1951 Royal Visit Press Arrangements & Program at Sydney, N.S.
Below is a copy of the press arrangements and program for the visit of Princess Elizabeth and Prinve Philip
PRESS HEADQUARTERS:
Press Room in Ballroom at Isle Royale Hotel. Tel. 5511.
Photography developing {at least six} rooms and Printing Rooms at Sydney
Post-Record. Tel. 5451.
Fellowship Quarters – Sydney Press Club. Tel.7092.
ADDITIONAL FACILITIES:
Telegraph and telephone facilities available in Press Headquarters
At Isle Royale Hotel.
ARRIVAL TIMES:
Press party arrives at Sydney Airport at 1:30 A.M. November 10th
Via R.C.A.F. Planes.
TRANSPORTATION:
Buses will be waiting at the Airport to transport Press Party
Members to the Isle Royale Hotel where accommodations will be waiting.
WELCOME:
At 2A.M. there will be a welcome reception and Good-Night Buffet
Luncheon at the Sydney Press Club through courtesy of the Sydney Post-Record.
ROYAL VISIT PROGRAM SUMMARY: (Not for release prior to time shown}
At Quayside.
Disembarkation, presentation of Mayor, address of welcome, presentation
Of official party, presentation of flowers and signing of the Register.
TOUR OF CITY:
Visit to Steel Plant – Their majesties visit the operation of The Dominion Iron & Steel Limited, a Dosco Subsidiary, to view the charging of Open Hearth Furnaces, the production of steel in Open Hearth Furnaces, the tapping of a furnace and the pouring of ingots, the hot rolling of ingotsinto blooms and the hot rolling of blooms into bars and rails.
Return to Quayside.
Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth presented with gift.
His Royal Highness Prince Philip presented with gift.
Few words by Her Royal Highness.
Farewells.
Embarkation.
WORK PREPARATIONS:
Only members of the Press Party in the Press Room at 9:30 A.M. November 10th, will be conveyed to the various locations chosen for press coverage. Desire of all Press Party Members to go to Dosco’s Steel Plant at Sydney is understood but the number who can be accommodated is of necessity restricted. Points where the Public and School Children are congregated also suggest themselves for press coverage and double assignments are, therefore, being suggested for some Press Parties to accommodate as many as possible at the Steel Plant.
Each visiting Press Party Member will have been delivered his assignment prior to his arrival at Sydney as a result of a draw. Cars will be provided with a driver and guide to convey those covering the respective assignments to their destinations. In each instance the courtesy driver-guide will remain with his own Party until they are ready to either return to the Press Room at the Isle Royale Hotel or proceed to the second half of his assignment. Driver-Guides whose passengers have double assignments should wait with them until both their assignments are completed.
STEEL PLANT INSTRUCTIONS:
Drivers conveying Press Party Members to the Open Hearth should enter via No.1 or No.3 Gates and deliver their passengers to the North West end of No.2 Shop near Mixer. Passengers going to the Mills should be conveyed to the North West section of the Blooming Mill.
STEEL PLANT GUIDES:
Car drivers acting as guides about the City will not be in-plant guides. Special guides will be provided each press group within the plant. Plant guides will be waiting for Press Party Members where car drivers deposit their passengers at the Open Hearth No.2 Shop or at the Blooming Mill.
GUIDE IDENTIFICATION:
Your Assignment Card indicates where you are to be conveyed. The guide or car driver also has an Assignment Card indicating which party he is to convey. Each Press Vehicle will show a green Press Sticker on left windshield and right side window.
PRESS VEHICLE – ROYAL MOTORCADE:
Occupants of vehicles No.11 and 12 in the Royal Motorcade will not be admitted to the Steel Plant. Only six of the twelve cars in the Motorcade will enter the plant.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
No additional tickets are required by Press Party Members. The Assignment Cards serve all purposes and gain admission where necessary.
LOCAL PRESS:
Local Press Representatives covering the arrival of the Royal visitors are required to be in their positions at 9:30 A.M. at the Dock.
PROTOCOL: FOR CONVENIENCE OF GUIDES.
All Press Representatives and guides must abide by the tour regulations and adhere to Police instructions. No one may speak to Their Royal Highnesses without first being spoken to by them. The correct term of address is “Your Royal Highness” in one’s first reply to be followed in subsequent replies either by a repetition of this or “M’am” for the Princess and “Sir” for the Duke. No cameramen, Broadcasters or Correspondents should approach within 15 feet of the Royal Highnesses. Should Their Royal Highnesses Approach within less than that distance of your positions you should in no way obstruct their progress.
Every Press Party Member is required to carry his special credentials and badge at all times. No one is to address Their Royal Highnesses without having being addressed first nor to request Their Royal Highnesses to adopt any pose, change of position or to repeat any action. Passing through police lines immediately before, during and immediately after the Royal Procession is not permitted. You will have to prepare yourselves in position before the arrival of the Police Advance Party which will preceed (sic) every Royal Procession and remain in that position until the Procession has completely passed your location.
ROYAL TOUR PRESS PARTY ASSIGNMENTS WITH APPROXIMATE TIMES
Assignment 1. Press Vehicle.
Assignment 2.
{a} 10:15 – Docking of the Ontario; Disembarkation of Their Double Royal Highnesses; Presentation of His Worship The Mayor and Official Party; Presentation to Princess Elizabeth.
Location No. 2.
