How is your history?

[Guest ozzie]

I was going though my late Mum's photos and came across these two little snaps. As usual she never made a note of where, when or who.

 

So anyone have any ideas? maybe before 1951 as to their position in the album.

 

Ozzie

 

 

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

I just rescanned the first photo at max dpi and zoomed it right up and the sign on the hanger is Marshall Airways.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

I did a bit of a google and not to much came up on Sid Marshall except he operated out of Bankstown and had a property backing onto the aerodrome as it was known as back then. Had a nice 'collection' of aircraft over the years. This would fit in well with the two photos below as Mum grew up in Riverside Rd Chipping Norton just over the river and up on top of the hill. I lived there for my first few years. Aircraft look like Tiger Moths, shame no rego markings are visible. Bit of a crowd and a bus in the background. I wonder if these were for joyflights or for regular services to other places. Hmmm i love a good mystery.

 

Ozzie

 

 

[FlyingVizsla]

Marshall Airways - Bankstown. I have seen that distinctive shed in another photo I have seen. I could ask the better half but he's asleep. Googled Marshall Airways and turned up links to Lockheeds, DC3s etc. There's a book at the library on ANA which might shed some more light (might be where I saw the photo). Will get back to you.

 

Sue

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

ANA connection

 

Now here is a connection. I found two of these ANA coasters in the box. On one she has crossed out ANA and replaced it with TAA. I now know she was in Perth and Wyndham in 1951. It was a big family secret as i also found in the box information on a half sister born at the Alexandria Home for Women and Babies. So maybe she started her journey here. I assume maybe in a DC2/3 as it is a long way for a Tiger Moth. Have not found any other aviation photos. (I have already started the search for Jill Robyn Pearce who will be 60 years old now.)

 

Thinking about the hanger in the background it looks like the huge one maybe that Illawarra Flying School used when i was working at BK in the late 80's early 90's

 

Hmm the mystery deepens. :)

 

 

 

[facthunter]

I was at Bankstown in the early 60's. Marshalls had DC3's at some stage. Flew with Illawarra, Instructor Ken May. Bankstown was an all-over field then. Those big hangars had all kinds of aeroplanes in them . Things like Miles monospars, Puss moths, a Ryan STM ,Wackets and there were some EP9's? Crop duster by edgar percival with a bristol sidderley "Cheetah" 's fitted, out of the avro ansons .Think the planes are Tigers ( in the picture) , and the one on the right (as viewed) is a gypsy moth. (no wing stagger and an upright engine and the period early 50's, or late 40's even... Nev

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Thanks FH, it is a very interesting period for bankstown. I went to my first airshow there in the early sixties. It was huge. there were also a lot of Vampires there as well. They used to run them up early in the morning during winter as my Nan said they used them to burn the fog off. Really loud at Chipping Norton and we could still hear them when we moved to our new house in Panania. I remember two mid airs one almost over Nan's farm two Vampires i think and another over the golf course approaching from the south onto the old grass strip. I would love to put a firm date on those photos. Mum was abit of a shutter bug and she had a couple of Kodak box cameras always loaded with the old rolls of film.

 

I remember the old two DC2s near the driving range in the seventies, the fabric was peppered with holes from golf balls. What a waste.

 

Cheers Ozzie

 

 

[Guest DJH]

I recall Syd Marshall's outfit very well, our family often holidayed in the Gosford area and I had many joy flights from the dirt strip near Long Jetty, right next to The Entrance road. Syd and his pilot flew up from Sydney on weekends and during the holiday times. My older brother and I flew in Syd's DH Puss Moth and the DH Dragon biplane twin on many occasions. This would be late 1950's and early 60's. Also had a ride in Syd's Avro Anson out of Bankstown, paid for by my granddad. I recall the Anson's U/C being raised with a manual crank handle.

 

Syd's hangar was an Aladdin's cave, WW2 fighters hung from the rafters. During the 70's I took a joy ride in their Auster at Bankstown one Sat. arvo after work.

 

The Puss Moth now resides in the Fortune Air Museum near Edinburgh U.K.(recent photo below), fully restored, in Marshall Airways silver/ red livery.

 

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[Bill Hamilton]

Facthunter,

 

The DC-3s were DC-2s, first used by Marshall Airways pre-WW11, in Papua and New Guinea. Marshall Airways was a pioneer of the use of the DC-2 in this part of the world.

 

Occasionally, in the '50's you would see one of a Sunday afternoon, doing joyrides from the southwest corner of the Aerodrome, where you now have an Aldi and a bunch of takeaway food joints.

 

Apart from his hangar/museum, from the bar of the old RACNSW you could see a Spitfire fuselage in his backyard.

 

The story of the Bf-109 he had is "interesting", there was lots of wonderful stuff in the hangar.

 

Cheers,

 

 

[Guest Toucan]

I recall Syd Marshall's outfit very well, our family often holidayed in the Gosford area and I had many joy flights from the dirt strip near Long Jetty, right next to The Entrance road. Syd and his pilot flew up from Sydney on weekends and during the holiday times. My older brother and I flew in Syd's DH Puss Moth and the DH Dragon biplane twin on many occasions. This would be late 1950's and early 60's. Also had a ride in Syd's Avro Anson out of Bankstown, paid for by my granddad. I recall the Anson's U/C being raised with a manual crank handle.Syd's hangar was an Aladdin's cave, WW2 fighters hung from the rafters. During the 70's I took a joy ride in their Auster at Bankstown one Sat. arvo after work.

The Puss Moth now resides in the Fortune Air Museum near Edinburgh U.K.(recent photo below), fully restored, in Marshall Airways silver/ red livery.

 

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I have a picture of the Syd,s pilot with my dad in 1948 would anyone know his name

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Is that a rego on the tail in the second photo? If so, it is easy to look up. I had my first flight in Sid's Auster with my uncle when I was fifteen. Or it was a Piper cub, anyway it was Sid's.

 

 

[old man emu]

Ozzie, looks like you have the makings of a "Who Do You Think You Are?" story.

 

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