pods for primates : a catalogue of surfboards in australia since 1900
home catalogue history references appendix

surfresearch.com.au 
 shapers index : t 
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z

T and M Surfboards
1969
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.
Noted : A balsa Pig board with a hand painted text and logo on the tail: TANTAU BUILT KL4259 inside a surfboard template.
Scott Dillon Legends Surf Museum, Coffs Harbour, 2005.

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..


Terry Richardson Surfboards
Wollongong
1978
Teryy Richardson
William York
The Cream Surfboards

?
1967-1968
Most likely a short lived off-shot of an established board manufacturer.

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


Thomas Smith Surfboards
??
1978
Tom Ugly Surfboards
Sylvania, NSW?
1971

Image contributed by Jim Smith, January 2011.
Decal copied from Kanvas by Katin, a US boardshort company.


Tony Dempsey Surfboards
Queensland
1982
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.


Total Performance Surfboards
1984
???
Dave Gillow 
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.
 


Toy Gun Surfboards
Avalon
1976?
John Haymes.
Paul Holmes
Greg Clough

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
Noted: "Thruster- Designed by Peter McCabe" c.1978  A Twin fin with triple flyers and multiple rail channels.
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.


Trotski Surfboards
??
1984
Tubeline Surfboards
Burleigh Heads
1979
Tony Dempsey

Image right emailed by George Evans, July 2008.


TubetimeSurfboards,
Al Cork
www.tubetime.com.au

Turnbull Surfboards
1960
molded boards
Turn Surfboards

1972
Hobart
Avertisement: Breakway, May 1974.
Turning Point Surfboards
Queensland?
1978?

Image right contributed by George Sanders, August 2008.



surfresearch.com.au
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z

home catalogue history references appendix