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There's a new kid on the block in the world of industrial heritage! While the first report dates from 28Feb2018, the 2nd dates from 17Jul18. Subsequent updates and visits will appear on top of the page, having the most recent situation at first glance. | VISIT 28FEB2018 | VISIT 17JUL2018 | VISIT 25APR2019 | VISIT 10JUN2022 |
VISIT 10 JUNE 2022
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OPENING EXHIBITION THIJS POSTMA'S
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The paintings by Thijs Postma (b.1934) are internationally renowned because of their precision and eye for detail. Many people know Thijs from his illustrations in magazines like 'Kijk' and others. His KLM-posters and his box-art paintings for Revell, Monogram and Matchbox are also widely known. He designed house-styles, like the original liveries of Martinair and Transavia aircraft. He wrote, and illustrated, succesfull aviation books, like 'Fokker, aviation builders to the World', and he designed and edited several aviation magazines, like 'Luchtvaartwereld'. [Read my profile on the magazine HERE]. Currently his articles on aviation history can be read in 'Piloot & Vliegtuig'. His paintings adorn the walls of many prominent figures of the international aviation world. His work has been exhibited amongst others in Amsterdam, Reims, Brussels and Los Angeles. His aviation photoarchive is one of the biggest and most accessible in the world. He told me during this venue that he presently was expanding the archive through corresponding with someone in Russia, obtaining rare WW2 material through this source. Postma's website shows that this artist has his talents not limited to aeroplanes. www.thijspostmaaviation.nl |
Marvelous!
Postma worked 8 months to realize this exhibition, in time to celebrate 100 years KLM - Royal Dutch Airlines
A supply of postcards was produced of Postma's work on display, nice mementos
and souvenirs.
A booklet was produced showcasing Postma's fine work
Thijs Postma was available for meet & greet, signing the books for those who purchased one here.
All through my life, interested in aviation since my early teenage years, I have come across Postma's illustrations
in books and magazines.
Amazing he has the energy to continue and produce such fine work.
Arno van der Holst adresses the audience, relating
briefly on the 1 year history of the NTM and expanding
on the plans for the upcoming season and the future: Park21.
In a matter of weeks a production company will start making a documentary about aviation in the Netherlands
during the period 1919 - 1939; for this a replica will be built of the Fokker F-7b3M and the replica will be
used in the documentary, with state of the art technology we will see it fly once again through computer animation.
The same company that is manufacturing the Fokker F7b3M replica, Delware Company, may also built
a replica of the Pander Postjager (known for its participation in the famous London - Melbourne race)..
A few Fokker F.100 remains will serve to make a display (or for kids to climb on.)
Arno van der Holst described events held by other societies & foundations connected to this location here at
the NTM, plus the possibilities to have receptions here
for groups: a virtual beehive of growth, enthusiasm
and
revenue generating events.
I decided to treat myself to a walk around, seeing what has changed and been added.
The DC-2 had better looking wheels donated by DDA Airlines
Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij (EN: Royal Dutch Indies Airways) was the airline of the former Dutch East Indies. Headquartered in Amsterdam, KNILM was not a subsidiary of the better-known KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), despite the similar name. The airline had its headquarters in Amsterdam and an office in on the grounds of Tjililitan Airfield (current Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport) in Batavia (current Jakarta). KNILM was founded on 16 July 1928 as the NILM by a group of 32 Netherlands Indian investors with a capitalization of NLG 5 million. To prevent confusion with an existing insurance company Nillmij, it was appended with the Koninklijk (Royal) title on 15Oct1928. The airline operated in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), and later, parts of Southeast Asia and Australia. During the Japanese attack of the Dutch East Indies, KNILM was utilized for evacuation flights and transport of troops. On 28Dec1941. On 07Mar1942, one day before the capitulation of Java, the last KNILM aircraft took off from the Boeabatoeweg in Bandung. A number of KNILM aircraft in Darwin were destroyed by the Japanese during the bombing of Darwin. In all, 11 KNILM aircraft managed to escape to Australia: 3 Douglas DC-5s, 2 DC-3s, 2 DC-2s and 3 Lockheed Model 14 Super Electras. en.wikipedia.org:_KNILM |
Work is ongoing to make a display of the DC-2 instruments; not easy as those instruments are rare as hen's teeth!
