G-ACUX was brought to Australia for Papuan Concessions which was exploring for gold in New Guinea. The aircraft proved under powered on floats. It was put on a wheeled undercarriage but remained unsuitable. In October 1935 it became VH-UUP. Not long after it was flown to Sydney for sale. It remained in Sydney until 1974 when it was sold to the Strathallan Collection and shipped to the UK. Photo appears to be at or near the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron at Kirribilli. Photo from: National Library of Australia

Opening of Sde Nov airport. Aviation initiatives in British Mandatory Palestine came from the side of Jewish immigrants. In 1937, Palestine Airways began to fly between the port of Haifa and Lydda, now Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion, but road travel between Tel Aviv and Lydda was unsafe and thus a landing ground close to the city was sought. SDV closed in 2019. Photo from: Library of Congress

VQ-P is for Mandatory Palestine. Photo taken at Lydda airfield, today Ben Gurion Airport. The airport opened in 1936 but was 'still anything but complete' in early 1938. Indeed the photo is probably from 1937 or 1938 as VQ-PAB was not registered until March 1937. Photo from: Library of Congress

Built as a seaplane in October 1934 as G-ACUX. To Papua New Guinea in March 1938 as VH-UUP. Withdrawn frrom use as a landplane in late 1947 and preserved in the crowded roof space of Marshall's hangar at Bankstown. Currently (2015) inaccessible to the public in deep storage in a Belfast Museum.