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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 0180.PDF
• The heaviest jingle "lift" ever achieved by an aircraft in Australia was made by a "Bristol" Freighter of Australian National Airways m January 19JO. The carj*n consisted of a Greyhound Road Grader, weighing 9,264 lbs. and measuring 21 ft. in length, 7 ft. y ins. in width and $ ft* in height. 25 JANUARY 1951 \ sr. . rveiiivrays were linked and the delivery of freight between the two1 islands speeded up. On present figures cargo is being carried by 8 air at the rate of nearly 16,000 tons a year, and this traffic alone is estimated to have put an additional £30,000 of revenue into a . rail system that was showing losses. The SHBW employed onthis work in the past, however, have proved incapable of handling 2 all the goods that were offering and now tenders are being calledfor the operation under charter of cargo aircraft of the type of the Bristol Freighter. Manufacturers, merchants and other businessmen will wel- come this move, because the demand for the service in the past October and, 19 ^2 October and, 1950 -N.Z The Freighter is < capable of carrying many types of cargo which other aircraft a re unable to accommodate THB
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