{b} 1:15 P.M.- Return of Royal Procession to Quayside; Presentation of Personally Inscribed Gift to Prince Philip; Embarkation of Their Royal Highnesses; sailing of Ontario for Newfoundland. CBC Radio Broadcast. Location No.2.
Assignment 3.
{a} 10:45 A.M.-Cover and photograph Royal Procession Double emerging from Dock, proceeding up Esplanade and coming around corner on Dorchester {all from 2nd
3rd and roof floors of Masonic Building.} Location No.3.
{b} 11:55 A.M.-From floor in back of furnace in Dominion Iron & Steel Limited Open Hearth No.2 Shop while C Furnace is being tapped.
Assignment 4.
{a} 10:50-Cover and photograph area of Central School Grounds Double where School Children are assembled. Photographed from upstairs window Kurtin’s, 270 George Street.
Location No. 4.
{b} 12:15 P.M.-North West end of Blooming Mill Building near
entrance where Royal Tour rejoins Company Officials to
view Steel Rolling operations.
Assignment 5.
{a} 10:55 A.M.-Cover and photograph procession as it passes by Double the corner of Townsend Street from the top of Steward MacDonald’s Garage. Location No. 5.
{b} 12:20 P.M.-Watching ingots being rolled into blooms from Blooming Mill Pulpit.
Assignment 6.
{a} 11:00 A.M.-Cover and photograph procession in front of St. Double Joseph’s School from Fraser MacAulay’s upstairs window, 802 George Street. Location No. 6.
{b} 12:20 P.M.-From Blooming Mill cross-over to photograph Party passing by.
Assignment 7.
{a} 11:05 A.M.-Cover and photograph procession in front of Double Ashby School from 265 Whitney Avenue. Location No. 7
{b} 12:25 P.M.-On stand to East Side of Flying Shears.
Assignment 8.
{a} 11:10 A.M.- Corner of St. Theresa’s Church, from J.D. Double Stewart’s 360 Whitney Avenue. Location No. 8
{b} 12:30 P.M.-From stand to South East side of Rail Mill.
Assignment 9.
{a} 11:15 A.M.-Constantine School, photographed from 2nd Double floor school window. Location No. 9
{b} 12:35 P.M.-From cross-over near Rail Cutting Hot Saw.
Assignment 10.
{a} 11:20 A.M.-Cover and photograph Royal Procession from Double side top of Subway at Pier on Victoria Road. Location No. 10
{b} 12:40 P.M.-From point near door where Royal Party will leave the Mills Department at the Sydney Steel Plant.
Assignment 11.
11:25 A.M.-Cover and photograph Royal Procession in front Single of Villanova School on Victoria Road from roof of Filling Station. Location No. 11
Assignment 12.
{a} 11:30 A.M.-Cover and photograph Royal Procession in front Double of Whitney School on Victoria Road from 1076 Victoria Road. Location No. 12
{b} 1:10 P.M.-Cover and photograph Royal Procession in front of Sacred Heart School on corner of George Street and Nepean Street from veranda on East side of George Street.
Assignment 13.
11:35 A.M.-Cover and photograph Royal Procession in front Single of Holy Redeemer School on Victoria Road from 1128 Victoria Road.
Location No. 13
Assignment 14.
11:40 A.M.-Cover and photograph Royal Procession turning Single corner of Dominion Street and Victoria Road from roof of Barber Shop. Location No. 14
Assignment 15.
11:55 A.M.-Presentation Steel Company Officials outside North West entrance to No. 2 Shop Open Hearth at Dominion Iron & Steel Limited, Plant.
Assignment 16.
12:00 P.M.-From top of stairs leading to floor in front of Open Hearth Furnace in No. 2 Shop, Dominion Iron & Steel Limited. Group stands to North Side of Stairways.
Assignment 17.
12:05 P.M.-In front of Open Hearth Furnaces between A & B in No. 2 Open Hearth Shop at Dominion Iron & Steel Limited, Plant.
Assignment 18.
12:08 P.M.-In front of Open Hearth Furnaces between C&D Furnaces, Open Hearth Department, Dominion Iron & Steel Limited, Plant.
Assignment 19.
12:15 P.M.-In front of Open Hearth Furnaces from South West corner of No. 2 Shop, Dominion Iron & Steel Limited Plant.
Assignment 20.
12:20 P.M.-Riding Crane A Cab with operator in Open Hearth Department, Dominion Iron & Steel Limited, to cover Royal Tour viewing the tapping of an Open Hearth Furnace at the Sydney Steel Plant.
Assignment 21.
12:20 P.M.-Riding Crane B Cab with operator in Open Hearth Department, Dominion Iron & Steel Limited, to cover Royal Tour viewing the tapping of an Open Hearth Furnace at the Sydney Steel Plant.
Guides (Car Drivers Outside The Plant) will be guides only to those who are covering a single or double assignment. Their responsibility will be to leave the Isle Royale Hotel at 9:30 A.M. for their destination, stay with the Press Party until the procession has passed and the Press Party has finished its particular work and then conveying their Party to the Hotel as soon as it is possible to navigate the streets with a vehicle.
Double Assignments. Drivers of vehicles with parties having a double assignment should park their cars in advance facing away on a side street heading for their destination and at least 25 feet from the street on which the Royal Procession is going to pass.
For additional information check with the Press Arrangements Committee or with the Royal Visit Information Officer L.J. Doucet.
Sydney, N.S. October 31/51
