Timothy Coyle photographs of aeroplanes, trains, and ferries in Sydney, 1965-1977

ON 593
PXB 765
SLIDES 312

fonds

1965-1977

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1331488

85 photographic negatives - 35 mm - Ilford Panchromatic, Kodak Safety
83 photographic prints - colour
212 photographic slides - 35 mm - mostly Kodachrome or Ektachrome

Timothy Coyle was an employee in the Procurement and Supply Department at Qantas during the 1960s and 70s.

ON 593
Negatives of: Qantas, BOAC, US Air Force Military Transport Service, Navy, NASA, Capitol, Ansett, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Canadian Pacific, Lufthansa, Flying Tiger Line, RAAN, Airfast, and Pan American aeroplanes. Labels read 'RAAF Rich '65, Globemaster, Hastings, P-3, NASA, Connie, Hastings', 'Electro, PAA 707 - 138B Washdown, - L188C, BOAC 436, CPA BRIT, QF 338 New delivery', 'USAF 1965 Mascot'. 1965. Decommissioned steam locomotives, Enfield, 1973.

PXB 765
Album containing photographic prints of aeroplanes and helicopters on tarmac, taking off and landing, and in hangars at airports in Sydney, 1965-1966. Aircraft include: US cargo airline, Flying Tigers, L1049 Super Constellation, Adastra Aerial Surveys, Qantas B747-238, TAA B747 and DC-9, Airfast DC-3, Air New Zealand DC-8, Ansett M.A.L. Bristol Freighter, BOAC Comet, Vickers Viscount, Canadian Pacific Airlines Bristol Britannia CF-CZD, Qantas B707-338C, BOAC-Cunard B707, Pan American B707, BPAC Comet 4, US Marines Hercules, Alitalia DC8, TAA Lockheed Electra, Royal New Zealand Air Force DC 6, Capital Airways Lockheed 749 Constellation, US Air Force B-57, C-124 Globemaster, and KC-97, US Navy P-3 Orion, Qantas DC-4, World Airways charter airline B707, Lufthansa B707, NASA Lockheed Constellation, RAAF Iriquois and Dakota, US Air Force C118, RAAF VIP transport Convair 440, French Navy C-54. Album also contains photographs of Tim Coyle with other Qantas Procurement and Supply Department trainees and Captain Peter Compton, John Howells, and Kevin McSwayn.

SLIDES 312
SHEET 1
Ansett Flying Boat Services, Rose Bay NSW, February-May 1974. Aircraft include: VH-BRC Beachcomber, Short Sandringham, and VH-BRF Islander, modified Short Sunderland. Aircraft referred to as ‘BRC’ and ‘BRF’ in this listing.
1. BRC and BRF moored to buoys at Rose Bay.
2. BRC taxiing for take-off off Point Piper.
3. BRF on beaching gear at Rose Bay base.
4. BRC on beaching gear Rose Bay base.
5. BRF on beaching gear Rose Bay base seen from slipway.
6. BRC on beaching gear, forward part.
7. BRC entering water from Rose Bay slipway.
8. BRC mooring to buoy at Rose Bay.
9. BRC mooring to buoy at Rose Bay.
10. BRC leaving dock at Rose Bay.
11. BRC on beaching gear, Rose Bay.
12. BRC being towed to slipway.
13. BRC mooring to buoy at Rose Bay.
14. BRC at dock, Rose Bay.
15. BRF seen from BRC flight deck.
16. BRC flight deck, captain’s position.
17. BRC flight deck, main pilot's panels.
18. BRC flight deck, overhead panel.
19. BRC electronics systems rack.
20. BRC flight engineer panel.
21. BRC flight deck driftmeter.
22. BRC interior, view beginning take-off.
23. BRC departing Rose Bay dock.
24. BRF on maintenance in Rose Bay hangar.

