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T Surfboards
T Boards
1959

T-Boards by

Vic Tantau
8 Grandview Grove, Moorabbin, Victoria.
Phone: 95-4259

See Tantau Surfboards below.

Decal thanks to Snazzy, March 2019.

Peter Troy
The Esplanade, Torquay, Victoria.
Phone: Torq. 448

T and M Surfboards
1969

Tangent Dreams Surfboards
Nambucca Heads
Phone: (065) 68-1440, and later (065) 689238.
1988
Allan (Dero) Smith
Nick-name and business card thanks to Dave Day (Nambucca District Historical Society President), February 2022.
Also see Ocean Delite Surfboards.

Tantau Surfboards
1957
Vic Tantau
8 Grandview Grove, Moorabin, Victoria
Phone: KL-4259
Phone:95-4259
c 1960
310 Chestfield Road, Moorabin, Victoria
Early balsa boards had tin plate decals.

Advertisement from The Victorian Surfer
March 1963 Volume 1 Number 3
Minerva Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 17 Elizabeth Street Melbourne, page 76.
Note the spelling of Tantu and Big Wave Boards and Ballooners (?)

A balsa 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

Also noted : A balsa pig board with a hand painted text and logo on the tail:
TANTAU BUILT XL4259 inside a surfboard template.
Scott Dillon Legends Surf Museum, Coffs Harbour, 2005.

Moorabbin, 1959.

Decal courtesy of snazzy, January 2019.

Tatton Surfboards
?
1970
?
Decal courtesy of Snazzy, February 2019.

Tern Surfboards
31 Lefroy Street, North Hobart, Tasmania
344 Macquarie Street, Hobart
1977
Leigh Steven

1980??

Terry Richardson Surfboards
Wollongong
1976
Terry Richardson
William York

Teys Surfboards
See Rod Teys Surfboards.

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

The Edge Surfboards
Victoria?
1987
Dan Allcroft

The Family Surfboards
1975
Avalon Beach
Ph. 918-9846

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

Thornton Fallander Surfboards
Gold Coast, Queensland??
1990
Thornton Fallander

Tom Blaxell Surfboards
WA
1967
Tom Blaxell

See Blaxell Surfboards.

Decal thanks to Snazzy, 2019.

Tom Smithers Surfboards
?
1979
Noted: Twin fin

Tom Ugly Surfboards
Sylvania, NSW?
1971

Decal copied from Kanvas by Katin, a US surfwear company.

Tony Dempsey Surfboards
Queensland
1982

Tony Eltherington Surfboards
Gold Coast, Queensland
1978

Also see Miami Surf Design.

Tony Olsson Surfboards
1967
106 - 108 Claredon Street South Melbourne, Australia.
Phone 69 4212 and 69 2672.
The Melbourne Surf Shop.
Decal contributed by Snazzy, April 2015.
Snazzy noted (2019):
Tony Olsson Surfboards-Melbourne Surf Shop
Shapers: Max Gill, Max Davidson, Marcus Shaw, Tony Olsson.
Some boards were made at George Rice Surfboards under contract.
1968
Tony Olson Competition Model: Stringer-less Pintail

Tony Williams Surfboards
?
1977
Tony Williams.

Total Performance Surfboards
1984
???
Dave Gillow

Tourney Surfboards
Victoria?
circa 1963?
D fin example noted in Victoria, September 2008.
Reverse D fin marked 78, noted in Victoria, February 2015.

Town & Country Surf Designs - Surfboards
Byron Bay - Lennox Head
1978
Gunther Rohn.
1981
David Brash
Neal Purchase (Senior)
Tony Cerff
MC (Michael Cundith?)
1988
Shapes by The Buzz
Stinger G-Force Export (Thruster) model
1990
Robert Fenech
1998
Crisp Shapes

Town and Country:
Lennox Head, 1982.
Courtesy of Scott Anderson
.

1990

1995

1999

Pro-Series Super Lite, 1986

1988

Fin decals, 1990

1995

Plug decal, 1990

1999

1986: Piping Hot

Town & Country Surfboards
Western Australia
1982
Colin Ladhams
1986
Nev Hyman

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."

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

1976
Peter McCabe
1978
Col Smith Model, Newcastle

Tracks Surfboards
?
1970
Probably not connected with Tracks magazine.
Noted: Board fitted with a Safe-set fin box.

