U.S. AIR FREIGHT CHALLENGE TAKEN UP BY LONDON COMPANY
(Rec. 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 16. ” We are going to beat the Yanks to the rich air freight pickings in the Pacific. We will fly anything anywhere in the Pacific and will beat anybody who .’tries to compete so far as rates are concerned,” said the chairman of London Aero Motor Services Ltd., Dr Graham Humby, when he arrived from America via Auckland in a converted Haltdn Halifax named Port of Sydney. The flight from Auckland took five and a-half hours. Dr Hu in by, who is a brother-in-law of Sir Thomas Beeohanl. said his company would operate six Halifaxes from Sydnev. The planes would carry seven tons of freight for distances of up to 1,000 miles
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Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 7
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