Horrie M Hills collection
Collection
This collection consists of miscellaneous records relating to motorcycle racing and in particular to the Bundaberg and District Motorcycle Club. Papers include news cuttings of articles by "Dick Charlton", minutes of the meetings of the Bundaberg and District Motorcycle Club, Autocycle Union of Queensland rules book, note books containing information on motorcycle racing, correspondence, Speedway Annuals, and motorcycle racing programs. There are two folders of clippings on motorcycle carnivals and events and motorcycle notes from the newspapers. Also included are typescript accounts of the careers of Harry Hinton, Jack Parker, Max Grosskreutz, Tiger Stevensen and Jack Carruthers, and information on the history of the Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race and a history of how the race began.
Horrie Hills (1917-2004) was a press correspondent who was involved with the Bundaberg and District Motorcycle Club and Bundaberg Sailing Club for many years. He worked for a time at Millaquin Sugar Company before enlisting in 1941. Horrie served with 'F' Heavy Artillery Battery, and after the war, he married May Lucinda Spence in 1949. He worked as a white sugar boiler and then for the Commonwealth Immigration Department. He retired in 1977 from the Wide Bay Electricity Board where he had worked since 1951.
Multiple copyright statuses.