VH-UGH de Havilland D.H.60
Moth
(c/n 354)
This rare photo is from the Neil Follett collection. Rare,
inasmuch as this aircraft was struck off the
register in 1933. It was
originally imported in August 1927 for Qantas (as, of course,
G-AUGH).
The photo immediately below is from the Gus Grulke collection and shows
-UGH circa
1930 in
Queensland, with company name Sky
Travel (Australia) Ltd, Brisbane on the nose and
advertising
WUNDA painted under the
upper wings. This company set up an short-lived airline
service from
Brisbane to inland towns in November 1930 with Junkers F.13L VH-UPL Glorious
Queensland,
flown by T. H. Bishop, who had purchased this Moth
in December 1927. Qantas had
sold it at the
end of
1927 to T.H. Bishop who 'transferred' it almost immediately
to Mrs. D.E. Reis. Image No 3
came from Carolyn Collins and shows it
still as G-AUGH at Bundeberg, circa
1929 Carolyn
indicates that the little boy,
centre of the starboard wings is her father, whilst the lady on his
right
is her grandmother.
The low-res image following that,
from Picture Sunshine
Coast, shows the
Moth
on the beach at Noosa Heads in the
late
1920s In
February 1931 (by which time the
aircraft
had had a couple of mishaps)
Qantas bought it back, only to sell it
again in October 1932
to C.H. Ferris, still based at Archerfield,
where
presumably the above photograph was taken.
Anyway, following a takeoff accident at
Rocklea, Queensland in April 1933, it was stricken
from
the
register.
