b'1521304THE SOUTHERN CROSS: Souvenir Programme of the Visit of the SOUTHERN CROSS to Auckland [Mangere Aerodrome], January 27th, 28th, 29th & 30th [1933]; 16pp plus pictorial covers. Rarely seen.$2002501305KINGSFORD SMITHS RECORD ENGLAND - AUSTRALIA SOLO FLIGHT: 4 October 1933 original Dutch press photo with affixed details: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith studying a map of the route he will take before leaving Heston Aerodrome today. The plane was a Percival D.2 Gull IV named Miss Southern Cross. A new record elapsed time for the flight was set: 7 days, 4 hours, 44 minutes. The previous record for a1306solo flight was 8 days, 20 hours, 47 minutes, set by Charles William Anderson Scott in 1932. 1309$120150 THE APRIL 1934 AIRMAIL FLIGHT TO NEW ZEALAND:11th April 1934, two-page Imperial cablegram reporting that the short-wave (radio) operator at Auckland had heard Ulm calling the Kalingo and also calling other vessels using the main and emergency [radio] sets. Evidently monoplane [Faith in Australia] running smoothly. stamped at Sydney.Ulm, Allan & Boulton flew a large quantity of airmail letters from Australia to New Zealand (April 10-11) and return (April 12-14).$100200 1310THE MacROBERTSON AIR RACE from ENGLAND to AUSTRALIA, October 1934: An album containing a collection of original photographs of different sizes, the largest being 19.5 x 31cm. Subjects include C.W.A. Scott & T. Campbell Black (the winning pilots), the Dutch Uiver: and crew (which won the handicap section), the trophy, a DH Comet on the ground at Mascot, etc. (12 items).$200300 13041306KINGSFORD SMITH & THE SOUTHERN CROSS FLYTO NEW ZEALAND: January 1934.A Kingsford Smith Air Service Limited envelope carried on the third trans-Tasman flight in the Southern Cross, cancelled before departure at MASCOT on January 12th, and cancelled on arrival at NEW PLYMOUTH on January 15th. The envelope, part of a very small mail carried on the flight is signed by Kingsford Smith. Other crew members were P.G. Taylor, T. Pethybridge and John Stannage. [See The Australian Airmail Catalogue, No.350].$5007501307CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH: 21 March 1934 letter from Christchurch addressed to a correspondent in Invercargill; typed, but signed by Kingsford Smith, in which he explains that he did not carry mail on his flight between those two cities.$100150 130829 March 1934 the SOUTHERN CROSS carries mail from New Zealand to Australia: A Vacuum Oil Company photograph showing the crew (Kingsford Smith, Stannage, Percival, Pethybridge & Taylor) who had carried the airmail in a record time of 13 hours, 25 minutes; also a composite photo depicting the Southern Cross in flight with Mt.Egmont (now known as Mt. Taranaki) in the background and with inset photos of Kingsford Smith & Ulm. (2 items).$2002501305'