Advanced Manufacturing Services are proud sponsors of the annual Royal Flying Doctors Association Golf Day.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is a service provided to 80% of the landmass of Australia. Not only to country residents but to all of us when travelling to these remote areas. Should an emergency occur, YOU may depend on this service to save your own or someone else’s life.  AMS supports this fundraising golf day to help this service stay alive for yourself and fellow Australians.

"Let's play for a sheep station"

A little bit of history...

Let’s, indeed, play for a sheep station. At least the next best thing... a painting of one. A painting was commissioned of the famous old woolshed on the former sheep station known as Kinchega near Menindee in far west NSW. This painting is the perpetual trophy for the annual tournament hosted by Macquarie Links International Golf Club to raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

In its heyday Kinchega Sheep Station covered more than one million acres and ran an average of 143,000 head of sheep. In June 1967, after about six million sheep had gone through its stands since its establishment in April 1855, Kinchega’s role as one of the great Darling River Stations ended.

After more than a century as a sheep station, Kinchega was allowed to return to its natural state. A beautiful land where Australia’s wildlife lives in co-existence with people. Phil Jones, the artist, has captured the majesty of the old woolshed... deserted, well-preserved and maybe still with a faint smell of lanolin.

English born Phil moved to Broken Hill in 1957 where he painted this magnificent piece in his Living Desert Art Gallery.

Waterford Crystal donated the 2 Ball trophy for this special event. It is a crystal bowl which has an etched copy of the painting on its base.