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G-AUDJ was a Bristol Tourer.

Our Frank Colquhoun collection includes:

  • MHS/FC 003. B&W photograph. 1921. Bristol G-AUDJ at the crash site. Jack Trestrail talking to a telephone linesman
    Another version of this image is captioned  ‘Bristol G-AUDJ. Jack Trestrail (mechanic) standing. Talking with intransit telegraph linesman. Murchison House’.
  • Frank Colquhuon Album page 2b (Images FC001, FC002, FC003, FC004 plus captions)
    FC002. B&W photograph. 1921. Bristol  G-AUDJ (L.E Taplin, pilot) landed in clearing near crash site running into trees at the end of the landing run with minor damage to propeller. Taplin with helmet and native station hand with the camel cart and team. Dec 1921.
    FC003. B&W photograph. Bristol G-AUDJ. Jack Trestrail (mechanic) standing. Talking with intransit telegraph linesman. Murchison House. Dec 1921.’
  • Frank Colquhoun 1920s Album page 2 (4 images)
    Image 2. B&W photograph. 1921 G-AUDK photographed from G-AUDJ (L.E. Taplin) which in company of third Bristol with N. Brearley, pilot were initial outward flight from Perth by air mail contract to Fed. Govt. G-AUDI ill-fated to crash at Murchison House Station next day with loss of lives of the pilot and mechanic, 5 Dec 1921

Another image shows Charles Kingsford Smith as the pilot of G-AUDJ.

See our G-AUDJ Flickr Album for digitised images and other digitised information.

Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association acknowledges the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live, and learn. We acknowledge that we tell the stories of Noongar Country and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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