SHEET 2
25. BRF on maintenance, Rose Bay hangar, forward part.
26. BRC on maintenance, Rose Bay hangar, showing planing hull.
27. BRC on maintenance, Rose Bay hangar, forward part.
28. BRC upper cabin interior.
29. BRC at dock, BRF on buoy, Rose Bay.
30. BRC at dock.
31. BRC at dock, also showing Department of Transport (DoT) safety boat.
32. Rose Bay dock with BRC on buoy.
33. Rose Bay small craft compound with DoT boats and flying boat on buoy.
34. Flagstaffs on BRC: Australian national Flag, DoT flag, and Antilles Airboats flag (purchaser of the flying boats after conclusion of Lord Howe Island services).
35. Flying Boat seen from Farm Cove.
36. Flying Boat seen from Mosman.
37. BRC underwing view of forward section.
38. Loading passengers at dock.
39. BRC tail section.
40. BRC cockpit section exterior.
41. BRC cockpit window close-up.
42. BRC underwing view with Ansett station manager.
43. BRC number 2 Pratt and Whitney 1340 engine and propeller.
44. BRC dockside, view left side.
45. BRC top of fuselage showing two automatic direction finder housings.
46. BRC number one engine and wing tip float.
47. BRC top of fuselage numbers 3 and 4 engines.
48-48B. BRC upper cabin interior.

SHEET 3
49. BRC in flight, number 4 engine.
50. BRC in flight, numbers 3 and 4 engines.
51. BRC in flight, right wing.
52. BRC in flight, deck with pilots.
53. BRC in flight over eastern suburbs, view from interior.
54. BRC in flight over eastern suburbs, view from interior.
55. BRC in flight, lower cabin.
55A. BRC in flight, upper cabin.
56. Flying Boat in flight, from ground.

Rose Bay base.
57. ‘To Air Port’ impressed into curb, New South Head Road.
58. ‘Sydney Water Airport’ sign at base entrance (after closure).
59. Flying boat dock after closure.
60. Main gate after closure.
61. Main entrance before closure.
62. Rear of hangar facing Lyne Park.
63. DoT safety boat and terminal building before closure.
64. Hangar and hardstand after closure.
65. Fuel hydrants before closure.
66. Internal road and dock.
67. Sea wall and terminal building before closure. Red and yellow tower flashed airport ID at night.
68. Hangar with BRC inside.
69. Dock after closure.

SHEET 4
70. View of dock from road with flying boat before closure.
71. Late afternoon view of flying boat at dock.

Aircraft at Sydney Airport 1967 to 1976. Adastra Aerial Surveys (AAS) September 1973 and May 1974. AAS operated World War 2 vintage Lockheed Hudson aircraft on aerial surveys.
47. VHAGJ Adastra Aerial Surveys Lockheed Hudson.
12. AAS Hudson in hangar on maintenance.
13. AAS Hudson in hangar on maintenance close-up.
4. AAS Hudson close-up showing former bomb aimers position in nose, which was also useful for aerial survey.

US Navy Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CincPac) personal aircraft, December 1975, C-118 (military variant of Douglas DC-6).
21. Tail section of C-118.
22. C-118 underwing view showing numbers one and two engines and forward section.

Other aircraft.
12. South African Airways B707 ZS-DYL at old Sydney international terminal, April 1967.
13. Ex-Qantas B707-138 VH-EBC, sold to Standard Airlines of the US registered N791SA, on tarmac at old Sydney international terminal, April 1967.
25. Air New Zealand Lockheed L188C Electra ZK-TEA at Sydney international terminal, 1972.
30. US National Air and Space Administration (NASA) DC-6 with Canadian Armed Forces C-130 Hercules behind, December 1973.
35. Lockheed 749 Constellation supporting the Rolling Stones Far East Tour 1973.
36. East West Airlines F-27 Fokker Friendship airliners, December 1976.
36A. Lockheed 749 Constellation supporting the Rolling Stones Far East Tour 1973, with Trans Australia Airlines DC-9, and East West Airlines Fokker Friendship, TAA terminal in the background.
39. Ansett Carvair freighter VH-INM (converted DC-4).
53. British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) B747 pushing back from new Sydney International terminal, 1972.

Douglas DC-3 (military name Dakota) aircraft at Sydney airport and Camden aerodrome 1975.
2. RAAF Dakota A65-102 (forward part) at Sydney, July 1975.
3. RAAF Dakota A65-102 three quarter rear view at Sydney, July 1975.
5. RAAF Dakota A65-102 cockpit, throttle quadrant.
6. RAAF Dakota A65-102 cockpit, co-pilot’s control column.
7. RAAF DakotaA65-102 cockpit, centre auto pilot panel.
8. RAAF Dakota A65-102 cockpit, captain’s panel and control column.
15. DC-3 VH-RRA Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), March 1975.

SHEET 5
17. DC-3 VH-RRA, CSIRO, forward part, March 1975.
18. Decommissioned ANSW DC-3 VH-ANR (forward part) at Camden aerodrome, September 1975.
19. Decommissioned ANSW DC-3 VH-ANR (close up forward part) at Camden aerodrome, September 1975.
48. Adastra Aerial Survey DC-3 VH-AGU at Sydney airport, 1975.
49. Adastra Aerial Survey DC-3 VH-AGU (forward part) at Sydney airport, 1975.
50. Adastra Aerial Survey DC-3 VH-AGU (forward part) at Sydney airport, 1975.
60. Department of Civil Aviation DC-3 (forward view) at old international terminal, 1975.
61. Department of Civil Aviation DC-3 front three quarter view at old Sydney international.

Marshall Airways derelict aircraft at Bankstown Airport, 1975-1975. Syd Marshall was a pioneer aircraft engineer and pilot. He acquired a collection of vintage aircraft which became derelict. The DC-2s are the remainder of a fleet of these aircraft which were imported into Australia in the late 1930s and impressed into RAAF service during the Second World War. Marshall subsequently acquired five DC-2s after the war.
3. Derelict DC-2 fuselage in backyard of house adjoining Bankstown aerodrome, January 1974.
4. Pre-war Lockheed Electra VH-ASM outside Marshall’s hangar at Bankstown, December 1973.
4A. Derelict DC-2 still in RAAF wartime camouflage, in backyard of house adjoining Bankstown aerodrome, June 1974.
5. Pre-war Lockheed Electra VH-ASM outside Marshall Airways hangar at Bankstown airport December 1973.
6. Derelict DC-2 still in RAAF wartime camouflage, in backyard of house adjoining Bankstown aerodrome, February 1975.
7. Rear view of derelict DC-2 in backyard of house adjoining Bankstown aerodrome, February 1975.
8. Decommissioned DC-2 VH-CDZ at Bankstown aerodrome, February 1975.
9. Forward part of decommissioned DC-2 VH-CDZ at Bankstown aerodrome, February 1975.
10. Rear three quarter view of decommissioned DC-2 VH-CDZ at Bankstown aerodrome, February 1975.
11. Close-up of forward part of decommissioned DC-2 VH-CDZ at Bankstown aerodrome, February 1975.
12. Front view of decommissioned DC-2 VH-CDZ at Bankstown aerodrome, February 1975.
13. Fuselage of DC-2 showing RAAF markings, in Marshall hangar at Bankstown aerodrome, September 1975.

SHEET 6
Qantas Douglas DC-4s VH-EDA Pacifictrader and VH-EDB Norfolk Trader at Sydney Airport 1975. Qantas operated the DC-4s on the Sydney-Norfolk Island-Auckland route until March 1977.
16. VH-EDB forward underwing view.
17. VH-EDB (foreground) and VH-EDA.
20. VH-EDB flight deck Pilots’ panels and throttle quadrant.
22. VH-EDB Captain’s panel and control column.
22A. VH-EDA left front profile (left) VH-EDB (right).
44. VH-EDA right profile, QANTAS Administration Building.
45. VHEDA with Qantas HS125 behind and East West Airlines F-27 Friendship taxiing.
46. VH-EDB Pratt and Whitney R2000 engines.
47. VH-EDB number 3 engine close-up.
48. VH-EDB passenger cabin.
49. VH-EDB flight deck pilots overhead panel.
50. VH-EDB captains position, nose wheel steering control.
51. VH-EDB first officer's panel and control column.
52. VH-EDB navigators station with oxygen mask.

QANTAS Base Sydney Airport 1975
1. Qantas B747 on engine run-up area and DC4 on apron.
2. Qantas B747 on engine run-up, another on tow and B707 on apron.
4. Qantas B747s behind hangars, one with flaps extended.
6. Qantas Flight Training Department B747 cockpit procedures trainer (CPT) first officer and flight engineer positions. CPT was used for systems familiarisation when converting onto the B747.
7. Qantas Flight Training Department B747 CPT captain’s position.
8. Qantas Flight Training Department B747 No. 1 Flight Simulator, first officer and partial view of flight engineer positions.
9. Qantas Flight Training Department B747 No. 1 Flight Simulator, full pilots panel view, captain (left) and first officer (right) positions.
12. Qantas Flight Training Department B747 No. 1 Flight Simulator, external Radio Aids position. This position provided an ‘air traffic control’ environment to the crew under training in the simulator as well as controlling the ‘weather conditions’.
18. Qantas B747 on run-up area and B707.
26. Three B747s on line maintenance area.

