GOODS BY AIR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20927, 5 January 1938, Page 14

GOODS BY AIR

SOME VARIED CARGOES

LONDON. December 10. A ten of bricks has just been flown from Holland to England. The aeroplane carrying this unusual cargo was i one of four Curtis Condor machines owned by International Air Freights, an English company formed to develop aerial transport. The ’planes were purchased in America at a cost of over £13.000 each. | These machines can each carry' two | tons of freight at a speed of 174 miles an hour—with pilot, wireless operator and. perhaps, 2000 day-old chicks as well. The company is operated under the direction of Mr Guy Robson, a young airman who. in 101 years, and with 2400 flying hours to his credit, has piloted his own machine over I every' country of Europe, and into the ! heart of Africa as well.

“It is more economical to fly at night time than during the day,” said Mr Robson. "The idea of air freightage is to get something from one place to another cheaply and quickly. To-day, it is possible for a provincial manufacturer. as soon as his factory closes for the day, to send his goods by rail to London, where they are picked up by International Air Freights and, perhaps. delivered as far east as Warsaw before noon on the following day ” At the present time, much of the company’s business is transacted between Britain and Holland, although the huge Curtis Condor ’planes fly to Copenhagen. Berlin. Prague and Warsaw as well. Flowers picked in Holland in the afternoon are. thanks to air freightage, now delivered anywhere in England before the opening of the markets on the following morn.ng. A typical miscellaneous cargo of goat skins, glassware, furs, textiles, chairs, valuable pictures, canaries and mongooses can. to-day, fly through the air with the greatest of ease.