b'150AVIATION MEMORABILIA1295A CORRESPONDENCE WITH KEITH SMITH: 1917 - 1926,A group of letters and postcards, six items in all, all addressed and written by Keith Smith to his friend, B.R. Stevenson (who he addresses as Steve), an employee of Elder, Smith & Co., Adelaide:- 1/11/1917 a postcard from Leeds, start flying from tomorrow if its a decent day. signed K.M.S.,- 25/2/1918 a postcard from Norwich, .Have come down to get a machine to fly back to Cramlington, a nice 250 mile jaunt if the weather is anything like decent signed K.M.S.[Cramlington Airfield was built in 1915 in response to German airship attacks on Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.]- 20/4/1918 a postcard from Ryde, Isle of Wight, .See in todays paper that Neville Swift has gone West, jolly rotten luck signed K.M.S. R.A.F.[Major Neville Cropley Swift of Adelaide died of wounds in France 28th March 1918. He was 22 years old.]- 22/12/1924 an envelope addressed to Stevenson, containing1301a Christmas and New Year Greeting, dated Sydney 1924 and signed Keith Smith. 1296- 7/8/1926 a typed letter contained in an envelope from Sydney,THE BRISTOL AEROPLANE COMPANY: A collection of .Cobham is due here today week and I do not want to missoriginal photographs of some of their aircraft, including the seeing him land and take part in his welcome. He has doneScout, the Bulldog, the Blenheim, the Brigand, the Buckingham, damn well and his flight should do a lot to buck up the interestthe Bullet, the Beaufighter, the Bristol Type 138A, the in flying all over Australia. signed Keith. Badminton, the Bristol Type 142, the Brabazon, etc. Mainly fine - 26/12/1926 a typed letter contained in an envelope fromand mostly approx. 19 x 25cm. (13).Sydney, .I leave here in about 3 weeks for Melbourne where$100150 I hope to spend a few days prior to coming over to Adelaide to join the boat signed Keith Smith.Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, KBE (18901955) along with his1297brother, Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, Sergeant James MallettCHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH PHOTOS:(Jim) Bennett and Sergeant Walter (Wally) Shiers, became theA folder containing press photos and others,first people to fly from England to Australia in 1919. mainly featuring CKS but also his wife, Mary,$1,0001,500 the Southern Cross, the Lady Southern Cross,other aviators, etc. (20+ items).$5001,000 1298THE SOUTHERN CROSS: A 4-page souvenir card of the 31st May 1928 departure of the Southern Cross from BLENHEIM (N.Z.) to SYDNEY; created by the Marlborough Aero Club; printed by Express Print, Blenheim. Extremely rare.$100150 1299OAKLAND AIRPORT & THE 1928 TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT: Original Associated Press photo of James Warner (radio operator) & Charles Ulm (relief pilot) titled A Minute To Go at Oakland Airport while Kingsford Smith was warming up the engines of the Southern Cross; another press photo of the Southern Cross during pre-flight preparations, with the Paramount News van at left, mechanics and officials around the plane; and the July-August 1935 edition of the Port of Oakland Compass magazine, the edition devoted completely to Air Commerce. Kingsford Smith features in an article headed Famous Flights in which the May/June Trans-Pacific flight that left from Oakland is detailed, as well as Kingsford Smiths July 4, 1930 completion at Oakland of his circumnavigation of the globe, his Nov.1934 first trans-Pacific flight that terminated at Oakland and, sadly, the loss at sea of Ulm & Littlejohn on their Dec.1934 flight from Oakland via Honolulu and Suva. (3 items).$200250 Ex 1295'