AUSTRALIAN AIRWAYS.
NEW PASSENGER, SERVICE.
Advices received by the Jast Sydney, mail state that the Australian National Airways, Ltd., ■ are about to inaugurate their hitherto Contemplated pdssenger 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 three-engine monoplane from the Fokker works in Holland*
The Australian National Airways, Ltd., is the company -created and sponsored by Captain Kingsford Smith and Flight-Lieutenant 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 flight® on Union Super Spirit and Atlantio Motor Oil exclusively.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17762, 9 December 1929, Page 5
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