Papers of Ronald Armstrong relating to Ernest Crome, 1929-1986
- Bib ID:
- 8545086
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Armstrong, Ronald G
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [between 1929 and 1987]
- 0.1 m (1 security Binder + 1 folder)
- Summary:
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The collection comprises Australian aviation philatelic material received by Ronald Armstrong from his friend Ernest Crome and includes first day covers bearing the signatures of Australian aviation pioneers including Gubby Allan, Hal Litchfield, Nancy Bird Walton, Lores Bonney, Sir Norman Brearly, Lawrence Wackett and others; a letter carried on the very first Ansett flight from Hamilton to Melbourne signed by the pilot Vern Cerche in addition to other envelopes carried on historical fights and a copy of Ernest Crome's book 'From Ships to Helicopters', signed by the author, Australian aviation pioneers and Australian cyclist cyclist and politician Sir Hubert Opperman.
- Biography/History:
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Painter, banker and collector of aviation history. Ernest Alfred Crome was born in Sydney in 1902 and educated at Enmore Public School. He was appointed office boy in the Newtown and Enmore No. 1 Starr-Bowkett Society in 1915, beginning an association with the Starr-Bowkett building societies that was to last for 56 years. He served on vessels of the Union Steamship Company in 1918, as a shipping clerk and wool sampler with Goldsborough Mort & Company, 1918-1922, and as a cashier and clerk with the Newtown and Enmore Building Cooperative Society until 1942. From 1943 to 1945 Crome worked on the Mosquito Project with the De Havilland Aircraft Company. He was employed by various firms after the Second World War before returning to the Newtown, Marrickville and General Cooperative Building Societies. He retired as secretary in 1971.
Crome began collecting aviation material in 1919 after witnessing the arrival in Sydney of the Vickers Vimy piloted by Ross and Keith Smith, at the end of the first flight from England to Australia. He won medals for his philatelic collection at the Melbourne Centenary Exhibition in 1934, the South Australian Centenary Exhibition in 1936 and the Sydney 150th Anniversary Exhibition in 1938. He was the author of Qantas aeriana (1955), Footnotes to history and the first ten years of the Rotary Club of Newtown, 1962-1972 (1972), and From ships to helicopters: aerophilately and the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1983). In 1983, he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community. Crome died in Sydney in 1987.
- Notes:
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- Manuscript reference number: MS 10486.
- Associated materials: Papers of Ernest and Virtie Crome, 1784-2005 MS 1925.
- Subject:
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- Crome, E. A. (Ernest Alfred), 1902-1987 -- Archives
- Collectors and collecting -- Australia -- Archives
- Stamp collectors -- Australia -- Archives
- Historians -- Australia -- Archives
- Aeronautics -- Collectors and collecting -- Australia
- Aeronautics -- History
- Air pilots
- Astronauts
- Airlines -- Australia
- Commemorative postage stamps
- Airplanes on postage stamps
- Time Coverage:
- 1929-1986
- Occupation:
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- Copying of rights holder’s copyright material is permitted for research purposes.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
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