; cooking and other branches of essential war work. Pages 63-75 show the arrival in New Zealand of the American forces; and pages 111-121 portray a visit to New Zealand of Australian and Netherlands personnel from the hospital ship Oranje when the NZ Government, as a mark of appreciation for their efforts in bringing Australian and New Zealand wounded troops, placed a special train at their disposal and took them to Chateau Tongariro for rest and relaxation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [ca 12 February 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/260/06-G

Description: De Havilland Beaver aeroplane at Rongotai photographed circa 12 February 1951 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 22 Jul 1958

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1958/2427-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: [193-]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-8665-1/2-G

Description: Photograph of a De Havilland DH60 Moth biplane (ZK-AAB) flying above the landing strip at Wellington's Rongotai aerodrome, taken in the 1930s by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1939

From: Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955 :Negatives of New Zealand towns and scenery, and Fiji

Reference: 1/1-021674-G

Description: Interior of the De Havilland aircraft factory, Rongotai, Wellington, photographed in 1939 by William Hall Raine. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/4461-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: [ca 12 February 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/260/07-G

Description: De Havilland Beaver aeroplane at Rongotai photographed circa 12 February 1951 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches