Research materials on pioneer aviators including Kingsford-Smith, Ulm and Allan. Includes correspondence by Ian Mackersey, 1992; extracts from My flying life by Kingsford-Smith; typescripts by Ernest Aldis; extracts from Charles Ulm's unpublished memoirs, 1934; extracts from unpublished biography of Rex Boyden and photocopies from The sky beyond and The old bus. Box 3 Unit ID: 21
Transcripts of three interviews of Allan by Eric Watson, Peter Macgregor, Gordon Wansbrough-White and a fourth recorded in 1971 Box 2 Unit ID: 12
Writings on aviation in Australia, 1964-85. David A. Hall "Wagon trains in the sky : the beginnings of civil aviation in Australia" (script of television documentary), 1985; Meredith Hooper The Kangaroo route, 1985; "Charles Thomas Phillipe Ulm : his work for Australian aviation" (possibly written by Allan's former secretary); Charles Morris Catt The history of aviation in the Hastings Valleyfrom 1910 to 1990; Charles Morris Catt "She is bonney"; E.A. Crome "Chronology of aviation in Australia" (Address to Newtown Rotary Club, 2 Jan. 1964); and "Memo notes made during the flight in The Southern Cloud from Sydney to Melbourne, July 1930" Box 3 Unit ID: 17-19