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1949
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FLIGHT APRIL 28TH, 1949 The British Corporations Rolls-Royce Merlins, are used on most routes, includingthe North Atlantic, to the United Kingdom. Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Ltd., is a wholly owned subsidiary of theCanadian Pacific Railway Co., which is a p'rivately owned concern. Services are mainly inter-city and transconti-nental, but extensions are being made across the Pacific to Australia with Canadair Fours. Other operators in Canada are Central Northern Air-ways, Ltd., Leavens Bros., Air Services, Ltd., Maritime Central Airways, Ltd., M. and C. Aviation Co., Ltd.,Northern Airways, Ltd., Queen Charlotte Airlines, Ltd., and Wheeler Air Lines, Ltd. Ceylon.—There is a Department of Civil Aviation, and.in 1947 the Government of Ceylon formed the operating company Air Ceylon, which is already flying to India andwhich holds a 16 per cent interest in Air India Inter- national. India.—In the Ministry of Communications a Director-General of Civil Aviation controls routes, airports, licensing and in-spection of aircraft. Air-India, Ltd.—formerly Tata Air Lines,established in 1932 and owned by Tata Sons, Ltd.—operates inter-nal services. Air India Inter- national, Ltd., was established in BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION CHAIRMAN (Sir Harold Hartley, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., M.C., F.R.S.) Deputy Chairman (Sir Miles Thomas, D.F.C.) Chief Executive (Whitney Straight, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C.) tration. S.A.A. operates to centres throughout the Unionand, on a joint basis with B.O.A.C., trunk services to London. Two other companies, Suidair International Air-ways, Ltd., and Union Airlines, Ltd., fly certain scheduled and non-scheduled services. Southern Rhodesia.—A Director of Civil Aviation is,established under the Minister of Defence and Air and Chairman of the Central African Air Authority. In thesame organization is the chairman of the Central African Airways Corporation, which was founded in 1946 as an air-line jointly owned by the Governments of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and the Protectorate ofNyasaland. Services are flown throughout the area and to South, East and West Africa. Kenya.—The Director of Civil Aviation is in the officeof the East Africa High Commissioner. East African Air- ways Corporation was formed in 1946 as a public cor-poration jointly owned by the Governments of the Kenya Colony, the Protectorates of Uganda and Zanzibar andthe mandate of Tanganyika, and is the chosen instrument for air services in the four territories. Nigeria.—There is a Director ofCivil Aviation in Lagos, Nigeria, and a West African Air TransportAuthority. The latter organiza- tion controls West African Air-ways, which was established in 1946 as a public corporationjointly owned by four Govern- Secretariat (Secretary and Legal Adviser—K. H. Staple) IAccounts (Chief Accountant—R. C. Atherton) Personnel and Services (Chief Personnel Officer- J. O. Blair-Cunynghame, O.B.E.) Commercial Development (Director— R. D. Stewart) r Deputy Chief Executive (Sir Victor H. Tait, K.B.E., C.B.) Technical Development (Director— A. C. Campbell Orde. C.B.E., A.F.C.) Medical Services (Director— Air Marshal Sir Frank Whittingham, K.C.B., K.B.E., LI.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.) Repair Division (Manager— J. H. Robson, O.B.E.) Western Division (General Manager— V. G. Crudge, O.B.E.) Lines Areas Lines 1948 to provide air servicesto Europe, with the Govern- ment of India, subscribing ashare of 49 per cent of the capital. The remainder wassubscribed by private in- terests, including Air India, Ltd., who are responsible foroperational management of the company. Indian National Airways, Ltd., was established in 1933,and operates over internal routes and to Pakistan. Other Indian operating companies include Air Services of India,Ltd., Airways India, Ltd., Bharat Airways, Ltd., Deccan Airways, Indian Overseas Airlines, Ltd., and Mistri Air-ways, Ltd. New Zealand.—The Director of Civil Aviation is respon-sible to the Air Secretary in the Department of Air. Operators are New Zealand National Airways Corporation—which was established by Act of Parliament in 1945 to operate domestic and international air services—and Tas-mau Empire Airways, Ltd. The latter started operations between Australia and New Zealand in 1940, after for-mation by the Governments of the United Kingdom (repre- sented by B.O.A C. with 38 per cent participation), NewZealand (Union Airways, taken over in 1946 by the N.Z.N.A.C., 39 per cent), and Australia (Qantas, . j percent). Pakistan.—A Director-General of Civil Aviation con-trols policy and ground organization in the Dominion, in which two cempanies have been granted licences to oper-ate scheduled services. Orient Airways, Ltd., flies ser- vices through Pakistan and India, while Pak Air, Ltd.,operates to centres in India and to Colombo, Ceylon. Both concerns are privately owned. South Africa.—The Minister of Transport, under a CivilAviation Council, is responsible for implementation of Government aviation policy. South African Airways,founded in 1934 as a subsidiary company ot South African Railways, is an autonomous Government corporation con-trolled by the Railways, Harbours and Airways Adminis- Eastern Division (General Manager J. W. S. Brancker) IU.K. Region (Manager— K. G. Granville) Areas ments — namely, those ofNigeria, the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia. Sudan.—Sudanese Airwayswas formed in 1946 by the Government of Sudan and isoperated under a management contract by the British com- pany, Airwork, Ltd. British Overseas Airways Corporation ""THOUGH still young, British Overseas Airways Cor-•*• poration may be said to have had its genesis in the earliest experiments in British commercial air transport: itis to those private companies which amalgamated to form Imperial Airways, ultimately to develop into B.O.A.C.,that credit must go for pioneering the air routes across the world and building up a nucleus of personnel andexperience upon which the post-war State airline has been built. During the war years B.O.A.C. was heavily engaged onmiscellaneous flying tasks all over the world so that, when the nationalization of British aviation was instituted afterthe war, the Government was able to take over a going concern of considerable experience, though it was oneequipped with a fleet of aircraft consisting mainly of con- verted war machines and pre-war civil transports. The spheres of operation for which the Corporation isresponsible, as laid down in the original plan m 1946, are the North Atlantic, Egypt and the Middle East, Africa,India and Ceylon, Australasia, the Far East and the Pacific. This year, through an amalgamation with BritishSouth American Airways, another great terminal area is added. Early post-war operations with Yorks, Lancastrians andDakotas were conducted from Hum, a R.A.F. airfield near Bournemouth, whilst flying-boat services with Hythesoperated from Poole Harbour, in the same area Head- quarters staff were established in several London offices,and the booking and traffic handling building, Airways r S
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