VH-TLA  "John Eyre"                                         c/n    1061

                                        These photos show three variations of a theme.  (i)  Above, circa 1967 at Essendon, from the Peter
                                        Gates Collection.   (The Morris Minor van would be worth a bob or two today).       (ii) immediately
                                        below, also from Peter's collection, a Lockheed Aircraft Corp photo-op shot of -TLA in the short-
                                        lived original livery, soon the be replaced with "TAA  The Nation's Jetline". titling and (iii) at the foot
                                        of the page from the archives of the Civil Aviation Historical Society of SA (via Nigel Daw) an image
                                        of -TLA at Adelaide , circa 1962 with the ghastly day-glo orange tail.   It remained with TAA until
                                        1972, going then to Royal Air Lao as XW-PKA, basically for spare parts to keep XW-PKB running.
                                         It was scrapped at Seletar, Singapore in late 1975.