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SUMMARY:Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934\, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days\, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months.\nThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria is mounting an exhibition which takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the Dutch entrant\, the Uiver. The Uiver (stork) is the most famous of the entries even though it came second. It was forced by bad weather to make an emergency landing in Albury where the locals used the town’s lights to spell A L B U R Y in morse code and then created a make-shift aerodrome on the racetrack using car headlights to con the plane down. Macpherson Robertson always maintained that the Uiver\, a commercial KLM flight that went to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies with a little extra hop to Australia\, came closest to his ideal as Robertson sponsored the race to encourage commercial flight not speed. \nThe first aircraft to finish was the De Havilland DH-88 Comet Grosvenor House\, a specially- designed racing aircraft flown by Charles W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black. Both pilots were much feted in Melbourne. Photos show a handsome pair being mobbed by thousands. The adulation didn’t last\, Campbell Black was killed by a plane propeller just 2 years later and Scott suicided. \nHarold Brook was the pilot with the least experience – barely the minimum 100 hours. He had a paying passenger\, the 28-year old Miss Ella Lay\, who knitted her way to Australia. She was a pilot herself and the only woman to travel the full race distance from Mildenhall in England to Melbourne. Ella stayed on in Melbourne\, took up nursing\, and in 1941 enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the very building where the exhibition is being held (the former Army Medical Corps Drill Hall). Ella died in 2005\, aged 99. The Times printed her obituary. \nThe race generated many more fabulous stories including C. J. “Jimmy” Melrose who at 21 was the youngest pilot and one of the few Australians. Jimmy was funded by his mother and his De Havilland Puss Moth was christened My Hildergarde in her honour. He too died\, too young\, just two years later in a plane crash. \nThe last plane to arrive was piloted by Ray Parer and Godfrey Hemsworth and funded by New Guinea miners. Another entry was owned by well-known Australian pioneer aviator Horrie Miller who at the time was managing director of MacRobertson-Miller Aviation. He engaged James Wood and Don Bennett to fly the race however they came unstuck in Aleppo. As Bennett wrote in his autobiography\, they “… hit the ground with a fair wallop and the undercarriage collapsed; down she went and the nose went in as we whipped over on our back. I was in the tail of the machine and my velocity from one end of the cabin to the other was remarkable. Even more astounding was the degree of “concertina-ing” of my body which took place at the far end.” That was the end of their race.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/tales-from-the-macrobertson-international-air-races/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:LUNCH TIME MARKETING: GO VIRTUAL FOR HISTORY MONTH
DESCRIPTION:LUNCH TIME MARKETING:  BE INSPIRED & GO VIRTUAL FOR HISTORY MONTH\nOn Monday 13th September we are using our Lunchtime Marketing session to bring in lots of expertise in creating events and projects that can be run virtually\, through social media (Facebook\, Instagram etc) or platforms like Zoom or your website. It looks like we will be in lockdown for October\, History Month\, or\, at best with some level of restrictions making events in real space difficult. So we want to encourage every historical society to go virtual. These events and projects are quick to set up\, easy to manage\, free and fun with lots of positive benefits. \nJess Scott will be joined by a panel of gurus to talk about their experience with virtual events and projects – what worked\, what didn’t. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and tap into expertise. \nThe guest gurus include \n\nSteven Haby from Prahran Mechanics Institute\nAnne McNair works on Pramtracks\, a great project from the Gippsland History group on Facebook\, and co-administers the Gippsland Genealogy Noticeboard.\nGraham Peters uses virtual events extensively for his paid work but he is also very involved with the Gippsland History Facebook pages. (this group has 21\,000+ members!)\nLiz Pidgeon is the Local and Family History Librarian for Yarra Plenty Regional Library\nSue Neilson from Bunyip Historical Society\nHeather Arnold is a librarian with Casey Cardinia Libraries which holds Zoom events\, she also hosts several blogs and the following Facebook pages: Casey Cardinia Heritage\, Koo Wee Rup Swamp\, South Eastern Historical and she contributes to Lost Country Victoria and Lost Melbourne.\n\nWe provide the Zoom link below but please do register as we’ll be emailing information after the event to all participants.  \nTAKE THE CHALLENGE AND JOIN US TO GET (& SHARE) IDEAS\nSocial media has become the most influential and important virtual space to network\, build a community\, promote what you do\, find assistance\, sell books and events and connect. Social media networks are open to all and they are free\, giving historical societies a chance to connect with whoever shares their interests. \nFor historical societies it is a volunteer task that will attract younger members and it can be done anywhere\, anytime so doesn’t have time or geographic restraints. \nJess Scott\, the RHSV Marketing Officer\, will lead these marketing conversations\, starting with Facebook on the 9th of August. She will cover other social media channels in coming months. These are casual conversational forums so bring your questions and concerns. We already have a number of historical societies which use social media exceptionally well – creating virtual events as well as promoting what they do – we’ll be calling on them in future sessions to share the expertise too. \nA few facts\, since Jess started with the RHSV in mid- 2019 our bookshop sales have doubled\, we weathered COVID lock-downs exceptionally well because we were still active in the virtual world and our new members are on target to double this year – all in 2 years. \nLunch Time Marketing will be held on the following dates for the remainder of 2021 \n\nMon 13 Sep\, 2021 12 noon – 1pm\nMon 11 Oct\, 2021 12 noon – 1pm\nMon 8 Nov\, 2021 12 noon – 1pm\nMon 13 Dec\, 2021 12 noon – 1pm\n\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZUpc-CsrTgsHdUXWND8AGsa8n1nz6rxvFdL/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGpqj8jHteWth6GRpwcBo-gXejztnZdgqdopCjLJ3hyRRD3buwTPKgpAsDG \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81449433671?pwd=SE53aHFFTks5STFrNFNOWlRYeDlydz09 \nMeeting ID: 814 4943 3671\nPasscode: 488811
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