Motoring luxury 1924

Source of image above: State Library of Tasmania
Title: Rokeby area, August 1926
ADRI: AUTAS001126254564

The old and the new mobility 1920s …

Source: Archives Office of Tasmania Reference:

PH30/1/6307

Title: Miss Cleburne Subject: automobiles, carriages, cars
Locality: Risdon Date: 1922

Advertisement in The Mercury 1924

Title: Studebaker Special Six, 1924 model

Location: Queensland

Date:ca. 1924

Creator:Unknown

Description:A 1924 Studebaker Special Six, powered by a 288 cid., 55 bhp. side-valve six, with optional wire wheels. The chassis was imported from the USA, but the tourer body is probably Australian designed and manufactured. The 1924 Special Six was distinguished by having a new, sharply creased bonnet line and radiator, but retaining the shallow cone shaped headlamps of previous years. Is part of:The Garage: a photographic album of Queensland motoring. For further information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/garage

Sir Hudson Fysh, founder of QANTAS

Source: Mitchell Library, NSW
Original : PX*D 294

NOTES:

Sir W. Hudson Fysh (1895-1974) was a founder of Qantas Ltd, 1920. Born and educated in Tasmania, he served during World War I in Gallipoli and Palestine, before transferring to the Australian Flying Corps and graduating as a scout pilot in 1918. On November 16 1920 he and fellow-pilot P. J. McGinness and engineer W. Arthur Baird founded the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd. Sir Hudson was apppointed managing director in 1923 and became chairman of Qantas Empire Airways which formed in 1934. Reference: Obituary, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 April 1974.