KINGSFORD SMITH’S AIR SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 842, 10 December 1929, Page 6

KINGSFORD SMITH’S AIR SERVICE

Advices received by the last Sydney mail state that the Australian National Airways, Ltd., are about to inaugurate their hitherto contemplated passenger services between Sydney and Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne, and Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane. The first plane is already in operation in Sydney and is of similar type to the famous Southern Cross —a threeengined monoplane from the Fokker Works in Holland. The Australian National Airways, Ltd., is the company created and sponsored by Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieuten-ant Ulm. Both Kingsford Smith and Ulm are now in Australia in ’connection with the commencing of the operations of the company. The type of planes adopted for these services will create a great amount of confidence in the minds of the travelling public, for the Southern Cross, the original of the type bought by the company-, has created an amazing reputation for reliability. It is the intention of the company to make all their flights on Union super spirit and Atlantic motor oil exclusively. A novel road was laid recently at Middlesborough, England. A continuous metal carpet consisting of steel and iron plates, constructed in the form of grids, with bars and voids, was laid on a concrete foundation, while the latter was still unset. Concrete was worked into the voids on the surface of the plates, binding the foundation of the metal carpet as a firm part of the roadway. A nonskid surface was thus provided.