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Aviation Historical Society of Australia Top: Auster J-5 Adventurer, VH-MSP, at Waikerie, South Australia, in November 1966 illBil REGISTERED FOR POSTING AS A PERIODICAL CATEGORY B 1 j AVIATION HISTORICAL S V L.- m m _' .. 'I ..I 1^' ; . ill liiliilil IP iiillilllB ilfliiilil11 iiiiiilliillM^ . li; ill illiiiliiiii iliiiilps*■11 " ....... l■ll■l■l iiiiiiiiiii iill ill illiilill iilli 111 AHSA VOLUME 20, NUMBER 3 \} [A] Lj contents AUSTER PICTORIAL................................ COVERS AHSA ADDRESS BRISTOL FREIGHTER IN AUSTRALIA 4 P.O. Box 212, Footscray, Vic., 3011. EDITORIAL ADDRESS P.O. Box 63, St. Kilda, Vic., 3182. comment Following my comment in Volume 19 Number 4, and Volume 2,1 am happy to say that the situation with SUBSCRIPTIONS SECRETARY contributions for the Journal has improved somewhat. However, this should not allow us to become Mike Madden complacent as it would take only a short amount of time to slip back to our previous all-time low. To those who have sent contributions and suggestions, my thanks. A couple of the latter I must confess were of such a nature that I found compliance with them a physical impossibility. The ‘vitriolic pen’ may have EDITOR fitted, although it would have been decidedly uncomfortable to say the least, but the idea of getting the Peter Malone Journals in just boggled the imagination. I must also tender my apologies to those who have written to me recently and not received a reply. Unfor­ tunately of late I have been under considerable presonal pressures. This, plus pressure of work, has limited my time somewhat, and what has been available has had to be given to Journal preperation, rather than answering mail. Rest assured however that your letters will be answered. Two issues ago we also reviewed and advertised a publication researched and written by two of our members, Geoff Goodall and Barry Pattison. This publication, entitled Qantas Empire Airways Indian Ocean Service 1943-1946, is currently available to members for $11.00, including postage and packing in Membership is for one full calendar year and a padded bag. It is a must for anybody who claims to be seriously interestedf in the history of Australian includes both Journal and AHSA News. aviation. Only a limited number were printed so send your order now (with cheque or money order Annual Membership fees of $12.00 (Australian payable to AHSA) to Mike Madden, 5 Mast Gully Rd., Upwey, Vic., 3158. This may be your last chance Currency) will be due for renewal during before remaining copies are made available for sale to the public. January each year. PTM INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS All manuscripts for publication in the Journal should be typed or clearly handwritten on one side of each sheet only, and must be double cover spaced. Photographs should where possible have a subject width of at least 5” (12.7 c.m.) or 8” (20 c.m.). This is not essential, but is The ubiquitous Auster is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity which is rapidly making it one of preferable, and photos of all shapes and sizes the more sought after aircraft in Australia today. During the sixties and early seventies it seemed destined will be accepted. to shrink into oblivion, but a few enthusiasts kept the type on our register, and in the last few years the number to be seen in Australian skies has dramatically increased. For those lovers of this noisy, draughty, Where possible we prefer negatives, even if rugged, wonderful machine of a bygone era we present some Australian Austers from ten to fifteen years prints are also sent. This greatly simplifies the ago. Editor’s job. All negatives will be returned and prints will be returned if so marked. If you do not want prints cut, mark “Do not crop’’. If FRONT COVER you are thinking of preparing an article, please Typical of the many Austers maintained with Tender Loving Care by their owners is this Auster J-4 Ar­ contact the Editor at the above address for fur­ cher, VH-PJN, photographed at Willyabrup, Western Australia, in October 1969. ther advice, and so we can plan ahead. All (Photo G. Goodall) work on this Journal is voluntary and no pay­ ment can be made for published material Published by: Aviation Historical Society of INSIDE FRONT COVER Australia, P.O. Box 212, Footscray, Vic., Top: Auster J-5B Autocar, VH-WBA, at Parafield, South Australia, in March 1964. 3011, Australia. Center: Auster J-IN Alpha, VH-COL, at Warracknabeal, in April 1967. Bottom: Auster AOP-5, VH-ABA, at Swan Hill, Victoria, in March 1965. INSIDE REAR COVER 1980 Aviation Historical Society of Australia Top: Auster J-5 Adventurer, VH-MSP, at Waikerie, South Australia, in November 1966. Center: Auster J-1 Autocrat, VH-AEW, at Tamworth, NSW, in July 1967. ISSN 0045 — 1185 Bottom: Auster AOP-3, VH-MHT, at Armidale, NSW, in July 1967. REAR COVER Printed and Typeset by Top: Auster J-IB Aiglet, VH-KAJ, at Bourke, NSW, in September 1968. Loma Printing Service Center: Auster J-5G Autocar, VH-KEV, at ‘Wiawera’ Station, Olary, South Australia, in October 1967. 