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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

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

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
Gunther Rohn.

Image far right;
Town and Country, circa 1982.
courtesy of Scott Anderson.

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.

Trak Surfboards
19??
South Coast ???

Trigger Bros Surfboards
Chelsea Vic.
Lot 5 Flinders Road, Balnarring, Victoria.
1975
Paul Trigger;
1978
Beath Bailey
1979
and Ian Cocoran, Richard Evans, Shane Lowe and Peter Wilkinson

Decal images (undated) below courtesy of Scott Anderson.