Corporate Body

Qantas Empire Airways Limited (1934 - 1967)

Commonwealth of Australia

From
18 January 1934
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
To
1 August 1967
Functions
Air Transport
Reference No
CA 985
Legal Status
Agency of the Commonwealth of Australia
Location
Sydney, New South Wales

Summary

Qantas Empire Airways Limited was established in 1934 by the two airlines responsible for the Australia-London run, Australia's QANTAS Limited and Britain's Imperial Airways. In 1947 the Australian Government purchased the shares of the company previously owned by QANTAS Limited, making it the sole shareholder. Qantas Empire Airways therefore became a limited liability company. 1967 saw a name change for the company, becoming Qantas Airways Limited.

Skip to

Timeline

 1920 - 1947 Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS)
 1924 - 1939 Imperial Airways
       1934 - 1967 Qantas Empire Airways Limited
             1967 - Qantas Airways Limited

Published resources

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

Ailie Smith

Created: 1 December 2000, Last modified: 27 August 2001

EOAS ID: biogs/A000834b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000834b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260