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ANA - Australian National Airways - Route Map folder, Sydney to Melbourne, 1948 by mikeyashworth, on Flickr

ANA was once one of Australia’s major carriers - although in the late 1940s and early ’50s it appears to have already been struggling against an accident record, competition and government ‘interests’. In 1957 ANA finally succumbed to Ansett.
This is the cover of the Melbourne to Sydney route map - one of the company’s planes against the continent.