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Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij – KNILM

Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (in English: Royal Dutch Indies Airways) was the airline of the former Dutch East Indies. It was founded on 16 July 1928 as the NILM by a group of 32 Netherlands Indies. Headquartered in Amsterdam, KNILM was not a subsidiary of the better-known KLM (Royal Dutch Read more…

By DACC, 3 yearsJanuary 18, 2022 ago
Aviation and Shipping

KLM – Various

KLM terminated its own 3 weekly Amsterdam-Sydney service in 2001 in favour of code shares with Malaysia Airlines. Apparently, the route via Singapore, although very popular, was a total loss-maker and they didn’t have traffic rights for the SIN-SYD leg. KLM has had a very long history with Australia. In Read more…

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 years ago
Aviation and Shipping

KLM – Various history, Australian news

KLM terminated its own 3 weekly Amsterdam-Sydney service in 2001 in favour of code shares with Malaysia Airlines. Apparently, the route via Singapore, although very popular, was a total loss-maker and they didn’t have traffic rights for the SIN-SYD leg. KLM has had a very long history with Australia. In Read more…

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 years ago
Aviation and Shipping

KLM Holland Herald

Holland Herald is the inflight magazine of the Dutch airline KLM. It is the oldest inflight magazine.

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 yearsJanuary 16, 2022 ago
Aviation and Shipping

KLM Vogelvlucht Magazines

Special magazine available free of charge in Australia and New Zealand, until the direct KLM flights to Australia ended in 2001.

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 yearsJanuary 16, 2022 ago
Dutch Retail Shops

George Broekhuysen – Dutch Shop Dee Why

George Broekhuysen established a successful Dutch Shop on Pittwater Road, Dee Why, Sydney. It was a real ‘Winkel van Sinkel’ (shop of everything). He also delivered shopping on his motorbike to the many Dutch families in the area, an area also known as Little Holland. With important organisations such as Read more…

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 yearsJanuary 16, 2022 ago
Aviation and Shipping

London to Melbourne Air Race – 1934

The MacRobertson Trophy Air Race (also known as the London to Melbourne Air Race) took place in October 1934 as part of the Melbourne Centenary celebrations. The race was devised by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Sir Harold Gengoult Smith, and the prize money of £15,000 was provided by Sir Read more…

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 years ago
Dick Dusseldorp Book
Dutch businesses in Australia

Dick Dusseldorp 1918-2000 – founder of Lend Lease

Born in Utrecht in the Netherlands in December 1918, Gerardus Dusseldorp was known as Dik as a child, the anglicised version of which stuck with him for the rest of his life. At the age of 15, he enrolled as a marine cadet, with the aim of becoming a captain Read more…

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 yearsJanuary 7, 2022 ago
Dutch businesses in Australia

Bert van Wijk – Richlands, Brisbane

Personal story from Bert van Wijk. Source; 150 years Richlands, Inala & Neighbouring Suburbs in Brisbane’s South West by Vicki Mynott, 2009 See other personal stories.

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 3 years ago
Dutch Retail Shops

Isodoor Berkelouw moved the book business to Australia

The story of the famous Berkelouw bookstores goes back to Rotterdam in 1812. Several generations continued and grew the business in the Netherlands. By WWII they had one of the most well know antiquarian book business in Europe. However, during the bombardment of Rotterdam in May 1940, the bookshop was Read more…

By Dutch Australian Cultural Centre, 4 yearsNovember 5, 2021 ago

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