Avro aeroplanes

Date: Between 1910s and 1930s

From: AFCM :Six albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, and some original photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PA1-f-002

Description: Includes a page showing the four main university colleges in New Zealand, circa 1930s; pages of botanical drawings; pages showing the Lever Brothers' soap manufacturing building, aspects of packaging Sunlight Soap and Lux soap powder at the factory, all photographed by F.G. Barker of Courtenay Place, Wellington. Also includes photographs and newspaper cuttings of transport used by country children going to school, including horseback and riding on cows. Images of various schools; bombers and fighters at Wigram Aerodrome during the visit to NZ of the Duke of York in 1927, including Bristol fighters, Avro 504 fighters, DH4 and DH9 bombers; map showing NZ as it would be situated if placed in corresponding latitude of Northern Hemisphere, NZ Government Railways; mean annual rainfall map of NZ (signed DG Bates, Director of Meteorological Office, 7.6.1911); farm buildings on Somes Island; cattle mustering at White Rock (Wairarapa); views of trains on the railway line between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki before the Centennial Highway was constructed; view of the Jubilee floating dock arriving in Wellington in 1931, towed by two Dutch ocean-going tugboats.

Date: [ca 1927-1957]

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-4161-01-146

Description: All photographs contain captions. The first public parade of the RNZAF at the Opening of Parliament, Wellington. 1937; RNZAF Band undertaking weapon training at RNZAF Station Rongotai, 1942. Portraits of: Mr T A Barrow (Air Secretary); Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders; Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard; Squadron Leader J E Duncan. Photographs of aircraft: DH-4 bomber; Gipsy Moth; Vickers aircraft; Bristol aircraft; Hawker `Tomtit'; Avro 504K; Gloster; Fairey; Blackburn; Grumman Avenger (first top dressing trials at Ohakea, 1948-49); T-6 training planes, 1957 Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1920

By: Murray, Ihle, active 1980

Reference: PAColl-0143

Description: Views of Avro 504 Seaplane 1/2-111799 to 111800 Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1927, 1938-1956

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-4161-01-145

Description: Most photographs contain captions &/or dates. Series of photographs taken during the Duke of York's visit to Wigram in 1927 (includes display of Bristol and Avro airplanes); series of photographs taken during and after the rugby match played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between RNZAF and NZ Army - Includes group photo of RNZAF team (all named); Eric Tindall introducing Minister of Defence Hon F Jones to teams; several taken during the game. Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for UK in NZ being introduced to NZ airmen returned from overseas; RNZAF band at a wartime fundraising garden party held at Dr Herbert's on The Terrace, Wellington , ca 1942; RNZAF Station Band playing at Wigram, ca 1940; Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten with Wing Commander J Checketts, Apr 1946. Three photos taken during the laying of the RNZAF colour at the Anglican Church, Golville, Wanganui (Group Captain C Turner & Rev Culpitt), ca 1947; Squadron Leader G Evatt & Air Vice Marshal C Kay, 1953; band at Ohakea, 1958; Governor General Lord Freyberg with Group Captain A B Greenaway (CO Wigram), 1949; Group Captain F R Dix with TAF officers at RNZAF Station Ohakea, 1950 Photo of Kingsford-Smith Memorial Gift Ambulance, 1948; RNZAF station at Wigram under construction, 1930s; DC-3 aircraft during supply drop training over Wigram, 1948; Squadron Leader Creichton, Flight Lieut Herrick and Flight Lieut Gibson; Christmas dinner at RNZAF Station Milson, 1943 (named on back); meal during visit of Air Commodore G T Jarman to special ATC summer camp at Milson (includes Squadron Leader T Lester & Wing Commander G A Nicholls, Commandant of the Air Training Corps), and inspecting the school unit cadets 1944 Air Commodore G Vincent, acting Chief of Air Staff in the absence of Air Commodore R Goddard, discussing flight arrangements with Wing Commander R J Cohen and Squadron Leader Fisher at Whenuapai, Oct 1944; Air Vice Marshal R V Goddard, Chief of Air Staff at his desk, ca 1941-1943; Governor General Lord Cobham saluting the Queen's colour of the RNZAF during a parade; view of RNZAF Station Rongotai, 1942 showing airmen on parade; unidentified group photo; members of RNZAF marching through streets of Wellington; group photo taken outside officers mess, Wigram (all named), ca 1948; portrait of Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Nevill; Squadron Leader G S Evatt with General John Doolittle on ANZAC Day 1956 at Ohakea; group photo taken at Wigram 1936 standing in front of Vildebreeste aircraft; surplus Harvard training aircraft in storage at Wigram, 1945; Catalina flying boat on a reconnaissance patrol; American Kittyhawks and NZ pilots; Mr Churchill's `York' aircraft (Avro) at Ohakea with Squadron Leader & Mrs Evatt standing beside a plane; a de Havilland being refuelled, 1937; Sunderland flying boats on the water and over NZ coast. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: May 1982

