New archive resource: AIR in the AJCP on Trove
Jun 15, 2019 12:05:02 GMT 12
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Post by ErrolC on Jun 15, 2019 12:05:02 GMT 12
Summed up by Brett Holman
airminded.org/2019/06/14/air-in-the-ajcp/
...an example of the aviation records to be found in the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), which is being digitised and made freely available through Trove.
In its original form, the AJCP is a collection of microfilm reels containing copies of British archival records relating to Australia, as well as New Zealand and the Pacific, mostly from The National Archives (TNA; the Public Records Office, as was) but also from other sources. Begun in 1945, the idea was to save Australian historians the time and expense of travelling to Britain when researching their own country. By the time the project ended in 1997, the number of reels was over 10,000, spanning documents from 1560 to 1984. Obviously, most of the records relate to the colonial period before 1901, but there are still many which relate to the 20th century, especially Australia's participation in the two World Wars and other defence matters. And that includes aviation! The AJCP contains 456 items from AIR, TNA's records created or inherited by the Air Ministry and the RAF.
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AIR 2: Air Boards and Air Ministry, 1918-1958. Subjects include: 'Great Britain: Air Boards and Air Ministry; Aerial postal service; Aircraft Production (Australia); Australian Aircraft Factory; Awards for Australian Air Operations; Batten, Jean; British Commonwealth Air Training Plan; Military Awards; New Zealand Air Force; Royal Australian Air Force; Smith, Ross. Captain; World War II (1939-1945)'
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AIR 2/114/A32030: a report on an 'Aerial defence scheme for New Zealand' by Colonel A.V. Bettington, which actually is almost exclusively concerned with the economic prospects of civil aviation partly on the basis that 'a Postal and Passenger service from Dunedin to Auckland via Christchurch, Blenheim, Wellington and Wanganui' comprising 14 twin-engine aircraft would form 'the nucleus of a Defence Force and training scheme for the future' -- in other words, as commercial bombers
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airminded.org/2019/06/14/air-in-the-ajcp/
...an example of the aviation records to be found in the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), which is being digitised and made freely available through Trove.
In its original form, the AJCP is a collection of microfilm reels containing copies of British archival records relating to Australia, as well as New Zealand and the Pacific, mostly from The National Archives (TNA; the Public Records Office, as was) but also from other sources. Begun in 1945, the idea was to save Australian historians the time and expense of travelling to Britain when researching their own country. By the time the project ended in 1997, the number of reels was over 10,000, spanning documents from 1560 to 1984. Obviously, most of the records relate to the colonial period before 1901, but there are still many which relate to the 20th century, especially Australia's participation in the two World Wars and other defence matters. And that includes aviation! The AJCP contains 456 items from AIR, TNA's records created or inherited by the Air Ministry and the RAF.
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AIR 2: Air Boards and Air Ministry, 1918-1958. Subjects include: 'Great Britain: Air Boards and Air Ministry; Aerial postal service; Aircraft Production (Australia); Australian Aircraft Factory; Awards for Australian Air Operations; Batten, Jean; British Commonwealth Air Training Plan; Military Awards; New Zealand Air Force; Royal Australian Air Force; Smith, Ross. Captain; World War II (1939-1945)'
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AIR 2/114/A32030: a report on an 'Aerial defence scheme for New Zealand' by Colonel A.V. Bettington, which actually is almost exclusively concerned with the economic prospects of civil aviation partly on the basis that 'a Postal and Passenger service from Dunedin to Auckland via Christchurch, Blenheim, Wellington and Wanganui' comprising 14 twin-engine aircraft would form 'the nucleus of a Defence Force and training scheme for the future' -- in other words, as commercial bombers
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