You really have started me off now Dave.
You’re right about Edwards as he bought a batch (six if the memory is again on track) and on sold them. One whose serial I don’t know became the property of my uncle Bert Crouch of Blenheim and (horror of horrors shame of shames in the family) Bert eventually made a horse float out of the main cabin. (Bert ran an engineering business in Blenheim). Holdaways came from Edwards as well.
I once have contact with a family near Kaiapoi who had bought a Hudson from Wigram but by the time I found them they’d long since sent it to the scrapyard. I traced them by accident following up names in the phone book when I was trying to trace the F4U that was disposed of from Wigram, same name, same airbase different aircraft.
I also one day met a lttle old lady from Dunedin and her husband had made the family a caravan from one and a few years ago we located it parked under a tree down south in the Catlins. I’ve a photo somewhere of it.
I’ve also seen an article about an old truck driver from Dunedin and one of the photos shows a Hudson being inched into a suburban property and I’ve often wondered if it’s the caravan one.
A lot of this was covered in the article on the RNZAF use of the Hudson in the Aviation Historical Society Journal some years ago, try your local library or perhaps AHSNZ do back orders.
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