No Ceremony To Mark Arrival
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 18. There will be no official ceremony to welcome the first of three Lockheed Electra turboprop aircraft to replace the three DC-6’s of Tasman Empire Airways when it arrives at Whenuapai tomorrow afternoon.
Mr F. A. Reeves, general manager of T.E.A.L., will meet the aircraft and crew at the airport. The plane, named Aotearoa, will go into service to Sydney on December 1.
The next Electra will arrive in Auckland late in December. Twenty representatives of the Lockheed Corporation will be in Auckland while T.E.A.L. goes through the initial stages of operating the Electra. Some will remain for six months. A field representative of the Allison division of the General Motors Corporation, which supplied the engines for the Electra, will be based in Auckland until early in 1961.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29056, 19 November 1959, Page 14
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