DESERT TRANSPORT
NEW ZEALANDER’S WORK. AFCK LAND, Dec, 3. A New Zealander who introduced modern motor tranport to the .Desert of Syria and Iraq arrived in Auckland by the Niagara yesterday. He is Air Norman D. Nairn, formerly of Blenheim, who is revising his 'native land for the first time since lie left early in 1916 to join the Flying Corps. He was met yesterday by his mother, whose home is now in AVelli ngton. With his brother, Gerald, Air Nairn conquered the desert by motor. Now he has just come from a business visit to the United States as the result of which he expects that the Nairn Eastern Transport Company Limited will soon he running a service between Damascus and Bagdad using three engined twclve-pli'cscnger ’pianos which will fly over 530 miles of desert in four and a half hours. Before the motor service from Beirut to Damascus and Bagdad, a total distance of 612 miles, was begun by the Xairns in 1923. a last camel carvan carried the mail across the desert in eleven days. Motors now do tho trip in less than thirty hours. Air Nairn once made a particularly fast run of 10. - hours.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1929, Page 8
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