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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225845301

Correspondence and telegrams with and about Jean Batten, 1933-1938, and Charles Ulm, 1933-1936. Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings on Jean Batten, Captain Hans Bertram, Jim Broadbent, A.E. Clouston and Victor Ricketts, Amy Johnson and James A. Mollison, C.W.A. Scott, Charles Ulm, and the speedboat Miss England III, owned by Lord Wakefield and driven by Don Kayak.

50 cm. (3 boxes)

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Libraries Australia

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Kayak, Don.

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Scott, Charles W., Col.

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Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000618.0x0003e5 ...

Batten, Jean Gardner, 1909-1982

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Jean Batten was born on 15 September 1909 in Rotorua, New Zealand. She and her mother moved from New Zealand to Britain in 1930 where Batten immediately pursued her ambition of learning to fly. In 1934, she flew solo from England to Australia in 14 days, 22½ hours, shattering Amy Johnson’s record by four days and becoming a world celebrity. She became the first woman to make the return journey to England and followed that up with a world record flight from England to Brazil, at the same time bec...

Castrol Australia Pty. Ltd

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Under its earlier name of C.C. Wakefield and Co. Ltd, Castrol sponsored a number of aviators in the 1930s. From the description of Records. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845301 ...

Bertram, Hans, 1906-1993

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C.C. Wakefield & Co.

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Clouston, A. E. 1908-

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Ulm, C. T. P. 1897-1934

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Mollison, James Allan, 1905-1959

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Aviator. Made Australia-England record flight in 1931. From the description of Letter [manuscript]. 1936. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223111809 ...

Ricketts, Victor.

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Miss England III (Speedboat)

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Broadbent, Jim

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Johnson, Amy, 1903-1941

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Amy Johnson was born in 1903 in Hull, England, where her father was a fish merchant. She entered Sheffield University where she earned a B.S. in 1926. After working as a secretary for three years, she became a member of the London Aeroplane Club, located at Stag Lane. Not only did she obtain her pilot's license in 1928, but with the teaching of Jack Humphries, became the first woman in England to earn as aircraft engineer's license. In 1929 she decided to make a reputation for herself by atte...

Wakefield, C. C. Sir, 1859-1941.

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