Vintage shots from days gone by!

Len Southward's speedboat 'Redhead' racing the TEAL Solent flying boat 'Ararangi' at Evans Bay. Photographed 17 January 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=58039&recordNum=7&t=items&q=redhead&s=a&l=mi

 

Len Southward in his speedboat Redhead, after retaining the Masport Cup in 1951. The logo of the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club is painted on the side of the boat.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=24272&recordNum=10&t=items&q=redhead&s=a&l=mi

 

The American Wizard Stone flying his Bleriot aeroplane in the Auckland Domain. Photographed by an unknown photographer on the 19th of April 1913.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=45946&recordNum=36&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

Lib.ofCongress archives - from '35:

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Scrap engine blocks, caption stated the pic is from '36:​

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Royal Australian Navy Fairey Gannet aeroplane flying from the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. Photograph taken off New Zealand in November 1959 by Morrie Hill.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=44382&recordNum=11&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

These Library of Congress archive photos - 2 different cars, from 1939:

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A couple more Lib.ofCongress archive photos from '39. Looks like a '37 Ford getting a repower flathead:

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Crowd alongside the Fokker aeroplane `Southern Cross' and the Simmonds Spartan aeroplane `Southern Cross Kitten', circa 1934. Photograph taken by Northwood brothers, probably in the Northland Region

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=12365&recordNum=49&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

At these prices, I'll take one of each! ​

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photo-Library of Congress​

 

Group with the aeroplane Faith in Australia, Ninety Mile Beach, [ca 1934]

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=12374&recordNum=50&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

Harry Walmsley fixing a model aeroplane in his toy hospital. Photograph taken by B Snowden in 1938.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=11834&recordNum=61&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

Aeroplanes, including a Vickers Vildebeeste biplane (foreground), on display at Wellington Airport, 28 March 1936.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=5610&recordNum=80&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

A Lockheed Electra aeroplane being towed along Customhouse Quay in Wellington. Taken by an unidentified photographer in August 1938.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=9655&recordNum=82&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

Group portrait of C Flight, No 75 (NZ) Squadron, Royal Air Force, with a Short Stirling bomber aeroplane, in 1943.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=18276&recordNum=77&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

A Civil Air Curtis Commando C46 aeroplane used for airfreighting to China. Photograph taken 23 Apr 1951 by an Evening Post staff photographer

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=60955&recordNum=108&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

Father Christmas in an aeroplane during a visit by him to the Chatham Islands. Photograph taken December 1951 by an Evening Post photographer.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=66929&recordNum=131&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

Photograph of a Waco glider flying over Rongotai Aerodrome during an aeroplane display, with a crowd watching from below; taken circa 15 August 1932 by an unidentified Evening Post photographer.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=45247&recordNum=135&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

A fire engine is in attendance and a crowd of people on Lyall Bay beach looks at a small aeroplane which has crashed into the sea. Photograph taken Sep 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=53866&recordNum=99&q=aeroplane&s=a&l=mi

 

Here's few shots from "Days Gone By", of hardworking folks from BC.s history. These pics range from the 1900's to the 1960's. For some it would seem a hard life, but when you look at the pics from the 1930's and see families living in these remote camps, where every family had a pay cheque and never missed a meal, it doesn't seem too bad.

 

Interesting... but it seems to be a little suspicious. Is it from the Fred Flintstone school of cut-n-paste photo shop? Gary

 

Here's a few more. They started as logging railroads then slowly evolved to trucks which then grew to large proportions.

 

These areas are still being logged, although they are mostly replanted areas now, so the trees aren't the size that were once logged here.

 

On September 1, 1952, a fleet of B36 bombers were parked at Carswell AFB. At 6:42 P.M. a tornado made a direct hit on the base and scattered the huge planes

 

I think I can, I think I can..........