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1955
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11 March 1955 309 BRITAIN'S INDEPENDENT OPERATORS A Concise Directory to the Private Scheduled and Charter Airlines Air Charter, Ltd.—Channel Air Bridge service for vehicles andsupplementary freight, Southend to Calais. Trooping to West Africa and the Canal Zone. Charter (passengers and freight),and pleasure flights. Head office, 15 Great Cumberland Place, London, W.I. Main bases, Southend and Stansted, Essex.Executives: Capt. E. N. Jennings (chief pilot and operations manager), G. W. Forster (commercial manager), A. F. Nickalls(chief accountant). Fleet: seven Yorks, three Tudors, three Bristol 170s Mk 31, one DC-4. On order, two Bristol 170sMk 32, two DC-4s. In 1954 Air Charter carried 22,935 passengers and 26,430 short tons of freight, and flew 2,239,039revenue miles. Air Couriers (Transport) Ltd.—Operators of charter services.Head office, Croydon Airport, Surrey. Main base, Croydon. Executives: C. P. L. Godsal, F. W. Griffith (directors) andK. J. Kelly (chief engineer). Fleet: two Rapides and one Gemini. Air Kruise, Ltd. (Trans-Channel Airways).—Scheduledpassenger and charter services. Head office, Lympne Airport, near Hythe, Kent. Main bases, Lympne and Lydd Airport(Ferryfield). Scheduled routes: Lydd -Le Touquet and Lydd - Ostend. Inclusive tour routes, Lydd - Basle, Lydd - Geneva,Lydd - Turin, Lydd - Venice, Lydd - Salzburg, Lydd - Copen- hagen, Lydd - Lyon, Manchester - Geneva, Manchester - Ostend,Birmingham - Basle and Birmingham - Ostend. Fleet: four Rapides and four Dakotas. In 1954 Air Kruise carried 25,000passengers. Air Navigation and Trading Co., Ltd.—Contract charter ser-vices and flying training. Head office, Squires Gate Airport, Blackpool. Main bases, Blackpool and Middleton. Executives:R. L. Whyham (chairman and chief engineer), G. C. S. Whyham (operations manager), Capt. T. J. Franks (chief pilot),E. Minshaw (C.F.I.), and W. R. MacPherson (chief inspector). Fleet: two Avro 19s, four Ansons, two Rapides, two Dragons,six Austers, four Tiger Moths and three Proctors. On order: one Drover or Otter. Airviews, Ltd.—Scheduled passenger services, charter andpleasure flights and aerial photography. Head office, Manchester Airport, Wythenshawe, Manchester. Main base, ManchesterAirport. Executives: J. B. Martin and H. A. McCarthy. Scheduled routes: Manchester - Southampton - Isle of Wight.Fleet: Rapide, Auster, Cygnet and Tiger Moth. Airways Union, Ltd.—The company controls subsidiariesengaged in the manufacture and repair of aircraft and com- ponents and the operation of airports, flying clubs, charter ser-vices and flying schools. Head office, The Airport, Weston- super-Mare, Somerset. Main bases, Weston-super-Mare,Exeter and Plymouth. Executives: R. King-Farlow (chairman), S. J. Cox (secretary and general manager), F. G. Jeans, W. R.Parkhouse and R. J. B. Pearse, Fleet: one Gemini, three Austers, five Tiger Moths and one Miles Messenger. In 1954 AirwaysUnion carried 3,730 passengers. Airwork, Ltd.—Operators of scheduled passenger and freightservices, long-term contract flying and trooping services. Head office, 15, Chesterfield Street, London, W.I. Main bases, Black-bushe and London Airport. Executives: M. D. N. Wyatt (chair- man and joint managing director), Sir Archibald Hope (jointmanaging director), R. Loudon dimming (director and secre- tary), D. R. Seton-Winton (sales director), I. J. Rees (technicalmanager), A. G. Miller (general manager, commercial), K. R. Sangster (commercial manager), L. A. Lafoe (manager, overseasdivision), L. R. Castlemaine (general sales manager). Scheduled routes: Colonial coach services from London to Nairobi, Salis-bury and Accra with intermediate traffic on each route. Freight services from Milan, Zurich, Basle, Frankfurt and London toNew York and Montreal, via Manchester and Glasgow. Fleet: four Hermes, eight Vikings and three Dakotas. Aircraft ordered:three DC-6As and three Viscount 700Ds. Aquila Airways, Ltd.—Scheduled flying-boat passenger ser-vices, and charter and trooping work. Head office, 1, Great Cumberland Place, London, W.I. Main base, Southampton.Executives: B. T. Aikman (managing director) and R. Clark (operations manager). Scheduled routes: Southampton - Lis-bon - Madeira - Canary Islands, Southampton - Marseilles - Capri and Southampton - Genoa and Santa Margherita. All-freight service from Southampton to Perth, Australia has been applied for. Fleet: five Short Solents and two Short Hythes. In1954 Aquila Airways carried about 8,000 passengers. Autair, Ltd.—AH classes of charter work—survey, photo-graphy, publicity, freight and passenger services. Head office, 109 Jermyn Street, London, S.W.I. Main bases, Croydon andDusseldorf. Executives: W. H. Armstrong and R. Myhill, M. Macdonald (commercial manager). Fleet: three Sikorsky S-51s.On order, Bell 47Gs. B.K.S. Air Transport, Ltd.—Scheduled passenger and freightservices, charter and trooping work and daily newspaper service from Germany. Head office, 1 Marylebone High Street,London, W.I. Main bases, Southend, Newcastle and Leeds. Executives: J. W. Barnby, T. D. Keegan and C. J. Stevens,Scheduled routes: Newcastle and/or Leeds to Jersey, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight and Ostend, Southend to Leeds and Leedsto Belfast. Inclusive tours, Southend - Corsica - Southend, Southend - Majorca - Southend, Southend - Corsica - Majorca -Southend, Newcastle and/or Leeds - Basle - Leeds - Newcastle, Newcastle - Lourdes - Newcastle, Leeds - Lourdes - Leeds, New-castle and/or Leeds - Paris - Leeds - Newcastle. Fleet: five Dakotas and three Vikings. In 1954 B.K.S. Air Transportcarried 17,696 passengers and flew 1,612,510 revenue-freight- ton miles. Britavia, Ltd.—Operators of War Office trooping contracts,charter flying. Head office, 1 Great Cumberland Place, London, W.I. Main base, Blackbushc. Executives: Eoin C. Mekie(chairman), B. Lamplugh (operations manager). Route: all- A notable event in 7954 was the opening of Silver City Airways' private air-terry ter- minal at Ferryfield, near Lydd, Kent. Three of the Bristol 170 fleet is visible in this view of the airport, which is situated on flat ground near the coastat Dungeness.
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