RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1935, Page 7

RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA

LOCKHEED TYPE OF PLANE KINGSFORD SMITH’S PLAN AMERICAN CRAFT LAUDED CENTENARY RACE LESSON By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Honolulu, Jan. 14. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith revealed to-day that he holds the manufacturing rights in Australia and New Zealand for all commercial types of Lockheed planes. He may produce them at Sydney in -conjunction with his air transport business there. “The London-Melbourne race proved that American planes lead the world and are the most desirable for Australia,” he said. “We will modify our Lockheeds to conform to Australian regulations,” He said Captain P. G. Taylor had cancelled his contract with the British Imperial Airways and would return to Australia on the Mariposa’s next voyage. Sir Charles praised Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam’s flight, but condemned trans-ocean flights without a navigator. “A flier is asking for disaster, depending on dead reckoning,” he said. “I was so run down after my trans-Pacific flight that I have been more or less in. the care of doctors since. I am definitely out of trahs-ocean flying in single motored ships.” He plans to buy out the share of Australian backers in the Lady Southern Cross, but will be unable to sell the plane in the United States. He may try to break the London-Melbourne record next April or October with a new. plane.