Aviation Scrap book Bennett Airtruck

Maker and role
Clive Lye, Compiler
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Accession number
13/016/014
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Description
P.1. That Magnificent man and his flying machine.
P.2. Just looking thanks. They just up and built it.
p.3. Harvards which have purchased by Bennett Aviation.
P.4. Noel Holmes spills the beans to the Denizens of Auckland. The strange "Air Truck" that is being born in the deep recesses of the North Island.
p.5. T.K. constructed plane comes through static test with flying colours.
p.6. (1). N.Z.-made plane has first test.
p.6. (2). Airtruck begins tests.
p.7. (1). Getting ready fro the flight.
p.7. (2). Te Kuiti-built plane has successful flight.
p.8. (1). It's and Air Truck.
p.8. (2). Final Airtruck triails completed at Ardmore.
p.9. The Bennett Airtruck (pictured), the odd-shaped new top-dressing aircraft built at Te Kuiti, completed it's trials at Ardmore aerodrome today.
p.10. (1). Latest "Flying hopper"
p.10. (2). Successful tests of Te Kuiti aircraft
p.11. £40,000 capital sought for Air Truck.
p.12. (1). The pilot, Mr.J.C.Worthington stands alongside the Air Truck following the first flight on Tuesday.
p.12. (2). Photograph of the Airtruck outside Bennett Aviation Hangar.
p.13. Te Kuiti plane ready to go.
p.14. Images of crashed AirTruck.
p.15. Owes life to plane's design.
p.15. Working on the AirTRuck
p.16. (1). Airtruck Coy seek N.P. Hangar.
p.16. (2). Aircraft may be built at New Plymouth.
p.17. Airtruck in air agian; commercial work soon.
p.18. Machinery, They build a topdresser that's rugged and safe.
p.19. Ready for quantity production of airtruck.
p.20. Airtruck to go into production at Ardmore.
p,21. Three newsprint photogrpahs of crashed Airtruck
p.22. Black and white photogrpah of three aircraft outside a rural hangar.
p.23. Miniature aircraft show their stuff.
p.23-26 - Colour photographs of the Airtruck in flight.
Physical description
1 folder ; loose leaf ; illustrations ; 44 cm.
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Credit line
Clive Lye. Aviation Scrap book Bennett Airtruck, 13/016/014. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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