Tradewinds Surfboards
Newcastle NSW
1974
Decal image circa 1974, thanks to Mick Mock, Surf Auction, November 2011, #201.
1978
Peter McCabe
Dave Reeves
1979
Tony Eltherington

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

Decal thanks to Snazzy, June 2019.

Trak Surfboards
early 1970s
South Coast ???

Surf Research produced the famous Waxmate.

Transformer Surfboards
Ballina
1978
Gunter Rohn

Tribal Spears Surfboards
1988
Victoria?
Barney (?)

Trident Surfboards
1968?
Victoria?

Decal image contributed by Snazzy, April 2015.

Trigger Brock Surfboards
Bells Beach, Victoria.
1994
?
Noted: Sunset Malibu and Silmar Resins.

Trigger Bros Surfboards
Trigger Surfboards
1970
Chelsea, Victoria.
1975
Lot 5 Flinders Road, Balnarring, Victoria.
Paul Trigger;
Designed by Ian Portingale
1978
Beath Bailey, Garry Taylor.
1979
and Ian Cochrane, Richard Evans, Shane Lowe and Peter Wilkinson (see below).
1982
Ken Reimers (Trigger Bros. and Balin decals)
John Jolly
1988
Peter Manners (Sailboards)
Arthur Brett (Sailboards)
1990
Gary Taylor

See: http://www.triggerbrothers.com.au/

Decal images courtesy of:
Thanks to Mick Mock, Sydney Surf Auction, Harbord Diggers Club, 22nd September 2007.
Scott Anderson 2009.
D. Matheson, April 2014.
Snazzy, October 2010, October 2011 and April 2015.

1978

Trigger Bros, 1979.

Trigger Bros. Surfboards, 1975.

Trigger Bros. Surfboards, 1976.

1976

Designed and Shaped by Peter Wilkinson, Trigger Bros. Surfboards, *1977-1979.*	*Australia and Flags,* *circa 1982.* .
*Trigger Bros.,* *1984.* *Trigger,* *1978.*
*Trigger Bros. Australia Map,* *1984. Peter Wilkinson Design and Shape, 1987.* *Trigger Bros.* *Australia Flag, 1984.* *Trigger Bros. Sailboards,* 1984. Speed Lines Shaped by Arthur Brett. *Trigger,* 1988. Garry Taylor Limited Edition, 1988 *Trigger,* *1989.* *Trigger,* *1992.* *1996*	*Ian Cochrane - Trigger Bros.,* *1978.* *Trigger,* *1988.* *Trigger,* *1994.* *Trigger,* *1995.*

Trilogy Surfboards
Victoria?
1975
Paul Carollo

Tris Surfboards
Mt. Hawke, Truro, Cornwall, UK
1976
Shaper: Chops

Tropical Vision Surfboards
Queensland?
1976
Hand-drawn decal by backyard builder.

Tropic Flavour Surfboards
44 Creek Road Currumbin, Queensland.
1984
Ian Dunce and David Lee

Trotski Surfboards
??
1984

True Blue Surfboards
??
1986

Accept No Substitute

Tubeline Surfboards
Burleigh Heads
1978
Tony Dempsey's Tube Line Pro Designs, 1978.

Tony Dempsey's Tube Line, Qld., 1986.

Tubeline Red, circa 1978.

Tubes Surfboards
??
1971
Noted: 5ft 8" single fin with marbled bottom
Possibly backyarder?

TubetimeSurfboards,
Al Cork
www.tubetime.com.au

Turnbull Surfboards
1960
molded boards

Turn Surfboards
1970
? Hobart
344 Macquarie Street, Hobart.

In January 2020, Darryl Von Miller noted the factory moved to Macquarie Street around 1970 and forwarded a decal from a six foot board.
Bird (tern?) decal courtesy of Dale
Scamander Beach Surf Shop, Tasmania, March 2016.
Advertisement: Breakway, May 1974.

Turning Point Surfboards
Geelong
1971-1980
Roger Marshallsea.

Jeremy King noted, October 2013, the location, dates, the owner/shaper, and that he was given my (Turning Point surf) board by mom and dad in Form 2 in 1975.
Many thanks.

Tweed Coast Surfboards
Tweed Heads, Australia.
1988
Billy Grant

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