Editing Hudson Fysh (section)

===Foundation of Qantas===
[[File:T Ford 1919.jpg|thumb|right|Model T Ford used in the 1919 survey]]
After reuniting at the Cloncurry Post Office, McGinness and Fysh started to make plans to build their airline service, confident in the future of commercial aviation.<ref name=esq>{{cite web|access-date=19 July 2009 |url=http://www.qfom.com.au/establishingQF.html |title=QANTAS Founders Outback Museum—Establishing Q.A.N.T.A.S. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912074120/http://www.qfom.com.au/establishingQF.html |archive-date=12 September 2009 }}</ref><ref name=hsm>{{cite news|title=Jetting to global high|work=News|page=21|publisher= Herald Sun (Melbourne) |date=15 December 2006 }}</ref> Writing about his experiences in the outback in his autobiography, Fysh commented that: {{quote|We could not help being struck by the natural advantages which favoured the establishment of an air service in the district...<ref name=BT/> We were convinced of the important part aircraft would eventually play in transporting mail, passengers and freight over the sparsely populated and practically roadless areas of western and northern Queensland and North Australia.<ref name=SI/>}}

Earlier on, McGinness had met a grazier, Fergus McMaster, when McMaster's car [[axle]] had broken down on a bed in [[Cloncurry River]]. McGinness fixed the car, gaining the respect of McMaster.<ref name=adbf>{{cite book|last=McDonald|first=Lorna L.|year=1986|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=Melbourne University Press|edition=Volume 10|url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/|chapter=McMaster, Sir Fergus (1879—1950)|chapter-url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100330b.htm|access-date=16 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613123624/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/|archive-date=13 June 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> McGinness and Fysh headed off to [[Brisbane]], further developing their plan along the way. Coincidentally, McMaster also went to Brisbane. Upon realising this, Fysh and McGinness, explained their airline plans to him.<ref name=pg22/> The initial plans for the airline service consisted of joyriding, [[air taxi]] trips and [[Charter airline|charter service]]s spanning the Northern Territory— Western Queensland region of Australia.<ref name=otm>Simpson (2004). "On The Move", p. 139.</ref><ref name=SB>{{cite web|access-date=9 October 2007 |url=http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/history/details2 |title=Qantas history—Small Beginnings |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001545/http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/history/details2 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.janesoceania.com/australia_history_concise/index.htm|title=A Concise History of Australia|access-date=14 October 2007|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216201832/http://www.janesoceania.com/australia_history_concise/index.htm|archive-date=16 December 2007}}</ref><ref name=twp>{{cite news |title= Sir Hudson Fysh, Founded Airline|work= METRO Local News Obituaries Classified |date= 9 April 1974 | page = C5}}</ref> As a result, on 20 June 1920 in Brisbane's [[Gresham Hotel]], McGinness, Fysh, McMaster and Alan Campbell, an adviser for the Queensland Primary Producers, began to register the new airline company.<ref name=esq/> The registration of the company was not finalised that day. It took several months before a name and the necessary funds were found for the business.

Funds for the company were lacking. Demonstrating his faith in the airline, Fysh invested his savings of £A500 (£400 sterlings), while McGinness invested £1000.<ref name=pg22/> After being contacted by the group, Arthur Baird joined them in the idea, once again closing his garage business.<ref name=dd23>Gunn (1985). "The Defeat of Distance", p. 23</ref><ref name=ab>{{cite web|access-date=19 July 2009|title=QANTAS Founders Outback Museum—Meet the Originals: Arthur Baird|url=http://www.qfom.com.au/arthurBaird.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912074725/http://www.qfom.com.au/arthurBaird.html|archive-date=12 September 2009}}</ref> A main investor for Qantas was Ainslie Templeton, a friend of Fergus McMaster and a woolgrower in the Longreach district, who promised to match McMaster's investments in the "air service project", upon being told of the idea.<ref name=bau/><ref>Gunn (1985). "The Defeat of Distance", p. 20</ref> Fysh and McGinness then traveled through the towns in the Northern Territory and Queensland, asking for investments for the airline. They were met with positive responses.<ref name=esq/> After observing a shareholder writing "Donation" across the [[cheque]] butt, Fysh wrote:{{quote|...like others, he subscribed out of postwar patriotic sentiment for two young returned men, and out of the hope that in the roadless and bridgeless western plains, where all road transport ceased following heavy rain, perhaps the aeroplane might serve a useful purpose.<ref name=esq/>}}

