longreach

..The first scheduled airline passenger to fly aboard the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited was Alexander Kennedy. The pilot was Hudson Fysh (later, Sir Hudson Fysh, KBE, DFC). The engineer was W. Arthur Baird. The trip was from Longreach to Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. Qantas’ web site describes the event: An 84-year-old outback pioneer named Alexander Kennedy became the first Qantas passenger on a scheduled flight. He had agreed to subscribe some cash and join the provisional board provided he got ticket No.1. His flight, on 2 November 1922, was on the Longreach-Winton-McKinlay-Cloncurry section of the inaugural mail service from Charleville to Cloncurry. Source: www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/queensland-and-northern-ter...

The town of Longreach......identical photo held in the Henry William Mobsby collection at the Fryer Library at the Uni of Qld.

Thanks Kaye. I suspected this was Longreach. I will pass on the information and have our records updated.

This image is reversed - the lettering on the radiator is back to front...

Just a short drive from Longreach (27kms) is Ilfracombe where you can find the Lynn Cameron Machinery Mile with wide range of equipment from standing engines to earthmoving machinery. A wonderful display of machinery, some of it very rare and almost all collected within 100 miles of the town, can be seen. Visitors can expect to see many forms of old machinery, including a 1917 Ruston Proctor Tractor (only two more of this model left in the world), Steam Devil, a big Excavator driven by three horse powered steam engine. Source: www.queensland.com/gb/en/things-to-do/attractions/p-56b25...