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1951 - 1960 page 3

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1953 : Shute's income exceeds 40,000 Australian Pounds.

Betty Bandidt in 2001
Betty Bandidt in 2001. Betty and her husband, Alan "Bush" Bandidt, were next door neighbours and good friends of the Shute family in Langwarrin. Shute was well regarded by all his neighbours who said he was not at all stuck up and helped to fight the bushfires like everyone else. (Photo: RM 2001)


1954

Shirley in the family's sailboat "Nicolette" at Davey's Bay in January 1954. The figure in the hat with the pipe holding the boat is probably Nevil and the woman on the right is probably Frances. ( BNC ) Shirley in the family's sailboat
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1954 : "Slide Rule" is published.
February 09 1954 : Shute corresponds with Hansell Engineering in Vancouver for details of a housewife's bus routes and favoured shops in Vancouver. A&P supermarket wins over Safeway. Shute worked with Sydney Hansell and Sir Dennistoun Burney in 1939 on the Gliding Torpedo. Sydney Hansell also worked in the DMWD.
February 09 1954 : Shute corresponds with someone in Seattle for details about suburbs, bus routes, car routes etc.

Langwarrin
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In a few years the plantings around the Langwarrin home are showing results. This is not a Kodachrome slide. ( FGC )


Artist and Shute family friend, Flora Twort in 1954 aged 61. Flora finally gave up painting in 1974 at the age of 81. Many of her works have hung in The Royal Academy and in other London galleries. The photo is courtesy of The Hampshire County Council Museums Service. ( HCCMS / DDT )
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Pre-September 1954 : Shute travels for 6 weeks in the West Australian Oilfields collecting material later used in "Beyond The Black Stump" and "Incident at Eucla".

Telegraph Station
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Shute's later writings suggest that he visited the remote Australian town of Eucla when he travelled in the Australian outback in Mid 1954. The long disused and now sand encroached Eucla Telegraph Station later became a location in the unfinished novel Incident at Eucla that Shute was writing at the time of his death in 1960. ( WIA / QSL )

September 1954 : Shute travels in the American Rockies by packhorse with Dr Gilstrap. Material collected appears in "Beyond The Black Stump".
September 15 1954 : Unknown to Shute, his future biggest fan is born in Canberra, Australia.

Shute sits on his horse, Honey, at Swamp Lake (7840 feet). Shute travelled with Dr Gilstrap on his September 1954 packhorse trip in the Wallowa Mountains in Oregon in the USA. ( INSS / FGC ) Shute at Swamp Lake, OR
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Dr Gilstrap's idyllic cabin in Oregon
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Dr Gilstrap's idyllic cabin in Oregon. Note that the flashy new streamlined car and boat are right out of "Beyond The Black Stump". ( FGC )


In another excellent 50 year old Kodak slide we see Dr Gilstrap and Shute at Dr Gilstrap's cabin. Everyone in the world had those gold cups in the 1950s. ( FGC ) Dr Gilstrap and Shute
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