Ivan Hoffmann's clippings, brochures, diagrams, photos, articles etc. are his source materials.
Note: Reduced readability of some items resulted when uploaded to blog - we have clearer images, contact us if desired.
Photos of automobile badges with the burgundy-coloured background were taken by Ivan Hoffmann's daughter. some of the photos Ivan Hoffmann took himself, the other source materials include -
Newspapers
The Advertiser - published in Adelaide, South Australia, Monday to Saturday, since 1858
The Age - published in Melbourne, Victoria, daily, since 1854
The Sun - published in Sydney, New South Wales, daily (1910-1988)
etc.
Magazines
Australian Auto Action ( -2003)
Australian Auto Sports (1946-1960)
Australian Auto Sportsman (1961-1969)
Australian Motoring News (1946-1960)
Automobiles Australia (1961+)
Automotive Industries
Best of Old Cars (1971-1976)
BCM Experience (also www.bmcexperience.com.au)
Brass Notes - Journal of the Car Club of Australia (Victoria)
Car and Drivers (1955+)
Classic Driver
Classic Truck
Eaton - newsletter of the Road Transport Histories Society Inc. located at Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Electrical & Engineering Review
Engineering 1910-1935
Modern Motor (1954-1992)
Motor
MVEC
Racing Car News (1960's-1980's)
Restored Cars by Eddie Ford Publications P/L (bi-monthly editions commenced 1973)
The Australian Motorist - monthly journal published in Melbourne, Victoria (1908-1956)
The Australasian Coachbuilder And Wheelwright
The Australian Monthly Motor Manual (1946-1948)
The Best of Old Cars Weekly by Krause Publications (1980)
The Motorist and Wheelman (Western Australian) (1915-1940)
The Old and the Bold
The Visor (Western Australia Sport Car Club magazine) (1951-1961)
Unique Cars
Street and Sand Buggies (1960's)
Truck and Bus Transportation by Shennen Publishing (Monthly trade magazine 1936-2003)
Royal Auto - the magazine of the Royal Automotive Club of Victoria (RAVC) a Victorian organisation started about 1922.
Booklets/Books
A History of Road Trains in the Northern Territory 1934 -1988 by John Maddock (Kangaroo Press Pty Ltd 1993)
Aussie Cars A Pedr Davis Production (Marque Publishing Company, 1987)
Australian Tractors by G Quick
Cars of the Early Twenties by Tad Bur
Early Australian Automotive Design (The first fifty years) by Norm Darwin (H@ND Publishing 2017)
Fifty Years with Motors 1922-1961 by F.C; Lewis (Griffin Press, 1961)
From Wagon Tracks to Bitumen by Douglas Wells (2005)
I Like Old Cars by P Rozwell
Gilltraps' Australian Cars from 1879 by T & G Gilltrap (Golden Press)
Great Australian Sports Cars And Specials by Mike McCarthy (Wildcat Press, 1987)
Northern Territory Transport Overview 2002
South Australian Motor Cars 1881-1942 by George Brooks & Ivan Hoffmann
The Automotive Engineer (1977)
The Cars of BMC by Graham Robson (Motor Racing Publications, 1987, 2000)
The Rastest Car In the World
Wheels Across Australia (Motoring from the 1890's to the 1980's) Pedr Davis (Marque Publishing Company, 1987)
World's Fastest Cars by Nick Cook & others
World's Fastest Sports Cars
Other
(Australian) Commonwealth Parliamentary Papers and Bills
National Archives of Australia https://www.naa.gov.au/ - Australian Government records of Federal Government actions & decisions.
National Road Transport Museum, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (opened 1995) National Road Transport Museum (roadtransporthall.com)
Oral Histories - Ivan Hoffmann has conducted several car-related oral histories that have been deposited in the J.D. Somerville Oral History collection the of the State Library of South Australia https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/
.jpg)