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Tantau Surfboards 1957 Vic Tanau 8 Grandview Grove Moorabin Victoria Phone: KL-4259 Phone:95-4259 c 1960 310 Chestfield Road Moorabin Victoria Advertisement, right:  The Victorian Surfer  March 1963 Volume 1 Number 3  Minerva Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.  17 Elizabeth Street Melbourne. Page 76. Note spelling variation: Tantu.

A blasa board is on loan and displayed by the ANMM from Leonie Tantau, who reported:
"My father Vic Tantau made one of the first balsas in Victoria in the late 50`s  in a room  out the back of an old kiosk on the Esplanade in Torquay and in a garage in Moorabbin and in a factory in Moorabbin.
Just as a matter of interest the balsa board I own has been on display in the Sydney Maritime Museum for quite a few years now." (email, April 2007)
See Notes on ANMM collection

Tern Surfboards Hobart Tas 1977 Leigh Steven   Decal image contributed by Dale Matheson, September 2010, with thanks..

The Surf Company The Burleigh Heads Qld 1979 Dick van Straalen and Richard Harvey Photograph : Sydney Surf Auction, Mona Vale  Hotel, Sydney, 30 October 2005  Catalogue No. 112.  Thanks to Mick Mock

Tom Ugly Surfboards Sylvania, NSW? 1971 Image contributed by Jim Smith, January 2011. Decal copied from Kanvas by Katin, a US boardshort company.

Tony Olson Surfboards 106 - 108 Claredon  Street South Melbourne, Australia. Phone 69 4212 and 69 2672. The Melbourne Surf Shop. 1968 Tony Olson Competition model Stringerless Pintail  Image contributed by Jim Sweet, March 2009.

Tourney Surfboards Victoria? circa 1963? D fin example noted in Victoria, September 2008..

Town & Country Surfboards Gunther Rohn. Image far right; Town and Country, circa 1982. courtesy of Scott Anderson.

John Haymes started Freeform Surfboards with Rod Sumpter in 1970, and reported (edited) in March 2011, with thanks:
"A few years later I got a real job for a while, the call of the surfboard got to me and I decided to start again under the name of Toy Gun Surfboards.
This time I had a new partner Paul Holmes (editor of Tracks and Surfer magazines and biographer for Dale "Hawk" Velzy).
Paul and I continued for a few more years, then Greg Clough came to shape with me.
I remember Greg turning up early one morning to shape and also tell me he was about to embark in his own business.
I asked him what he was going to call it, the reply 'Aloha Surfboards'.
I wished him luck and advised him that I did not think the name would work.
God, I got that wrong."

TradeWinds Surfboards Newcastle NSW 1978  Peter Mc Cabe Dave Reeves

Tracker Surfboards 1970-1973 A surf wear label, possibly manufactured by Barry Bennett Surfboards. Image thanks to Mick Mock,  Surf Auction 2010.

Trak Surfboards 19?? South Coast ???

Trigger Bros Surfboards 1970 Chelsea, Victoria. 1975 Lot 5 Flinders Road, Balnarring, Victoria. Paul Trigger; Designed by Ian Portingale 1978 Beath Bailey 1979 and Ian Cocoran, Richard Evans, Shane Lowe and Peter Wilkinson 1982 Ken Reimers (Trigger Bros. and Balin decals) Decal images (undated) below courtesy of Scott Anderson.

Trigger Bros. Surfboards, circa 1976. Photograph at Sydney Surf Auction,   Harbord Diggers Club,   22nd September 2007.  Thanks to Mick Mock.

Australia Map and Flags Decal, circa 1982. Image  contributed with thanks by Snazzy, December 2010.

Trilogy Surfboards Victoria? 1975 Paul Carollo Decal image contributed by Fred Smithers, July 2010.

Tubeline Surfboards Burleigh Heads 1979 Tony Dempsey Image right emailed by George Evans, July 2008.

Turning Point Surfboards Queensland? 1978? Image right contributed by George Sanders, August 2008.

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