8-10 Vale Street,North Melbourne Bottom: Auster J-2 Arrow, VH-AFD, at Bruce Rock, Western Australia, in November 1967. Telephone: 328 4080 - 328 4874 (All photos G. Goodall) 43 iiii ■ BRISTOL 170 ■ IN AUSTRALIA by G. Goodall The Bristol 170 Freighter was originally conceived named Merchant Venturer, departed Filton for October 1947. The pilots found that the slope of as a private venture in 1944. Initially it was regard­ Australia on 20 March 1947, only six days after the airstrip caused the fuselage to distort due to ed as something of a Bombay replacement for the receiving its British CofA. The company pilots the tilt of the ground when they parked sideways RAF, but with the end of the war imminent the and sales team on board had flown the previous at the top, and they experienced great difficulty design was reappraised for the civil market. The year’s tour to South America. After extensive opening and closing the nose doors. So on later original Perseus engines were replaced with the demonstrations en route and in Australia, they landings at Wau they taxied at higher power to the readily available, and more powerful, Hercules flew on to New Zealand in July for a two week top of the strip and then stopped facing straight engines, enabling the gross weight to be increased tour during which the Bristol carried two tons of ahead with the wheels carefully chocked. On 23 from 30,0001b to 35,000 lb, and giving better wire and a complete house removal across the October while stationary with the engines shut off, operating economics. Its all-metal rugged con­ Cook Strait between the North and South Islands. the park-brakes failed and the Bristol moved back, struction was designed for low initial cost and This New Zealand visit was to lead to the purchase jumped its wheel chocks, then rolled backwards minimum operating costs. For similar reasons a of Bristol Freighters by Straits Air Freight Express down the 1 in 12 gradient. It came to rest wrecked fixed undercarriage was fitted. Two versions were (SAFE Ltd) when that company commenced at the bottom of the airfield on a road, where its planned for production: the Series I Freighter, operations in 1951 on a freight ferry service bet­ fuselage still rests today used by natives as a boi capable of carrying AVi tons of cargo, loaded ween the North and South Islands for the New house. The aircraft had logged a total of only 250 through large clamshell nose doors and a large Zealand Railways. Their fleet later grew to hours. door in the rear fuselage; and the Series II become one of the largest Bristol Freighter fleets Australian National Airways Pty Ltd were very in­ Wayfarer passenger model, without nose doors, in the world, and as SAFE-Air Ltd, still currently terested in the Bristol 170 for their freight opera­ but with extra windows and capable of carrying up have 11 Freighters in full service alongside tur­ tions, particularly across Bass Straight from to 36 passengers. boprop Armstrong Whitworth Argosies. Melbourne to Tasmania. Through Overseas Cor­ poration (Australia) Ltd, ANA arranged for an in­ When the prototype Bristol 170, G-AGPV, first The Australian agent for the sales tour was itial 3 month lease of a Freighter with view to pur­ flew at the Bristol Aeroplane Company Ltd’s Overseas Corporation (Australia) Ltd, chase if it proved satisfactory. A brand new plant at Filton on 2 December 1945, it became the Melbourne. Their Aviation Division was formed Freighter Mk.21E G-AICL departed Filton in first new civil transport of the post war era. in September, 1946 under Aviation Manager Wing November 1948 on delivery to Melbourne by an Flight testing proceeded quickly, and after lower­ Commander G.D. Nicholl, DFC to represent large ANA crew under Captain F.T. Patterson. The air­ ing of the tailplane and increasing its span to British companies including Bristol. G-AIMC craft was ferried out in ANA markings but retain­ achieve design aims with respect to longitudinal returned to Australia from New Zealand in ed its British registration markings, and upon ar­ trim, a full Certificate of Airworthiness was August 1947 and in October was leased to Qantas rival at Essendon entered ANA service on the awarded on 7 May of the following year. Empire Airways Ltd for evaluation for freight Melbourne-Tasmania freight run. work on their internal services in New Guinea. During 1946 Bristol sent early production G-AIMC was flown from Sydney to Lae early in The Bristol was an immediate success, and as Freighters on sales demonstration tours October by the Bristol demonstration pilots, ac­ ANA were anxious to take advantage of the cur­ throughout Europe, the Middle East, Canada and companied by QEA Senior Captain R.O.
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