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1. Tasmanian papers. 18 November 1931.

a. Autographed letter of good wishes from the Collector of Customs for Tasmania, E.A.J. Benjafield to the Collector of Customs and Staff, London. 19 November 1931.
b. Customs clearance, Hobart. 18 November 1931.
c. Outward Bill of Health, Hobart. 18 November 1931.
d. Ship's outward manifest, Hobart. 18 November 1931.
e. Store list emergency rations.
f. Australian Customs store list.
g. Australian Customs Export Entry. "Southern Sun".
h. Duplicate of above.

2. Melbourne papers. 18-20 November 1931.

a. Customs clearance "Southern Sun" VH UNA, dated 18 November 1931.
b. Ships outward manifest re "Southern Sun" VH UNA. A provisional document of the Adelaide Steamship Co. borrowed for the occasion to meet the requirements of the Customs, no such manifests for aerial purposes for such a flight existing in Australia at this time. "Ships" altered to "Air Liner". 18 November 1931.
c. The first aerial mail passenger list of the first all Australian air mail flight ever issued in Australia. Colonel H.C. Brinsmead, Controller of Aviation in Australia. 20 November 1931.
d. Outward Bill of Health. 19-20 November 1931.

3. Darwin papers relating to the final clearance from Australia on which all papers must be complete for foreign examination. 20-23 November 1931.

a. Customs clearance, Darwin, issued to George Urquhart Allan, master aeroplane "Southern Sun". 23 November 1931.
b. Outward Bill of Health, Darwin. 22 November 1931.
c. Customs clearance, Brisbane. 20 November 1931.
d. Outward Bill of Health, Brisbane. 20 November 1931.
d. Customs clearance, Sydney. 20 November 1931.
e. Outward Bill of Health, Sydney. 20 November 1931.
f. Ship's outward manifest. Australian Customs, Sydney. 20 November 1931. Film Australian Fox Movietone, developed.
g. Passenger list - outgoing passengers. 20 November 1931. H.C. Brinsmead, Bernard Rubin (disembarked Darwin 22.11.31), Edward Victor G. Day (disembarked Darwin 22.11.31).
h. Australian Customs store list. 20 November 1931. Only stores were emergency rations and first aid kit.

4. Waybills

a. No. 1. Addressed to Sir Granville Ryrie, the High Commissioner of Australia in London, relating to items in connection with the Sydney Harbour Bridge, before being opened to the public. 20 November 1931.
b. No. 2. Parcel of Australian films, developed, consigned to British Movietone News, London. 19th November 1931.

5. First passenger ticket by air from Australia to England.  Ticket issued by "First All-Australian Mail & Passenger Service". Numbered, "No. 1". Dated outward journey leaving Hobart, 19 November 1931. Return journey leaving London, 9 December 1931. Manuscript notes on back.

6. Newspaper clipping.
Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday, March 23, 1982. Article titled "Memories of good planes - and duds". Featuring a picture of 'Scotty' Allan'.

7. Narrative, 'Australia's First Aerial Stowaway'.

8. Manuscript note passed between John Dodson (stowaway) and George Allan (Pilot).

9. Maps

  i. Map no. 1. Original chart, first official trans Tasman aerial mail from New Zealand, February 1934, and first official aerial mail from Australia to New Zealand, April 1934.
  ii. Map no. 3. Charts used on the record flight to Perth and return by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain P.G. Taylor.
  iii. Map no. 4. Charts used on the flight carrying the first official aerial mails from New Zealand and Australia to Papua and New Guinea, per aeroplane Faith in Australia. 
  iv. Map no. 5. Trans Atlantic Southern Cross, the unique and historical chart used on the first successful westward crossing of the Atlantic by an Australian, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, June 1930.
  v. Trans Tasman map. Original map, goodwill flight from Australia to New Zealand. Commonwealth Government carrying messages of goodwill from the Prime Minister of Australia to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, May/July 1934.
  vi. Map used on the flight of the Faith in Australia carrying the first non-stop mail from Auckland to Invercargill, December 1933; with notes and air-mail cover.

Official documents, papers and maps concerning early Australian air mail and passenger flights, 19 November 1931-27 July 1934