From: Interviews about Rotorua by Don Stafford

By: Brake, Leslie Harold, 1896-1985

Reference: OHInt-0470/06

Description: Self recorded recollections by Captain Leslie Brake of incidents from his days of flying aeroplanes. Describes the closure of the Canterbury Aviation Company, where Sir Henry Wigram was a chief shareholder, in 1922. Recalls getting a plane and flying a service from Gisborne to the Bay of Plenty until the plane had engine problems and was wrecked. Describes tendering for two Avro aeroplanes with Gordon Paul and forming the Brake and Paul Aero Company. Talks about dual control instruction. Describes how the venture became financial, World War II began and he was called into the RNZAF and posted as an instructor at Bell Block, then Flight Lieutenant at Harewood and Chief Ground Instructor at Rotorua and Woodbourne. Recalls flying and being a Wireless Telegraph Officer in the Royal Naval Air Service in the Aegean during World War I. Relates a story about a bomb which landed but did not go off. Interviewer(s) - Leslie Brake Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2854.

Date: Between 1924 and 1927

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2107-F

Description: Panoramic view of two lines of military biplanes lined up on the ground at Sockburn Aerodrome. They include Bristol F2B Fighters, Avro 504K, De Havilland DH.9 and DH.4 airplanes. An unidentified woman wearing a coat and cloche hat in standing in front of the plane on the left. Hangars in the middle distance on the right, and groups of people near the hangars. Possibly relates to the establishment of a permanent NZ Air Force at Sockburn after Henry Wigram signed over the assets of the Canterbury Aviation Company to the government. See article on internet: www.teara.govt.nz/en/aviation/page-3). Photograph taken in between 1924 and 1927 by Robert Percy Moore. Or possibly taken during the visit of H.R.H the Duke of York in 1927. Similar image (Pan-1424) was taken in 1924, but Pan-2107 has a later number given by Moore which relates to others taken around the time the Duke of York was in New Zealand in 1927. Refer also Pan-1464 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Sockburn Aerodrome, Christchurch, New Zealand. No. 692 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 132.0 cm

Date: 1924

From: Buckley, Maurice W (Mrs) :Photographs and albums, including photographs of the Napier earthquake; Southern Cross aeroplane; Catalina flying boat; aerial photographs of the South Island, particularly the Southern Alps; and others

Reference: PA1-o-076

Description: Album of images showing an Avro 504 aeroplane at Greymouth in 1924. It includes aerial photographs taken from the aeroplane, a number of which show the sinking of the ship Ngahere off Greymouth, on the 12th May 1924. Inserted at the back of the album is a newspaper cutting from the Lyttelton Times (14.5.1924) reporting the shipwreck. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown card covered album entitled "The Avro at Greymouth, 1924, a souvenir from Parkinson & Co."

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1424-F

Description: Eleven military biplanes lined up on the ground at Sockburn Aerodrome. They include Bristol F2B Fighters, Avro 504K, De Havilland DH.9 and DH.4 airplanes. Plane identifications (where visible) include G-NZAE, G-NZAH (Firefly) and J, in row nearest camera; and E 3137, H.1966, in second row. Row of military officers and officials standing in front of the machines. Possibly relates to the establishment of a permanent NZ Air Force at Sockburn after Henry Wigram signed over the assets of the Canterbury Aviation Company to the government. See article on internet: www.teara.govt.nz/en/aviation/page-3). Photograph taken in 1924 by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-2107 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - No. 531 Sockburn Aerodrome Christchurch N.Z. 1924; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Sockburn [Aerodrome]. Christchurch Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative

Date: [ca 1920s-1960s]

