MOTAT oral history interview with Irene Kingwill

Maker and role
Irene Kingwill, Interviewee
Megan Hutching, Interviewer
Production date
01 Sep 2009
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Object detail

Accession number

09-0867

Maker

Irene Kingwill
Megan Hutching

Description

Oral history interview with Irene Kingwill about her work as a stewardess on Short Solent flying boats for Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) based at Mechanics Bay, Auckland. Includes information on TEAL’s Coral Route in Pacific, trans-Tasman flights, routine on board aircraft, Sir Edmund Hillary and her time as a model for El-Jay Garments.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Synthetic/Plastic
Processed Material/Synthetic/Plastic
Processed Material/Synthetic/Plastic

Physical description

1 sound disc (ca. 140 minutes) : digital

Credit line

Irene Kingwill et al. 01 Sep 2009. MOTAT oral history interview with Irene Kingwill, 09-0867. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

Current rights

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Classification

Disk, Optical Videodisc, Digital Tools & Equipment for Communication Data Processing T&E Data Processing Media

Production place

Auckland New Zealand

Subject: all levels

Interviews Kingwill, Irene Anecdotes Social life and customs New Zealand Anecdotes World War, 1939-1945 Anecdotes Tasman Empire Airways Limited Anecdotes Employees Anecdotes Passenger traffic Airlines Anecdotes Short Solent Anecdotes Landing Seaplanes Anecdotes New Zealand Flight attendants Anecdotes Uniforms Anecdotes Safety measures Anecdotes Hillary, Edmund Percival, Sir, 1919-2008 Anecdotes Menus Anecdotes Douglas DC-6 Anecdotes Food service Anecdotes Royal visitors Anecdotes Tangiwai New Zealand Railroad accidents Anecdotes Auckland Harbour Bridge Anecdotes Solent Preservation Society Incorporated Anecdotes New Zealand Education Sound recording and reproducing

Collection type

Audio Visual Walsh Memorial Library

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Related topics

Name: ‘We were novelties’: TEAL Solent Flying Boat Stewardesses Summary/Abstract: MOTAT has the last remaining Mark IV Short Solent flying boat in the world in its collection. In the Walsh Memorial Library’s recorded sound archive, there are a number of interviews recorded by members of the Solent Preservation Society in the 1990s. In the late 2000s we recorded some interviews with stewardesses who flew on the Solents between Auckland and Wellington and Sydney, and from Auckland up to the Pacific to Tonga and Fiji, and on the Coral Route which went via Fiji, Samoa and the Cook Islands to Tahiti. The Auckland-Sydney route started in 1949, the Wellington-Sydney one in 1950. In 1951 the Coral Route began — at first monthly and then fortnightly. Subject category: Flight attendants, New Zealand, Anecdotes, Tasman Empire Airways Limited, Employees, Anecdotes, Oral history See full details

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