A national project depicting the growth of the Ansett empire from the humble beginnings in this Western Victorian City
Some of the uniforms worn by hosties!!
On the morning of 5th December 1931, a young Reginald Ansett drove this Studebaker car from Hamilton to Ballarat.
The Ansett empire was born
Just 11 years later, this one-man passenger service, started with a secondhand car, had become the biggest road passenger service in the Commonwealth
The "road" was not always a smooth one
Around the mid 1930's the Victorian government took steps to curb the development of the young Ansett company - it was proving a more popular service than the state - owned railways
Undaunted, Reginald Ansett flew his moth aircraft to Sydney, navigating with a road map, & bought a Fokker Universal passenger plane
On 17th February 1936, the Fokker Universal left Hamilton for Melbourne ... the rest is history
Ansett was then an inter-national airline operating one of the most modern fleets in th e world
A quote from Sir Reginald Ansett
"I don't think I'm anything out of the box. I just think if you work hard enough, you'll get somewhere"
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