Australian Automobiles - The Ivan Hoffmann Collection

This website presents the Ivan Hoffmann Collection of research materials for Australian Automobiles - clippings, brochures, diagrams, photos, articles etc., from early days until more recent. It qualifies as Australian if one or more components - body/engine/chassis were either prototype, designed, built, assembled, manufactured or made for use, only in Australia, (we also adopted a few New Zealand cars as Australian!). NOTE: POSTING REDUCES IMAGE READABILITY

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Friday, February 20, 2026

Sangston

Daniel H Sangston built a hovercraft, which was used in 1 mile run across a paddock to ferry bags of official mail (classed as air mail!).

A souvenir envelope was issued as part of the Melbourne International Philatelic Exhibition to commemorate the first Australian Hovercraft Mail on 8 October 1963.

Airstralis Hovercraft