Installing the repaired engine in Ross and Keith Smith's Vickers Vimy, Charleville, Queensland, February 1920 [picture]
- Bib ID:
- 5125862
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC P805/1441 LOC Album 1139 copy
- Description:
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- 1920
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15.3 x 20.1 cm.
- Series:
- Nostalgic Australian photographs.
- Summary:
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Installing the port engine in the Vickers Vimy, flown by Ross and Keith Smith after repairs in the railway workshops at Ispwich, near Brisbane. The aircraft which had flown from England to Australia in 27 days, 20 hours, in November/December, 1919, was stranded in Charleville for firty days, following failure of this engine shortly after take off from Charleville to Brisbane, Queensland on Christmas Day, 1919.--Information from acquisitions documentation.
- Notes:
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- Part of the Bruce Howard collection.
- Part of the collection: Nostalgic Australian photographs.
- Catalogue record generated as part of a batch load.
- Title based on information in Great Australian book of nostalgia / John Larkins and Bruce Howard.
- Great Australian book of nostalgia, p.50.
- Ross Smith lower right of photograph.
- PIC P805/1441 LOC Album 1139 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141692527
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Larkins, John, 1943- Great Australian book of nostalgia
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- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1920
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