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Allison Division of General Motors Corporation
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Allison Division of General Motors Corporation
Air pickup service proposed that picks up a mail container suspended between two poles by a cable and winch which is lowered out of the aircraft. The aircraft does not stop Detailed description and photos in this document.
ansett transport industries, air pickup mail service
Liberty Motors (Aust) Limited had the rights to several makes of cars:and a forklift Kaiser Frazer, Kendall, Healy, Allard, Stacatruc
Collection of photographs of USAAF and RAAF combat aircraft, including: Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Consolidated PBY Catalina, Douglas DC-3, Douglas A-20 Havoc/Boston, Lockheed Hudson and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Also includes DC-3s and Catalinas in civilian use, as well as other airliners.
Images on the postcards are of: deHavilland DH-89 in West Australian Airways service, deHavilland DH-86 in QANTAS Airways service, deHavilland DH-89 in Guinea Airways service, and Avro 10 in New England Airways service.
Contains a collection of photographs of RAAF RAF and Dutch Air Force combat aircraft during the Second World War, including Supermarine Spitfire, Brewster Buffalo, North American P-51 Mustang, CAC Boomerang, Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, Vultee Vengeance, deHavilland Tiger Moth and Bell P-39 Airacobra.
Some of these photos, such as the P-39 Airacobra in RAAF colours, must be very rare.
Contains a collection of photographs of RAAF combat aircraft during the Second World War, include Short Sunderland, Supermarine Spitfire, Lockheed Hudson, Vultee Vengeance, Bristol Beaufighter, CAC Boomerang, Fairey Battle and North American B-25 Mitchell.
This does not appear to be an official copy of the parts list, and may have been a private copy created by engineers or Kevin Kerle for personal use.
Collection of large photographs of USAAF and USN aircraft during the Second World War, such as F6F Hellcat, P-51 Mustang, B-24 Liberator, etc.
Collection includes a large number of large-format unidentified negatives, as well as photos of paratroopers jumping from RAAF aircraft and a variety of civilian and military aircraft from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. There is also a photo of Australian soldiers posing around a shot down German aircraft during the First World War.
Many of these photos appear to be very rare, and feature good captions which help to identify the aircraft, units and even crewmen being photographed.
Collection includes a report relating to a proposed medium-altitude fighter prototype (1943) and a large number of RAAF engineering standards from the 1960s.
This collection appears to be personal notes relating to Kevin Kerle's planespotting and interest in aviation in the 1960s. This includes information about individual RAAF, FAA and civilian aircraft that are involved in crashes or incidents, change their paint scheme or registration, are transferred between squadrons, are purchased, etc. Unfortunately, there is almost no organised system to them and most aircraft are identified only by registration or serial number
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