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Aviation History
1958
1958 - 0511.PDF
18 April 1958 527 Silver City continue to use their faithful Bristol 170 Freighters on their car ferry services. This is a Mk 32. (Right) One of Dan-Air's four Yorks. Aviation Traders—see Air Charter, Ltd. • B.K.S. Air Transport, Ltd., conduct scheduled services from basesat Southend, Newcastle and Leeds to Jersey, Isle of Wight, Ostend, Bilbao, Diisseldorf, Belfast and Glasgow. Inclusive-tour services arealso undertaken. Head Office: 1 Marylebone High Street, London, W.I. Executives:C. J. Stevens, chairman/managing director; J. W. Barnby, director; H. Spring, manager; J. J. Beer, secretary. Fleet: four Dakota, one Eliza-bethan. On order: two Elizabethan. Britavia, Ltd.—see British Aviation Services. British Aviation Services, Ltd., have now become Britain's largestindependent carrier, its principal constituent airlines being Britavia, Ltd., and Silver City, Ltd. Britavia has two divisions: the Aquila Air-ways Division is Britain's only flying-boat operator, and flies scheduled services from the base at Hamble to Lisbon, Madeira and SantaMargherita (scheduled services to Las Palmas and Genoa have been discontinued); the Hermes Division is based at Blackbushe and con-centrates on trooping services and inclusive-tours. The main activities of Silver City Airways, Ltd., are the cross-Channel ferry services (from Ferryfield to Le Touquet, Calais and Ostend, from Southampton to Cherbourg and Deauville, and fromBelfast to Ronaldsway and Stranraer) and coach-air services from London to Paris (the coach-air service London - Lyon has beensuspended). In addition to taking over the cross-Channel services formerly oper-ated by Air Kruise, Silver City has—by the formation of a Northern Division—absorbed Dragon Airways at Newcastle, Lancashire Air-craft Corporation at Blackpool and Manx Airlines at Ronaldsway. The Northern Division's scheduled network includes international routesfrom Newcastle to Diisseldorf, Hamburg, Brussels and Amsterdam, and from Blackpool to Ostend, and domestic routes linking Blackpool,Newcastle, Isle of Man, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Leeds/ Bradford, Glasgow, Carlisle and Jersey. Head Office: 62 Brompton Road, London, S.W.3. Executives: Eoin C.Mekie, chairman; A.V-M. S. D. MacDonald, general manager, B.A.S.; W. G. Franklin, commercial director; M. D. Day, technical director.Fleet: seven Bristol 170 Mk. 31, 14 Bristol 170 Mk. 32, seven DC-3, one DC-2, three Solent, five Hermes, two Heron, three Rapide, oneConsul. Cambrian Airways, Ltd., has expanded its scheduled network sinceconcluding a 10-year contract with B.E.A. in 1956, and now flies to the Channel Isles from Swansea, Cardiff, Liverpool and Bristol; andto Belfast, Manchester, Southampton and Paris from Cardiff and Bristol. In February 1958 B.E.A. acquired a 33J per cent share in Cambrian. Head Office: Rhoose Airport, Cardiff, Wales. Executives: J. H. Watt,chairman; W/C. L. B. Elwin and W. W. Stanley, joint managing directors; B. J. Callan, commercial and operations manager; G. A.Perrott, chief pilot; R. H. Boutcher, chief engineer. Fleet: two DC-3, three Heron. On order: one Heron. Channel Airways (East Anglian Flying Services, Ltd.). Scheduledpassenger services from Southend to Rotterdam, Channel Isles, Ostend and Le Touquet, with connections to Birmingham, Ipswich andRochester. Head Office: Southend Airport, Essex. Executives: S/L. R. J. Jones,managing director; A. E. Hugo Parsons, director operations. Fleet: five Dove, two Rapide. Dan-Air Services, Ltd., carries out charter flights and inclusive-tours from Blackbushe (the technical base is at Lasham). Head Office: 36-58 New Broad Street, London, E.C.2. Executives:F. E. Newman, J. W. Davies, E. O. Wallis (directors); A. F. Austin, secretary; L. E. Moore, general manager. Fleet: four York, two DC-3,one Bristol 170. Derby Aviation, Ltd. A wide range of activities include scheduledservices from Derby to Jersey, Isle of Man, Glasgow and Ostend, in- clusive-tours, charter services, flying training, aerial survey, aircraft salesand maintenance. Head Office: 78 Buckingham Gate, London, S.W.I. Executives: G/C.C. A. B. Wilcock, chairman; J. Harben-Grice, W/C. H. A. Roxburgh, E. W. Phillips, R. R. Paine, directors; A. C. Flets, secretary. Fleet: threeDC-3, three Marathon. Don Everall Aviation, Ltd., operate scheduled services from theMidlands to the Isle of Man and to the Channel Isles, charter services and inclusive-routes from their main base at Wolverhampton.Head Office: Elmdon Airport, Birmingham. Executives: D. Eve'all and C. Everall, directors; A, D. Atkinson, operations manager; E. Holden,chief engineer. Fleet: one DC-3, three Rapide, one Messenger, three Auster. Dragon Airways—see British Aviation Services. Eagle Airways, Ltd., has developed a rapidly-growing network ofscheduled operations. Current services with Vikings are from London to Luxembourg, Innsbruck, Dinard, La Baule, Ostend and Jersey, andfrom Manchester to Ostend. Services operated by Viscounts are Man- chester to Hamburg, Copenhagen, Brussels and Frankfurt, London toPisa, and Birmingham to Majorca (the last two services also being operated by Vikings). An associated company, Eagle Aviation, conductcharter and trooping services, while a recently-formed subsidiary, Eagle Airways (Bermuda), Ltd., plans to inaugurate a daily New York-Ber-muda service using Viscount 805s on May 1 this year. Head Office: Marble Arch House, 40 Edgware Road, London, W.2.Executives: H. Bamberg, chairman / managing director; A. R. Bamberg, N. Ashton-Hill, G. W. Pitt, J. H. Sauvage, directors.Fleet: 17 Viking, two Viscount 805. East Anglian Flying Services, Ltd.—see Channel Airways. Fison-Airwork, Ltd., undertake long-term helicopter contracts andcharter flights. Recent activities include oil exploration in Nigeria, pipe-line inspection in Pakistan, and numerous crop-spraying andinsect-control operations. Head Office: Bourne, Cambridge. Executives: M. Wyatt, chairman;J. E. Harper, L. A. Lafone, W. J. McEwen, W. E. Ripper, G. E. Wildman-Lushington, directors; A. G. Wormald, secretary. Fleet: eightHiller, four Whirlwind. Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd.—scheduled operations includeI'Safari" services_ to West, East and Central Africa (using Viscounts, in conjunction with Airwork, Ltd.), a colonial-coach service to Gibral-tar, and the "Africargo" freight service to East Africa. H.C.A. also perform frequent trooping, charter and inclusive-tour flights. Anassociated company, Hunting-Clan African Airways, flies freight ser- vices from Salisbury to Kariba, Lusaka and on to Nairobi, and inclu-sive-routes to Kariba and Mozambique. Field Aircraft Services, Ltd., Loading a Hampshire Down lamb into a Hunting-Clan DC-3 at Nairobi, (BeJswJ Skyways Continental coach-air DC-3 service to Paris.
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