[[File:Qantas First Office Longreach Queensland 1921slnsw a1178007u.jpg|thumb|The original Qantas Office, Longreach, Queensland, vintage photographic print, Sir Hudson Fysh papers, ca.1817-1974]]
After trying many different names for the company, the Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited or Qantas was chosen, a name that McMaster later stated was created "with Anzac as its inspiring factor".<ref name=pg24>Stackhouse (1995). "...from the dawn of aviation", p. 24</ref> Qantas was formed on 16 November 1920, with Fysh, McGinness, McMaster, Ainslie Templeton, and Alan Campbell in the Gresham Hotel,<ref name=adb/><ref name=SB/><ref>{{cite news|title=Flying high on the smell of castor oil|work=Features|date=16 November 2005|page=40}}</ref> with an initial paid-up capital of £A6,700 (£5,360 sterlings).<ref name=ttl>{{cite news |title=Sir Hudson Fysh – The founding of Qantas Airways |work=Obituary |publisher=The Times (London) |page= 16|date= 9 April 1974}}</ref> The job of [[executive chairman]] of the airline was given to McMaster, with Winton becoming the head office and "the official birthplace of Qantas".<ref name=ppp>{{cite web|url=http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/history/details4 |title=Qantas history—The Plane, the Place and the Passenger |access-date=14 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010112527/http://www.qantas.com.au/info/about/history/details4 |archive-date=10 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=hs>{{cite news |first=Geoff |last=Easdown |title=Qantas through the years |url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20801657-662,00.html |work=Herald Sun |date= 22 November 2006|access-date=27 October 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Kevin |last=Meade |title=The town where a sacred name took flight |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20930483-2702,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121215183143/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20930483-2702,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 December 2012 |work=The Australian |date=15 December 2006 |access-date=14 October 2007 }}</ref>

Partially due to McMaster's intervention, the original plans for air-taxi work and joyriding gave way for airmail services,<ref>{{cite news |first= Leora|last=Moldofsky |title=Business Builders |work= Time 100|publisher=Time South Pacific (Australia/New Zealand edition)|page=119 |date=25 October 1999 }}</ref> which would link communication in the settlements between Darwin and Longreach.<ref name=pg24/><ref name=pg30>Stackhouse (1995). "...from the dawn of aviation", p. 30</ref> McMaster summarised it as "an aerial mail service from Longreach to Port Darwin, connecting at Winton, Cloncurry, Avon Downs, Anthony Lagoon, Newcastle Waters and The Katherine", therefore making it the longest direct air service in the world at that time.<ref>Gunn (1985). "The Defeat of Distance", p. 25</ref> Another plan for Qantas came forth with Dr [[Frederick Archibald Michod]], a doctor and aviator in Longreach who became foundation director of Qantas after its formation. Visiting cattle stations and private properties to give medical treatment, Michod was aware of the difficulties faced in the outback. Establishing a hospital in Longreach, he often used his aircraft as an aerial ambulance. He proposed an idea for a "[[Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia|flying doctor]]",<ref name=MAQ>{{cite speech| title = They still call Longreach Home| author = Richard Wesley| date = 15–16 September 2001| location = MAQ State Conference, Cairns| url = http://www.magsq.com.au/_dbase_upl/Longreach.pdf| access-date = 12 October 2006| format = PDF| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071127030328/http://www.magsq.com.au/_dbase_upl/Longreach.pdf| archive-date = 27 November 2007| url-status = live| df = dmy-all}}</ref> which would later take form in the late 1920s with the Presbyterian minister, [[John Flynn (minister)|John Flynn]].<ref>Lock (2001). "The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine".</ref>

The airline was provided with a wool store as their first [[hangar]] by A.J.B. McMaster, owner of Alba Woolscour, original Qantas shareholder and older Brother of Sir Fergus McMaster.<ref>web|url=http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2008/10/17/andrew-john-baxter-mcmaster/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621143326/http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2008/10/17/andrew-john-baxter-mcmaster/ |date=21 June 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.matildacentre.com.au/EducationCentre_Timeline.asp |title=Education Centre: Winton Timeline |access-date=14 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829014328/http://www.matildacentre.com.au/EducationCentre_Timeline.asp |archive-date=29 August 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 7 February 1921, the first and only Qantas [[Board of directors|board meeting]] in Winton was held in the Winton Club, three days after the pilots landed, on 10 February. A quick decision was made to move Qantas headquarters to Longreach, which would be more central to operations, with easier access to passengers and spare parts.<ref name=esq/><ref name=ppp/>