1263-1264. Unidentified group of men with DH 86A VH-US[?], ca. 1935
1265-1266. People of Timor
1267. Defaulting taxpayer hauls rocks, Dili
1268. Tents used by QEA at 6 Squadron's camp near Ward's strip, Port Moresby, ca. 17 Dec 1942
1269. Lockheed Lodestar VH-CAH operated by QEA for the US Army being unloaded at Dobodura. Fysh was on the flight. (Sgt. Pilot Bird F/O, left foreground), 13 Dec 1942
1270. Lockheed Lodestar VH-CAH operated by ANA, forced to land after Japanese anti-aircraft fire, 4 Dec 1942
1271. QEA Short Empire S.23 Coorong washed up on a bank
1272-1274. Rubber dinghy and dugout canoe, New Guinea
1275. Visiting British celebrity
1276. Short Empire Seaplane Capella G-ADUY destroyed during a water manoeuvre at Batavia, 12 Mar 1939
1277. "Opening the safe" - money changing, Koepang, Timor / Qantas
1278-1281. BOAC Chairman, Viscount Knollys, arrives, Nedlands Base, 28 Feb 1944 / Qantas
1282. Fysh at a ceremony on QEA Short S.23 Coriolanus, 8 Jan 1948 / Jo Fallon
1283. Bluey the Rose Bay Base cattledog, Sept 1942 / Qantas
1284. TEAL Aotearoa and Pan-American Airways Clipper, Mechanics Bay, Auckland / Qantas
1285. QEA Short Empire S.23 Coogee berthed beside RMS Queen Mary, Southampton
1286. QEA DH 86A VH-USC over Brisbane, 1934-1938 / Qantas
1287. Qantas "igloo" hangar under construction, Archerfield, 20 July 1943 / Qantas
1288. Maintenance staff servicing RAAF Sunderland, Rose Bay, Apr 1944 / Qantas
1289. Women "doping" Catalina wing, Rose Bay / Laurence le Guay
1290. Fergus McMaster (Chairman of QEA) arriving from London, Archerfield, 20 June 1934 / Courier-mail
1291. QEA passenger Noel Coward disembarks from DH 86A, Singapore / Qantas
1292. Passenger disembarks from DH-86A / Courier-mail
1293. Family on the Empire Flying Boat promenade deck / Qantas
1294. L to r;  Capt. L.J. Brain (Operations Manager), Capt. G.U. Allan (Scotty), Capt. P.J. Taylor / Qantas
1295. W. Arthur Baird and C.G. Grey at the SBAC's Show, Farnborough, 7 Sept 1949 / Air-Log
1296. Warriors in costume hold a "sing sing" to harden up the Mount Hagen runway, PNG / Qantas
1297. Capt. Denny demonstrates "bully beef bombing" from Lockheed Lodestar flown for US Army / Qantas
1298. QEA operated Liberator, Learmouth
1299. Catalina flying boat 2 (G-AGID) / Qantas
1300. Catalina flying boat 3 (G-AGID) / Qantas
1301. Fysh and party view map of the wartime Qantas route to Europe (longest non-stop leg, Perth-Colombo, over 24 hours) / Rob Hillier
1302. Fyshes and party with DH 86A, 1930's / Telegraph (Brisbane)
1303. Fyshes with DH 86A, 1930's / Telegraph (Brisbane)
1304-1305. BOAC Chairman Viscount Knollys with Fysh and party, Nedlands, 28 Feb 1944
1306. Fysh with unidentified person / SMH; Terry Gibson
1307. Fysh at presentation / SMH; Terry Gibson
1308. First of three Short S17 Kent flying boats, Scipio G-ABFA, Brindisi, Italy / Imperial Airways for Qantas
1309-1310. Liberator / Qantas
1311. USAF Liberator and Mustang, Qantas Igloo, Archerfield / E.H. Turner
1312. Dr Edith Summerskill, Mr J. Harris and Capt. Furze at departure of Catalina G-AGID, service 2Q74, 31 July 1934 / Sivyer's for Qantas
1313. Fysh is presented to the Duke of Gloucester, Brisbane / Telegraph (Brisbane)
1314. Timorese with pack animals
1315-1320. Supermarine biplane flying boat, Timor (?)
1321. Third QEA DH 86 VH-USG crash, near Longreach, 15 Nov 1934
1322. Pioneer flying passenger Mr Alexander Kennedy, his wife and other passengers in a DH 86

Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs considered for Qantas at war but not used, 1934-1945

Scotty Allan : Australia's flying Scotsman / G.U. Allan with Elizabeth Shearman.

Newspaper clippings, ephemera and photographs relating to the aviation careers of Bob Boulton, Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford-Smith, and the aeroplanes, 'Southern Sun' and 'Faith in Australia', ca. 1929-1993 

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to the pioneering flights of Australian aviators Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and C. T. P. Ulm in the aircraft “Southern Sun” and “Faith in Australia”, 1931-1933. Four letters to R. N. Boulton from C.T.P. Ulm, 1929-1934, one on Australian National Airways Limited letterhead. Commemorative pamphlet, ‘Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’,  prepared by Queensland Museum, 1975, Commemorative pamphlet, ‘Presentation of Ulm Memorabilia at the Hinkler Room, Royal Queensland Aero Club’, 1984, book ordering form for ‘Aviators of the Charles Ulm and Kingsford Smith era’ by Bob Boulton M.B.E., ca. 1993
‎1 photograph: black and white ;‎ 18 x 15.5 cm. Bob Boulton, Charles Kingsford Smith and Tommy Pethybridge in front of aeroplane with revolving propeller, ca. 1935. 
1 photograph: black and white; 16.7 x 12.2 cm. 'Scotty' Allan in middle and C.T.P. Ulm on right, ca. 1934. 
1 photograph:  black and white; 9 x 14 cm. The salvage of fuel from the wrecked ‘Southern Sun’ in rice field at Alor Star, Malay States, ca. 1931. 
1 postcard: black and white; 9 x 14 cm. ‘Southern Sky’ aeroplane, ca. 1929. 
1 photograph: black and white; 14.5 x 23.5 cm. R. N. Boulton in front of the Merlin MK-102 engine, ca. 1965

Bob Boulton papers ca. 1929-1993

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