By: Bridle, Marcus, 1970-

Reference: ATL-Group-00049

Description: A collection of photographic negatives and prints of mainly New Zealand civil and military aircraft, taken by unknown photographers, possibly between 1920s to 1960s. It is not known when the collection was assembled. The earliest images are of an airplane that flew from Invercargill to Auckland in 1921, which appear to have been taken at the conclusion of that flight. The largest part of the collection is two sequences of negatives, one of New Zealand civil aircraft and one of New Zealand military aircraft (which also includes some images of Australian, British, American, and Canadian registered aircraft). The original glassine enclosures for the negatives had either typed or handwritten identification of the images, in most cases. Although many of the negative enclosures that are not typed are labelled in the same hand in black ink, some are labelled in blue ballpoint pen, which may have been done after the collection was assembled. Frequently there was also a set of initials in the bottom left corner of the envelope; either 'WP', 'KM' or 'LD'. The latter was almost always followed by a 'N' and a three digit number. It is possible that 'KM' is Ken Meehan, who photographed aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s; 'WP' may be William Penelligan, who was active in Mangere in the mid-1950s, and worked in the publishing section at White's Aviation. The initals 'LD' are Les Downey, who worked at TEAL and also in the publishing section at White's Aviation. It is also possible that some photographs were taken by Leo White or other staff of White's Aviation. Typically the images are identified by the registration identifier only; sometimes accompanied by a three or four digit number. Some of the enclosures identify when and where the photographs were taken, and those are mainly at air shows in the late 1940s and early 1950s, at Mangere, Waharoa, Whenuapai, Rukuhia, Hobsonville, Ardmore, and Rongotai airfields. The collection also includes photographic prints of aircraft and related subjects, most of which appear to be images from the negatives, and a sequence of prints and negatives originally kept together in labelled envelopes. Arrangement: The negatives were originally arranged in two sequences (New Zealand civil and miltary aircraft) in two metal two-drawer index card cabinets. Most of the prints were purchased by the vendor loose in a box, and he arranged them into sequences according to subject and/or markings on the backs of the prints. There was one sequence of prints and negatives together in labelled envelopes. Quantity: 2724 b&w original negative(s). 413 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: The collection had been in the vendor's possession for about five years. It was purchased by the vendor from a second-hand bookshop in Onehunga. It is possible that it came to the bookshop from the estate of William Penelligan, photographer of aircraft and a member of the Aviation Historical Society. It is also possible that the photographs were originally the collection of Whites Aviation, and were used in the production of the company's aviation-related magazines.

Date: [ca 1930-1950]

From: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0419-152

Description: Papers re AVRO 10 aircraft. Includes advertising booklet. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1930s]

By: Saint, Leslie Elliot, 1914-1999; Breckon, Aubrey Arthur Ninnis, 1913-1989; Raine, William Hall, 1892-1955

Reference: PAColl-10517

Description: Photographic prints of aircraft and related subjects taken in New Zealand circa 1930s. Some photographs were taken by Leslie Saint, others by A Breckon Junior for the Weekly News, and one by William Hall Raine. Some photographs were taken at Te Rapa aerodrome in Hamilton, at Levin, and at Rongotai aerodrome in Wellington. Some prints have inscriptions, either on the back or on the front. One has been handcoloured. Images mainly show aircraft on the ground or in the air, sometimes surrounded by crowds and thus likely to be at air shows or exhibitions. Aircraft photographed include a Blackburn Bluebird (ZK-AAQ), Oscar Garden's Gypsy Moth 'Kia Ora', an 'auto-giro' in Wellington, Charles Kingsford Smith's 'Southern Cross' in Hamilton, Jim Cane's Avro 616 Avian IVY (ZK-ABJ), Len Mangham's Monocoupe 70 (ZK-ABD), a Waco QDC (ZK-ACV), a Comper Swift (ZK-ACG), and two De Havilland DH60G Moths (ZK-AAO and ZK-ADA). There are also photographs of models of a Simmonds Spartan and a Stinson Reliant. Includes photographs of James ('Scotty') Fraser and Captain Malcolm McGregor, both of whom wetre killed at Rongotai Airport, Wellington, in separate incidents in 1936. Photographs appear to have been removed from photograph album(s), as many have parts of photograph corners adhered to their backs. Title supplied by Library. Saint collected the items and also took some of the photographs. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints of varying sizes. Provenance: Donor is the daughter of Leslie Saint.

Date: 1927-1932

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

Reference: EP-8681-1/2-G

Description: Photograph taken by Evening Post photographer between 1927 an 1932. Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-084065-G

Description: Photograph taken in 1931 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-084066-G

Description: Photograph taken in 1931 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1931

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

Reference: 1/2-084067-G

Description: Photograph taken in 1931 by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1930s]

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

Reference: 1/2-084085-G

Description: Photograph taken circa 1930s by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1930s]

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

Reference: 1/2-084083-G

Description: Photograph taken circa 1930s by an Evening Post staff photographer Source of descriptive information - Notes in negative register. Image not seen by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1940]-[ca 1945]

By: Ashcroft, J C, active 1940s

Reference: PAColl-8351

Description: Photographs relating to RNZAF air trainers, relating to Squadron Leader Jack Ashcroft. Jack C Ashcroft (Pilot) and Flight Lieutenant Kerr (navigator) at the controls of Avro Anson 406 taken by Second Lieutenant Keith; close up of airmen in the cockpits of a Tiger Moth training airplane taken by George Weigel; photographs of Vickers Vildebeeste airplanes taken by Colin Seccombe; photographs of Avro Anson airplanes in flight; control panels in the cockpit of an Avro Anson trainer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Outsized print of an Avro Anson's control panels at PAColl-D-1061. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046570-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/2-046569-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).