Box 1: Scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, magazine illustrations, advertisements and postcards relating to world travel, particularly passenger shipping, circa 1947-1961. Scrapbooks and notebooks on passenger services connected with Australia and New Zealand, and particular vessels, including the ANDREA DORA and EMPRESS OF BRITAIN. Loose promotional literature and other ephemera relating to passenger shipping, circa 1955-1965. Royal Australian Artillery memo book, 1954.
Box 2: Album of ephemera relating to King's own journeys made by ship, aircraft and train, 1956-1973. Including passenger booklets, menus, tickets, baggage cards, hotel leaflets and crossing of the equator certificate.
Box file: Correspondence from 1965-1966 concerning the establishment of the Shipman's Club and refunds for members who had made subscription payments. Artwork and printed copies of the Shipman's Club newsletter. Press releases, advertisements, newspaper cuttings, and leaflets relating to passenger shipping companies in the same period. Also letters containing King's ideas for preservation of the passenger liner QUEEN MARY, sent to Lord Mancroft at Cunard Steamship Co Ltd.
Folio volume: Sketchbook entitled 'Spot-Light Planet 8mm Movie Productions' containing drawings of film stars, cars, ships and aircraft. Including a drawing of the departure of the GOTHIC from Fremantle at the end of the Royal Tour of Australia, 1954.
Oversize item: Album of advertisements and articles relating to passenger vessels, from newspapers and magazines, 1967-1972. Including articles on the KUNGSHOLM, MICHELANGELO, ORIANA, QUEEN ELIZABETH, QUEEN MARY and Q4 (later QUEEN ELIZABETH 2).

Administrative / biographical background
King was one of the directors of the theatre company Theatrescope, specializing in lunch hour plays at the Little Theatre Club and elsewhere in London during the 1960s (Theatrescope Original Lunch Hour Plays). As a teenager living in Australia, he compiled scrapbooks of world travel news, particularly events concerning passenger shipping. From his office at Queensway in London in 1965 he attempted to form the Shipman's Club, devoted to public knowledge of passenger shipping. He intended to produce an monthly newsletter, establish club rooms, and provide opportunities for visits and reduced-rate group travel. Unfortunately, this venture failed to gain sufficient support.