NEW MONOPLANE
TOWED TO AERODROME ASSEMBLY AT RONGOTAI [BY TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Monday The first of the new Lockheed Electra monoplanes ordered by Union Airways of New Zealand, Limited, arrived at Wellington last night on »the Union Steam Ship Company's freighter Haurnki from Los Angeles, via Auckland. The machine, which is to be assembled at Rongotai Aerodrome, was unloaded at Pipitea Wharf this morning and towed to the airport by lorryIts tail was attached to the back of the lorry, the machine running on its extended undercarriage. Owing to tne width of the aeroplane, even without wings, it was necessary _to take a roundabout route and the journey too about an hour. . , • The wings and other equipment arrived at Rongotai from the slup late in the afternoon. Work on the '« will start to-morrow. This will first occasion on which ,a large c cial aircraft has been assembled at Rongotai. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23123, 23 August 1938, Page 8
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150NEW MONOPLANE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23123, 23 August 1938, Page 8
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