The Charles T.P. Ulm collection of historical aviation records, Part 2

MLMSS 3359 ADD-ON 2071/Boxes 1-2
MLMSS 3359 ADD-ON 2071/Item 3X

fonds

1928-1987

Textual Records, Clippings

118280

2 boxes and 1 outsize item of textual material - manuscript, typescript, clippings, printed

Charles Thomas Phillippe Ulm was born in Melbourne in 1898. During World War I he served with the Australian Imperial Force at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. In 1927 he and Charles Kingsford Smith flew around Australia in 10 days. The following year, in the aeroplane Southern Cross, they made the first trans-Pacific flight with the Americans Harry Lyon and James Warner as navigator and radio operator. In December 1928 Ulm and Kingsford Smith formed Australian National Airways Ltd which went into liquidation 5 years later. On a flight to England in 1929 they were lost for thirteen days when the Southern Cross was forced down west of Wyndham in desolate north-western Australia. In 1934 Ulm flew the first official mail from Australia to New Zealand and from Australia to New Guinea and back in his aeroplane Faith in Australia. On 3 December he set out from Oakland, California with two companions in the aeroplane Stella Australis with the aim of establishing a trans-Pacific air service. They failed to arrive at Hawaii and no trace of them was ever found. Ulm was survived by his second wife and the son of his first marriage, John.

BOX 1
1934; Wings and the man. The life and private papers of Charles Ulm, aviator. Written and compiled by Percy Cogger from extensive notes made by Charles Ulm (3 volumes).

1928-1934, 1958-1962; Material relating to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Newscuttings including 'The Old Bus', a serialised version of Kingsford-Smith's (ghosted) book, and a booklet titled Smithy, greatest of them all.

1980; Correspondence and other material relating to The Southern Cross Museum Trust.

1955; Letter from the Mayor of Oakland, California to the Lord Mayor of Sydney.
1930; Souvenir Programme of the Australian Flying Corps Association Memorial Air Meeting and Aviation Display at Mascot Aerodrome. (Programme was compiled by Charles Ulm).

1987; Faith in Australia: Charles Ulm and Australian Aviation by Ellen Rogers, 1987.

BOX 2
1928-1930; Atlantic Union Oil Co. correspondence files concerning fuel and other arrangements for the Southern Cross. Include cables and letters from Charles Ulm and Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

1957-1962; Atlantic Union Oil Co. Correspondence file regarding raising funds for the Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Memorial at Brisbane. Includes article 'Kingsford Smith and Ulm in California'.

ITEM 3X
1984; On the wings of the morning. A historical record of the achievements of Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, M.C., A.F.C.. and Flt. Lt. Charles T.P. Ulm, A.F.C., and their associates, by John Pickering