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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 1087.PDF
2 August 1957 177 Scot Aviation's Twin Pioneer demonstrator G-AOEP is seen here over Sydney at the end of its 23,000-mile tour (see last week's report). BREVITIES PROVISIONAL figures issued by K.L.M. for the first sixi months of 1957 show a profit of £730,830. Total operating revenue from January to June, 1957, was £21.9m, with total costs,including depreciation, of £21.5m. Allowing for taxes on income, plus a tax reduction of some £500,000 on capital investments, thenet profit is nearly £150,000 more than the corresponding period in 1956. * * *S.A.S. representatives have been in San Diego discussing the 880 jet transport with Convair.* * * Australian domestic airlines have flown 11 million passengers in the past six years without a fatality. * * *American Airlines are to dispose of about ten Convair 240s. DC-6s are to be used in their place.* * * Ansett Airways of Australia are reported to have ordered threeLockheed Electras. The airline is to increase its Convair 440 fleet from two to ten. * * * Ekco Airborne Search Radar Type E120, supplied by EkcoElectronics, Ltd., is being installed in the Bristol Britannia 302s I shortly to be delivered to Aeronaves de Mexico, S.A. ! * * * Silver City Airways transported two Royal cars when HerMajesty the Queen visited the Channel Islands last week. One was flown from Southampton to Jersey and another fromSouthampton to Guernsey. * * * The air talks in Washington between the U.S. Government anda Belgian delegation have ended without a decision on the Sabena request for a route to California. "We gave them no encourage-ment)" a U.S. official is reported to have said. * * * Mr. Airey Neave, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to theM.T.C.A., and Sir Alfred le Maitre visited Hurn on July 19 to inspect the fire service and to present a station-efficiency trophy.They also inspected Viscount 700 production. * * * Recently demonstrated was the new Aquonly J25 iced-drinksdispenser, which should prove popular in airport restaurants and crew-rooms. The makers (Ice Water Dispensers, Ltd., 87/91Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W.I) are specialists in such equip- ment, with Sabena and the U.S.A.F. among their customers. * * * The Council of the Air Registration Board announces the issueof the following Notices to licensed aircraft engineers and to owners of civil aircraft: No. 4, Issue 21, July 1,1957, Propellers ApprovedFor Use On Civil Aircrajt), and No. 46, Issue 2, July 1, 1957 (Identification Tags On Control Cables With Swaged Ends). * * * A week-end course on The Problems of Management in Trans-port has been arranged by Ashridge College in conjunction with the Institute of Transport for the week-end September 13-16.Enquiries and applications should be made to the Secretary, Ash- ridge, Berkhamsted, Herts. The course is open to men andwomen, and the cost is £4 4s. This is a special chamber built by Douglas, Santa Monica, to test the soundproofing of the DC-8'sstructure. This "anechoic" room is claimed to produce nearly 100 per cent sound-absorption. THE COMMONS DEBATE CIVIL AVIATION (continued from page 151) "There is no possibility that the Corporations can be other than themain flag carriers for this country. That is just a fact of life and exist- ence. It has nothing to do with the policies which Ministers madeadumbrate in the House of Commons. ... I do not receive any com- plaints, nor do I think that there are any complaints, from the Boardof B.O.A.C. at the way in which I have backed it up since I have been Minister of Civil Aviation. If the Hon. Member wants proof ofthat, he had better consider the quite natural and fair complaints that I get from the private enterprise industry, pointing out the enormoussums of money that are being spent on new aircraft, the great sums of public money invested in this Corporation, and the way in which theGovernment supports it in every possible way, both in national and international affairs. "It does not lie in the mouths of Hon. Members opposite to talkabout breaking bipartisan policy and dragging this matter into the House of Commons. I did not do it. They did it. ... It is the Hon.Member for Reading [Mr. Mikardo] and his colleagues who are guilty of double talk in this debate, not myself. "B.O.A.C. and B.E.A. are stronger and more efficient and more com-petitive than they have ever been. They have better aircraft, better opportunities, and they are carrying more passengers. For Hon.Members opposite to talk about great harm, and cutting away founda- tions, and all those things, is not to talk sense. "I wonder whether the air can go on developing at this rate withoutin the end—nobody knows when—making serious inroads into the shipping business. If that be true, is it really wise to impose a tightmonopoly to keep those great companies, with all their knowledge and expertise, out of the air altogether? I wonder whether Hon.Gentlemen opposite would care to say that that is their settled policy? If they do, all I can say is that it is entirely contrary to the nationalinterest. The Colonial-coach services would never have come about if privatemoney had not been risked. These things increase the total number of air passengers, and as such they are clearly of advantage to the Cor-porations, which will always enjoy a preponderating share of the traffic. "I do not know when the new high-density T.34 services will comeinto being, nor does anybody else, but obviously it was right that the A.T.A.C. should take some account of the future, although its findingsmust at the moment be vague, and largely conjectural. "There is a case to be made by the independent companies whichsay that thev should be having 70 per cent or more and the Corpora- tion should be havin? a lesser share. The private enterprise companiesdo not think that they will have a fair distribution of what they have built up by their own enterprise and money. Do not run away withthe idea that I am giving some great and prized favour to these companies. "The Hon. Member for Eton and Slough [Mr. Fenner Brockway]said that he was worried about the aircraft industry. No doubt. So are we all. He could not have made my case better for me. Because ifthere is a case for encouraging independent companies it is to increase the size of the home market. There again, I find this astonishing diffi-culty which the Opposition always have in trying to relate nationaliza- tion to the facts of life. It is a very difficult thing to do. "The Opposition will be extremely unwise if they go into the Lobbyagainst something which is elementary justice in the interests of the Corporation itself. If the Opposition wish to push monopoly andnationalization to these extreme ends, let them vote and be hanged to them."
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