“AVRO-YORK”

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1944, Page 6

“AVRO-YORK”

NEW C' RGO+PLANE. January 17. The “Avro York.” twin sister to the Lancaster bomber, lias had its first, private view. The machine is a freighter with a maximum cargo capacity of ten and a hair tons. It is a monoplane with 102 ft. wing span. 78ft length, has four Rolls-Royce Merlin or Lour Bristol Hercules engines, giving a speed of 300 miles hourly.' It is a utility aircraft, but is the largest transport plane produced in Britain. Its twin brother is a passenger plane and carries 50 people. With a range of over 3000 miles, it can carry light tanks and dismantled aircraft, etc. Its weight is 30 tons and height 20 feet. Correspondents saw three jeeps stowed away in the huge fuselage and there was still room for more freight. It is a direct off-shoot of the famous Lancaster bomber, and the Avro Company are to manufacture it without detriment to the output of Lancasters. Trie fuselage is underslung like that of a racing car, but its proportions are those of a limousine. Ten and a half tons of freight can be transported 500 miles, but a load of eight tons would make possible a journey of 1500 miles. The designer is Roy Chadwick.