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1950
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FLIGHT, 12 January 1950 COMING OUR WAY : No extensive recognition knowledge should be needed to determine the identity of this l*iiunit' to Caledonia, the f agship of B.O.A.C. StrartJcruiser fleet, seen above at Idlewild before departure on its delivery f.ignTT~—Ai of the official naming ceremony at Prestwick last Saturday appears on page 35. CIVIL AVIATION NEWS MARATHON TOUR IT is announced by Handley Page. (Reading), Ltd., that oneof its Marathon I four-engined feederliners is about to begin a four-month 35,000-mile world sales tour. The air- craft chosen is the first production-line 20-seater, G-ALUB, and it will be demonstrated in New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Nerth Africa and Europ£. The Marathon is claimed to be the first aircraft in the world to conform in all respects with the I.C.A.O. safety recom- mendations. Now in quantity production, the type is capable of flying 4,000 lb of freight or a maximum of 22 passengers and their luggage over stage distances of 500 miles at cruising speeds between 160 and 210 m.p.h. All-metal construction makes it particularly suitable for operating in extreme climatic conditions. •-•.-.-;:-sj?—"••--.. - • - 5 •-.-.- AIR VERSUS SEA IN a recent speech at Bournemouth, the Parliamentary Secre-tary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Mr. G. S. Lind-gren, expressed the view that it would not be long before shipping began to suffer considerable loss of both passenger arid freight traffic to air transport. It would be affected in somewhat the same way as the railways, which in past years had lost considerable traffic owing to the development of road transport. "Last year," said Mi. Lindgren, "the 300,000 passengers who chose the air as a means of trans-Atlantic travel meant the potential loss of 30c,000 first-class boat passengers." He added that, in addition, some of the most profitable forms of freight such as mail, gold, diamonds and other valuable com- modities were now in many cases t>eing carried by air. (He was referring, of course, to the fact that freight of this kind, though small in bulk, earned comparatively high rates and had consequently l>een a reliable source of income to shipping companies.) B.O.A.C. RESIGNATION REORGANIZATION of the B.O.A.C. executive has led tothe resignation of Mr. Vernon G. Crudge. who was recently appointed general manager (North America); previ- ously he was general manager, Western Division, which covered the area west of the meridian of London to Japan and Austra- lasia, including North America. Mr. Crudge's resignation is an amicable arrangement, arid he will continue to give his services to the Corporation for a period. Recent economy measures have led to a severe "pruning" in North America, and the move of the Corporation's base from Montreal to Filton, completed early last year, had rendered anomalous the position of an operations management normally situated in America with its fleet based at Bristol. Soon the Strato- cruiser order will have been completed and the main task of the Corporation's organization in America will be to intensify the efforts to meet the growing competition on their routes from world, and particularly American, airlines. B.O.A.C. will certainly not be alone in feeling regret at losing the benefit of Mr. Crudge's long experience. He joined Imperial Airways in 1931 as assistant to the traffic manager, and in 1936 was a member of the West African Route Survey. Subsequently he became area manager, Central Africa, and then regional director. After the outbreak of war he took part in the Congo River survey for the establishment of a flying- boat reserve route, and in 1941 was appointed regional director, West Africa. Going to the United States in 1942 as regional director, West Atlantic, Mr. Crudge was in charge of North Atlantic opera- tions until the recent reorganization. In 1944 he was adviser to the United Kingdom delegation at the l.C.A.O. Conference at Chicago, and in 1946 at the Auglo-American Civil Aviation Conference at Bermuda. In 1947 he was chairman of the North Atlantic traffic conference of I.A.T.A. Last Friday Mr. Crudge returned from New York, but made no statement concerning his resignation (other than to affirm the amicable form it took) or about his future plans. His experience and ability are very well appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic, and there is little dou be quickly sought by other concerns. AER LINGUS REPORT DURING 1949 Aer Lingus carried 193,000 passengers, anincrease of 13,000 over the figure for 1948 and a record for the company. Related to figures recently released by I.A.T.A., this means that one in every twenty of all passengers flown by- scheduled airlines in Europe was carried by Aer Lingus.
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