Something of the old and the new: some progress is easily seen, others has the devil in the detail
Here obvious progress has been made, bottom page you see T-6 Harvard 'RNLAF B-69' and here we see
how it is transforming into a pre-WW2
Noorduyn NA-77 (I believe). Canada's Noorduyn Aviation built an
R-1340-AN-1-powered version of the AT-6A, which was supplied to the USAAF as the AT-16 (1,500 aircraft)
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the RAF/RCAF as the Harvard IIB (2,485 aircraft), ¬Wikipedia
The Auster
Mk.3, NX537, has its engine installed
Subway carriage 23 (front section 23A, back section 23B) placed in the museum during Dec.2018, represents a significant era of transport in the Netherlands. It belongs to a generation of subway carriages named 'Zilver-meeuw' (EN: Herring Gull) but could be heard referred to as 'koekblik' (EN: Cookie Tin) or 'container'. Volunteers are working to remove the graffiti, but the environmentally approved stuff hardly does the trick. |
The Fouga Magister MT-37 was also added after my last visit
This ia Test-Article TA-02, a Fokker F.28 test frame
of a cockpit which was used in th elate-1960s/early-1970s
for static- and fatigue testing (parts of which was done in a watertank). It has also been on display in the
Luchtvaarthobbyshop in Aalsmeerderbrug near Schiphol from where it went to a privat collector
for a while.
I haven't begun to show what's here at the Transport Museum other than planes...
For now I had again a very nice visit, next time I am sure I'll 'discover' more new & fascinating material!
VISIT 17JUL2018The museum was officially opened on 28Apr18 and offers an interesting selection of trains, busses and also aeroplanesfrom the 1930a end 1940s. This is an update to my visit last february, a report you'll find further down this page.
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VISIT 28FEB2018 Producer of alcoholic beverages Bols saw in 1964 no further in growing with its distillery ’t Lootsje (EN=the little shed) in Amsterdam (on the Rozengracht, since 1575!). Three years later Bols opened a brand new factory in Nieuw-Vennep. It brought employment to hundreds of people in Nieuw-Vennep, but decided to move out of this town in 1996, for a more intensive coöperation with Heineken. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Bols AFter 1996 the Aerospacegroep Stork Fokker Aviation settled here. But since 2010 this huge area has been
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 Arno van der Holst makes his introduction for the group, starting a very informative tour. My date of visit was 28Feb2018, during a schoolweek holiday. The museum is here still in its infancy, but Arno van der Holst has a limitless amount of optimism and as a one of the initiators we will soon see momentum picking up speed, of this I have no doubt! |
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See also www.airport-data.com/aircraft/FE876 It is an Ex/ RCAF aircraft with RAF serial. ¬ www.kw.jonkerweb.net
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 Bicycles and motopeds, they too belong to 'transport'. Note the assembly on which they are displayed: this is one remaining from the Lucas Bols days: storage for 'booze'!
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Nederlands Transport Museum closed per 06Mar2023. 'The NTM in Nieuw Vennep is closed. This was necessary because the former Bolsfabriek, also a former Fokker branch in the 1980s and 1990s, will eventually be demolished to make way for housing. Chairman of the Board Arno van der Holst: "We are going to prepare for an upcoming move to house the collection and the museum at a new location. Where that will be is not yet known. As soon as there is more news about this, we will announce it in the media." At the time of closure, the NTM's collection consisted of a number of special aircraft, including a Douglas DC-2, a Fouga Magister, a large number of gliders and some special and historic restoration projects, including a Noorduijn Norseman, a Bell 47G helicopter and a Cessna Bobcat.' |
LINKS: nederlandstransportmuseum.nl |
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Photos © R.Leeuw
