VH-UOV Junkers
G.31go
(c/n 3012)
Good, side
photos of VH-UOV appear tobe non existant. The above, from the
Ben Danneker
collection shows it at Lae circa 1931 and was
taken by
Bert Heath, who was previously aWest
Australian Airways pilot.
The other two G.31s are undentifiable but were
either -UOU, -OUW
or -OUX. Named "Peter"
by the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co,-UOV was first registered in June
1931. The
image below is from the collection of Hugh
Batters, whose grandfather, H.J. Berryman
of Caulfield, Victoria, was
the general agent and
importer of Junkers machines in the
1920s and 30s.
The foot of the page
image is from the Len Dobbin collection, via the CAHS and shows it
loading a
truck body -UOV was
still working faithfully in the Bulolo
goldfields when it was attacked and
destroyed by a Japanese raid on
that outpost on 21 January 1942.