Grandma's Airliners

Hi James

Bummer – just have to hope there were no good aircraft pics in that lot – I must ask how I stop my CDs and DVDs from fading !!!

Regards
john P

Hi John,
Nope, they’d all shifted to orange/clear – i.e. monochrome. Thanks for the offer, there was nothing important, though I really could now see the world through rose tinted specs using these slides. However we just did the right thing, and our bin is full.

Hi James

When you say orange are they just tinged or opaque orange ? – we have a nice archivast here with a $200K machine for fixing such things – anything you want salvaged ?

JP

Thanks Neil, Albert.

These were a few in maybe a thousand or so slides, take from the 50s to the 80s. Interestingly she’d bought hundreds of slides at museums and galleries, and with a couple of exceptions, they’d all gone orange (being dupes I understand) however her originals are as fresh as the day they were taken. No special storage methods, and in an un-air conditioned Melbourne house, I bet they’ve seen 40 degrees C on a few occasions too!

I’ll tell her about the background the the aircraft Neil – quite a saga!

Blimey James! When my Grandfather died, I acquired just three acceptable slides of aircraft, but to have a Grandmother that had aircraft slides must be unique? A TAA Viscount in this scheme appeared at the 1959 Farnborough Air Show and indeed this scheme was replaced around 1964-65, so I guess 1960-61 might be a good guess for the TAA shots.

JDK.. interesting pictures… ref the date for the TAA pics.. the Electra pictured entered service in July ’59 and the Orange tail scheme was phased-out mid-60’s.. interestingly enough VH-TLB was subject of an atempted Hijack. 😮
some info here..
http://adastron.com/lockheed/electra/vh-tlb.htm

Neil