History of Australia the new technologies of transport and communication. Coastal sailing ships were finally abandoned in favour of steam, and improvements in rail and motor transport heralded dramatic changes in work and leisure. In 1918 there were 50,000 cars and lorries in the whole of Australia. By 1929 there were 500,000. The stage coach company Cobb and Co, established in 1853, finally closed in 1924. In 1920, the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service (to become the Australian airline Qantas) was established. The Reverend John Flynn, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance in 1928. Daredevil pilot, Sir
John Flynn (director) assistant on "Odds Against Tomorrow". Flynn subsequently worked as the script supervisor on "West Side Story" and as a second assistant director on "Kid Galahad" and "Two for the Seesaw". He then worked as first assistant director on "The Great Escape" and second unit director on "Kings of the Sun" ("a bullshit script, a popcorn script," according to Flynn). This was directed by J. Lee Thompson who used Flynn again as an assistant director on "What a Way to Go!" and "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!". In 1966, Wise set up a company to produce low-budget films that others would