Ernie Crome interviewed by Fred Morton for the Fred Morton collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2948509
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Crome, E. A. (Ernest Alfred), 1902-1987, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference only.
- Description:
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- 1977 Aug
- 8 sound tape reels (ca. 116 min.)
- Series:
- Fred Morton collection.
- Summary:
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Reel 2 side 1. Ernie Crome speaks about Kingsford-Smith and his flights; Meeting with Kingsford-Smith and Ulm in 1928; first associations with aviation from 1911; beginnings of letter airmail for him; character of Kingsford-Smith; association of Kingsford-Smith with Ulm; history of Southern Cross before Kingsford-Smith owned it and his association with Sir Hubert Wilson; Australian scepticism; Keith Anderson; significance of trans-Pacific flight; Australian National Airways; pilots with A.N.A.; first mail flight to England; character of Kingsford-Smith; Coffee Royal incident; liaison between Kingsford-Smith and A. Fokker; completion of first flight circum-navigation of globe; world-wide veneration of Kingsford-Smith; 'The Smithy Book'. Side 2. First unofficial airmail; Ulm sworn in as postmaster in New Zealand; Australian government subsidies to early airways companies; 1935 Jubilee airmail; breakdown of Ulm's plane 'The Face of Australia' on Transcontinental Airways mail run; the fate of the Southern Cross; E. Cromes requests for letters to be carried; Kingsford-Smith as musician and poet; last flight in Lady Southern Cross; problems of naming and getting Lady Southern Cross to Mascot; criticism of Kingsford-Smith's preference for non-British aircraft; Qantas air-mail service to U.K.
- Biography/History:
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Ernie Crome - leading philatelist
- Notes:
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- This is part of a collection of interviews concerning Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed coded summary available.
- Subject:
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This belongs to the Fred Morton collection.
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- Until 2047 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1977
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