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195x? 2 Wyndora Avenue Harbord, Noth-side, Sydney.Australian Racing Sixteens
One example with decal currently
(June 2001) on display at 188 Harbord Road, Brookvale.

1957
Hollow timber adaptation of the Malibu board
Okinouees

circa 1959 188 Harbord Road Brookvale NSW 93-5157
Barry Bennett; balsa/fibreglassed boards

Barry Bennett's factory, Brookvale, circa 1960. Photograph by Bob Cooper Australian Surfers Journal  Volume 3 Number Two,  Autumn 2000.  Page 60.

circa 1964 developes foam production company, later to be called Dion Chemicals.

1966 Wayne Burton and Ron Grant;

circa 1967 starts Surf Dive and Sea surfshops

1967 Geoff McCoy
 

1972  180 Harbord Road Brookvale NSW, , relocated after factory fire. 1970 February, Tom Hoye (USA) shapes first Twin Fin 1 board in Australia 1971 Bob McTavish Tri Fins, Neil Purchase; Golden Breed models, Lightning Bolt models; Image right : Golden Breed decal, circa 1974 Photograph Sydney Surf Auction, Mona Vale  Hotel, Sydney, 30 October 2005  Catalogue No. 87.   Thanks to Mick Mock.  1974 Rusell Head; Jim Beardsley (#5848). 1976 Nat Young, Bob McTavish, Bill Cilla, John Forster and Dooley; 1977 Russell Head and Steve O’Donnell; 1979 Russell Head and Micky  Mac

Bennett Surfboards. Designed and Shaped by wayne Burton, circa 1968. Photograph at Sydney Surf Auction,  Harbord Diggers Club,  22nd September 2007.  Thanks to Mick Mock.

Bennett Surfboards Australia Rainbow graphic decal, circa 1974. Image contributed by Jim Swinton, July 2006.

Nat Young Surf Design, circa 1971. Bennett Surfboards. Photograph at Sydney Surf Auction,  Harbord Diggers Club,  22nd September 2007.  Thanks to Mick Mock.

	1966   Barry Bennett   Malibu   9 ft 5" #169
	1963   Barry Bennett   Belly/Knee Board       5 ft 1"
	1971  Barry Bennett   -  Bob McTavish Tri fin  6 ft 8"
	1972  Barry Bennett   - Round nose round tail  6 ft 10"
	1976   Barry Bennett   Rounded Pin       7 ft
	1994 Barry Bennett Mini Mal Thruster 7' 2'' Russell Head,

  Advertisement 1972

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Edited advertisment to highlight text description of models,
from  Surfing World Vol 16 No. 5 1972.
Images couresty of the Bennett Family

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The design was directly imported to Australia in 1970 by visiting US shaper Tom Hoye  to Bennett Surfboards. Image right: Tom Hoye and Twin Fin, Bennett Surfboards, 1970. Image couresty of the Bennett Family Photograph Tracks Magazine. Nat-History, page 106.  Note similar fin box set up to Aurness' Bing model , above.   Before coming to Australia to live in 1969, Mr Hoye made a name for himself as the number one surfer in the United States association District Two-an area covering the west coast of California from Santa Barbara north to the border with Oregon. Mr Hoye was 15 years old when he started surfing and by 1967/68 had his own business with a reputation as an innovative surfboard shaper. He retains this reputation among surfers, together with a west coast US accent and Santa Cruz surf pedigree, an area known for its large surf and home to the famous Mavericks surf break.

After coming to Australia, he shaped for Bennett Surfboards in NSW for one year then made the move to Margaret River.

He established a surf shop at Yallingup in 1971 to sell Hoye Surfboards and later manufactured boards on a Cowaramup farm in 1977 when the name changed to Precision Equip surfboards.

He moved to the Margaret River industrial area in 1981 where the business is still based.
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	Bob McTavish, Tri fin and Dog, Barry Bennett Surfboards,  180 Harbord Road, Brookvale 1971. Image couresty of the Bennett Family Achives.  Photograph uncredited, printed in  Mike Davis :Design Through Development in The Best of Tracks 1973.

Image left: Sydney surfboard industry representatives donate  surfboards to Australian  servicemen in South Vietnam,  July 1966. Photograph courtesy of  Dennis McDonagh.

Nearly $500 worth of surfboard equipment, given by seven manufacturers, was handed over to the Australian Army on behalf troops in South Vietnam, at Victoria Barracks, Paddington, on Wednesday, July 20.

The equipment was received by the Acting Chief of Staff (Colonel P. Tancred).
Pictured receiving the boards, Colonel Tancred thanks Denis McDonagh (McDonagh Bros Surf Boards Pty Ltd, Harbord Road, Brookvale) , on behalf of the manufacturers.

The manufacturers with their gifts from the left are,
Messrs Lance Platt (L. and J. Platt, Surfrider Board Shorts, of Foam Street, Harbord),
Danny Keogh (Keogh Surf Boards Pty Ltd., of Sydenham Road, Brookvale) ,
Scott Dillon (Scott Dillon Surf Board Pty Ltd, of Vlinbourne Road, Brookvale),
Bob Brewster (Manly Surf Shop and Stor-A-Bord, Pittwater Road, Manly),
Grodon Woods (Gordon Woods Surf Boards Pty Ltd, Harbord Road, Brookvale),
Bill Wallace (Wallace Surf Boards, Winbourne Road, Brookvale),
Barry Bennett (Barry Bennett Surf Boards pty Ltd, Harbord Road, Brookvale).

Text courtesy of Dennis McDonagh.