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Post by camtech on Nov 9, 2022 13:52:56 GMT 12
Thanks for that, Dave - you are correct, of course. This is probably Wigram's entire staff, including officers, seated at the far end.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 9, 2022 15:26:44 GMT 12
You are right that there are some officers there, with pilot brevets, whom I'd not noticed earlier. But I think by 1938 there were considerably more officers on the station then the handful seen there, surely.
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Post by tbf2504 on Nov 9, 2022 15:44:38 GMT 12
Dave, we were still a very small permanently staffed air force in 1938. It wasn't until mobilisation was declared in September 1939 that there was a rapid influx of Officers.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 8, 2022 8:49:27 GMT 12
This is such a brilliant panorama photo, from 1924 - a year or less after the Air Force first formed. Blow it up and you can see so many details. It's funny for such a formal photo to see four small boys casually hanging in the background behind the DH4. I wonder if their Dads worked there, and if they grew up around the Air Force and perhaps joined up themselves. 1988-242 LINKImage from the Frederick Adair Merrin Personal collection. Aircraft lined up on the airfield at Wigram Aerodrome. From Back; Bristol Fighter. Middle; Avro 504's, 3x unknown, E3137, E4237?, H1966. Front; Dh9 G-NZAE, Dh9 G-NZAH 'Firefly', 2x Dh4.
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Post by Antonio on Dec 8, 2022 16:20:03 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 8, 2022 17:18:40 GMT 12
Ha! It's actually a double photobomb.
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Post by Antonio on Dec 8, 2022 17:55:05 GMT 12
Ha! It's actually a double photobomb. Yeah it is
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Post by Antonio on Dec 8, 2022 18:00:52 GMT 12
Quick question, What does TMCC stand for? OhG506-86.jpg 1986: Group. TMCC (stands for?). RNZAF Base Ohakea.
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Post by camtech on Dec 8, 2022 21:20:52 GMT 12
Technical Manning (sometimes Management) Control Centre.
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Post by oj on Dec 8, 2022 21:37:04 GMT 12
Just Personnel Dept. As it was in civilian life before the renaming to Human Resources, and now, Talent Acquisitions.
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Post by Antonio on Dec 9, 2022 7:53:51 GMT 12
Spotted - Harvards OhG310-44.jpg
4 (F) OTU Harvards at Ohakea, 1944. Camouflaged OD-3 has no fin flash and the Harvard to the right has a (red?) cowling. Ex CFS Tauranga?
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Post by noooby on Dec 9, 2022 8:07:04 GMT 12
On the camo Harvard, it kind of looks like there is a fin flash running up the leading edge of the fin.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2022 9:13:56 GMT 12
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Post by Antonio on Dec 9, 2022 11:21:06 GMT 12
The camouflaged Harvard is coded OD-3, but the codes on the second and third aircraft from left almost look like BD. Very curious. Yeah, I must admit that was what it appeared to be for me as well
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2022 11:33:48 GMT 12
The Harvard on the right with the darker coloured cowl seems to have 32 on the side. I am wondering if it is one of the OTU target towing Harvards, maybe it was OD-32?
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Post by camtech on Dec 9, 2022 20:32:53 GMT 12
Technical Manning (sometimes Management) Control Centre. Another version was TCPC - Technical Control and Planning Centre. Both entities looked after the maintenance scheduling, planning and personnel postings. Also on some bases - technical drawing, training production and delivery. I still have some of the manpower charts produced by Wigram's Tech Admin section which included TCPC, TMCC, Schedule Bay and Drawing Office. Charts produced included trade qualifications, training status and authorisations for each tradesman under my control. Essential when working out rosters, deployments and leave for staff working at two sites.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 9, 2022 23:29:33 GMT 12
Les, I know I used to occasionally visit TCPC at Wigram as part of my job, but I cannot remember why nowadays. But I do recall there was at least one draughtsman there back in my time. I never thought about it till now, but was that a specific trade in the RNZAF? Or were the draughtsmen/women Aircraft Mechs who'd done a specific drawing course?
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Post by shorty on Dec 10, 2022 9:25:42 GMT 12
It was a specific trade ,On my basic engineering course at 1 TTS in 1967 we had one draughtsman(U/T)( name of Selwyn Havill) as they had to pass basic Engineering also. The drawing office at 1RD was at the back of the TCPC building There was only one draughtsman.
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Post by tbf2504 on Dec 10, 2022 11:15:06 GMT 12
Graeme Claridge, who passed away in 2013 was also an RNZAF Draughtsman. Well known in later years for his photography and coverage of airshows
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 10, 2022 11:17:24 GMT 12
Thanks Shorty, I thought that must have been the case, and probably still is though I am sure they do it all in CAD now.
TCPC at Wigram was behind the Technical Squadron hangar.
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