MOTAT oral history interview with Sherry Smith

Maker and role
Sherry Smith, Interviewee
Megan Hutching, Interviewer
Production date
04 Dec 2012
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Object detail

Accession number

13-0995

Maker

Sherry Smith
Megan Hutching

Description

Oral history interview with Sherry Smith covering her time as a stewardess for Tasman Empire Airways Ltd [TEAL] in Short Solent flying boats on trans-Tasman and Coral Route flights in the Pacific. Includes information about service in Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during World War, 1939-1945, and routines of work as TEAL stewardess.

Media/Materials

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

Physical description

1 sound disc (ca. 135 min.) : digital

Credit line

Sherry Smith et al. 04 Dec 2012. MOTAT oral history interview with Sherry Smith, 13-0995. 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 Smith, Sherry (Charente Douglas), 1925- Anecdotes New Zealand Education Anecdotes New Zealand Photography Anecdotes New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force Anecdotes Training Anecdotes New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force. Women's Auxiliary Air Force Anecdotes World War, 1939-1945 Anecdotes Tasman Empire Airways Limited Anecdotes Employees Anecdotes Short Solent Anecdotes Seaplanes Anecdotes Landing Anecdotes New Zealand Flight attendants Anecdotes Uniforms Anecdotes Training Flight crews Anecdotes New Zealand Design and construction Anecdotes Passenger traffic Airlines Anecdotes Coral Route Anecdotes New Zealand Aircraft accidents Anecdotes Safety measures Anecdotes New Zealand Advertising 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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