Aeronautics, Military

Date: 1987 - 1996

From: Cobeldick, Trevor Murray, 1946-: Collected papers and photographs

By: Canterbury Regional Council; New Zealand. Department of Survey and Land Information. Land Data Services -

Reference: MapColl-834.48dg/[ca.1987-96]/Acc.39859

Description: A base topographic map of part of the Mackenzie District has been used to show the perimiter of the Tekapo Military Training Area which is outlined and an adjacent area cross-hatched. The legend partly explains the area as 'Defence purposes, Tekapo Military Training Area, Airspace controls'. Both military areas lie between lakes Tekapo and Pukaki. Title supplied by cataloguer Possibly from Canterbury Regional Council. See MapColl-834.48dg/[ca.1987-96]/Acc.39858 Title of base map: Resource Management Act 1991. Mackenzie District Council. Requirement of Ministry of Defence under Section 181 , Tekapo military training area. Produced by Land Data Services, Department of Survey & Land Information, Christchurch Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, scale indeterminable, 57 x 79.3 cm. Provenance: Donated by Trevor Cobeldick, Wellington, 2002

Date: 1940, 1950 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Pickard, D, active 1940s-1950s

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-015

Description: Photographs of the departure of the First Echelon from New Zealand (1940), military operations in Malta (1950) and Malaysia (1951), and Ohakea airbase (1950), taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Also photographs of the Governor of Fiji and Fiji Police (1950) and the Petone Rifle Club (1952). Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1943

By: Revfeim, K J, active 1943-1976

Reference: MS-Papers-9967

Description: Comprises exercise book of notes by Revfeim of plan for guidance system of the V-2 rocket, with marked assignment re same, and clipping re V-1 flying bomb with illustration of device Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr K J Revfeim, Ngaio, Wellington, May 1976

Date: 1937

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, timetables, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-B-AVIATION-1937-01

Description: Programme for a British air display, with aerobatics. There were new types of planes on view: Fairey P4/34, Vickers Wellesley, Bristol Blenheim, de Havilland "Albatross", and a radio-controlled target aeroplane. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on card folded to 260 x 162 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: 1938

From: [Ephemera of quarto size concerning the New Zealand Air Force, military aviation and recruiting, fighter pilots, defence policies relating to the airforce]

By: New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force

Reference: Eph-B-AIRFORCE-1938-01

Description: Souvenir booklet including the flying programme for the display which took place at Rongotai on 4 June 1938. Cover design is said (independent source) to be by Bernard Roundhill. Other advertising appearing in the booklet promotes Imperial Airways, Bell's Asbestos protective clothing, Vickers Aviation Works, De Havilland aircraft engines, K.L.G. sparking plugs, Public Trustee, Pallo Engineering Ltd (modern airport equipment - illustrated is some portable fuelling equipment), Exide Batteries, Hallensteins, Macarthy's Brewery Wellington, Rotax aircraft electrical equipment, Rolls Royce, Dominion Motors Ltd, Ford V8, Dagger engined "Hector" aircraft, SKF Ball Bearing Company, Cook Strait Airways, Union Airways of N.Z. Ltd., Air Survey & Transport Co Ltd., S.T.C. radio equipment, Berger Paints, "Embassy" Cigarettes, Leyland Motors, New Zealand Shipping Company, Shaw Savill & Albion Co Ltd. There is also a recruiting advertisement for joining the Territorial Forces. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Offset print on booklet of 84 pages, each 250 x 188 mm.

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 1

Reference: PAColl-5471-038

Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Leonard Monk Isitt in RNZAF uniform. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).