Old documents
A few posts ago I showed a photo of the Chevrolet my grandfather bought in 1939.
A year or so later he wrote a letter to me, which you can read here. He was 73 at the time and I was approaching 7.
A dozen years later I was called up for Compulsory Military Training. This was at the time of the Korean War and it was the popular system in all developed countries to require a period of military service.
I opted for the Air Force and was accepted as a trainee pilot.
Before we had barely completed our initial training (at Taieri Airport, with instructors on leave from their normal jobs as agricultural topdressing pilots), the Tiger Moth planes were scrapped, and we were discharged, being just as obsolete as the planes!
Here are my discharge papers.
When I worked in India I didn't need to fly, but I did need to drive, and here is my Driver's License.
The mission owned at various times a Dodge station wagon and a Landrover. The four-wheel drive capability was very necessary, as the roads in those days were very primitive, although the Indian Government built kilometres of good roads very quickly.
In about 1960 I walked for a day and a half from the end of the road to attend a district conference in one area; five years later we were able to travel the whole way by the Landrover.
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