SHEET 7
27. B747s VHEBB and VHEBG on line maintenance.
28. B747s VHEBB and VHEBG on line maintenance close-up.
63. View from 9th floor Qantas Administration Building 1 over Repair and Overhaul Shops and hangars looking south west.
64. View from 9th floor Qantas Administration Building 1 over Repair and Overhaul Shops to ‘Mascot hangars’ looking south.
65. Hawker Sidderly 125s VHECF and VHECE (used for training) and B747 on line maintenance.

Qantas B707-338 VH-EAJ flight deck, 1975.
1. Captains instrument panel and control column.
2. Centre instrument panel.
3. Centre control pedestal.
4. First officer instrument panel and control column.
5. Overhead panel.
6-7. Flight engineers panel.
8. Flight navigator’s panel.

55-59. Concorde prototype at Qantas base, 1972

Air New Zealand Douglas DC-8 ZK-NZC flight deck, January 1976.
5. Captain’s panel and centre control pedestal.
6-7. Flight engineers panel.
8. First officers panel.
9. Flight navigators panel.

Sydney ferries 1973.
12. Inner harbour ferry MV Kameruka approaching Mosman Wharf, August 1973.

SHEET 8
13. Manly ferry Baragoola at Circular Quay with Many hydrofoil ahead, October 1973.
14. Former submarine base HMAS Platypus, Neutral Bay, with two O class submarines, and former boiler cleaning tender (ex-HMAS Colac, with black hull), August 1973.
16. Inner harbour ferry at Mosman Wharf, August 1973.
19. Inner harbour ferry MV Lady Edeline approaching Mosman Wharf, August 1973.
22. Mosman Wharf and marina, August 1973.
23. Mosman Bay and seawall, August 1973.
20A. Inner harbour ferries at Circular Quay, September 1973.
21A. Double-decker electric train and double-decker buses at Circular Quay station, September 1973.
22A. Manly ferry Baragoola at Circular Quay, September 1973.
23A. Manly hydrofoil Dee Why passing Opera House.

1970-October 1973.
A. Sydney suburban power car C3052 near Milsons Point, 1973.
B. Sydney suburban power car C3266 and early double-decker car at Milsons Point, 1973.
C. Suburban train approaching Milsons Point station, 1973.
D. Sydney Harbour Bridge lighting stanchion, signal stand, and electric train at Milsons Point, 1973.
E. Electric train approaching Milsons Point station from the Sydney Harbour Bridge 1973
F. Stainless steel interurban electric train at Redfern, 1973.
G. ‘Bradfield’ electric power car C3075 at Milsons Point, 1973.
H. NSW Railways Rail Motor at Waterfall, 1973.

NSW Railways Steam locomotives, 1973-1974.
1. Locomotive 3526 on enthusiasts tour at Central Station, May 1974.
2. Locomotive 3526 at Central Station, May 1974.
3. Locomotive 3526 at Central Station, May 1974.
4. Locomotive 3526 departing Central Station, May 1974.
5. Locomotive 3526 departing Central Station, May 1974.
5A. Locomotive 1301 at former Enfield depot, May 1974.

SHEET 9
6. Decommissioned locomotives at Enfield depot, May 1974.
8-10. Locomotive 5910 at Central Station, October 1973.
7. Decommissioned locomotives 5390 at Enfield depot, 1974.
8. Decommissioned Garrett-type locomotive 6039 at Enfield depot, 1974.
9. Line of decommissioned locomotives at Enfield depot, 1974.
10-11. Rail Transport Museum, preserved locomotives at Enfield depot, 1974.
12. Rail Transport Museum, preserved locomotives 3609 and 2029 at Enfield, October 1973.
13. Rail Transport Museum, preserved locomotive 176 at Enfield depot, October 1973.
19-20. Locomotive 381 at Enfield depot, October 1973.
5B-6B. Locomotive 3137 at Central Station, October 1973
9B. Locomotive 3137 at Central Station with Southern Aurora at Platform 1, October 1973.
10A. Locomotive 381 and other loco shunting from train at Central Station, October 1973.
2A. Locomotive 3801 with Western Endeavour placard ‘Steam Train Across the Continent.
6A-7A. Suburban Electric Parcel Van Aug 1973.

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