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486FLIGHT, 8 April1960 A Britannia 317 at Nairobi Airport. It is operated for British and Commonwealth shipping by Hunting-Clan and will now become one of the fleet of the Airwork/Hunting-Clan Group AIRLINES. OF THE WORLD THE BRITISH CARRIERS . . . OLLEY AIR SERVICE operates services to Newmarket and other racemeetings as well as charter flights. Head Office: Gatwick Airport. Executives: T. W. Morton, chairman;S. A. Carter, secretary and commercial manager; others as for Morton. Fleet: as far Morton. - TRANS AIR operates Viscount trooping services to the Mediterranean,scheduled services, inclusive tour services to various Mediterranean areas and a network of freight services to Germany, France and theChannel Islands. Executives: G. H. Freeman, chairman and managing director; CapiS. G. Websper, chief pilot; D. L. Brooks, chief engineer; W. Richardson, technical manager; H. S. Perren, commercial manager. Fleet: threeViscount 804, two Viscount 736, three DC-3. Autair Ltd conduct all types of charter helicopter operations, theirexperience including service with Antarctic expeditions. Head Office: 75 Wigmore Street, London Wl. Executives: W. H.Armstrong, managing director; G. Jacques, operations manager; T. Howie, chief engineer. Fleet: seven Bell 47. The BKS Group of Companies includes BKS Air Transport Ltd, BKSEngineering Ltd and BKS Air Survey Ltd. .. . . Head Office: Berk House, Baker St, London Wl. : . BKS Air Transport Ltd operate scheduled passenger and freight ser-vices within the British Isles and Europe from bases at London, South- end, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Leeds/Bradford, Edinburgh and Belfast.European destinations include Oporto, Bilbao, Stavanger, Bergen, Lille, Rotterdam, Ostend, Basle, Dusseldorf and Palma. Scheduled servicesare also operated from Leeds/Bradford to Dublin, Belfast and Newcastle- upon-Tyne, from Newcastle to Dublin, Belfast, Leeds/Bradford andEdinburgh and from Edinburgh to Belfast and Newcastle. BKS Air Transport Ltd have recently announced their plans to introduce a dailyvehicle air ferry service between Liverpool and Dublin, commencing April 25 this year. Inclusive tour services and chartered flights arealso operated. Executives: C. J. Stevens, chairman and managing director; J. W.Barnby, director; J. Beer, secretary; H. W. Ayre, chief pilot; A. Selby- Lowndes, commercial manager; G. W. Gorbin, commercial managerscheduled services; J. B. Latte, sales department. Fleet: three DC-3, one Wayfarer and three Elizabethan. On order: five Avro 748 fordelivery commencing early in 1961. BKS Engineering Ltd have bases at Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford andNewcastle and are approved to overhaul, repair or modify all types of aircraft. Contract maintenance for other airlines is also undertaken bythe company. Executives: C. J. Stevens, managing director; J. W. Barnby, director;T. Taylor, general manager; A. E. S. Johnson, commercial manager; W. A. Belcher, chief inspector. BKS Air Survey Ltd Photogrammetric engineers and geophysical sur- veyors who recently opened new laboratories at Leatherhead are speci- alists in 1:96 to 1:500 contour surveys as well as the normally accepted smaller scales; they work for more than half the county surveyors in Britain. Executives: J. W. Barnby, managing director; C. J. Stevens, W. A. Paffces, directors. British Aviation Services have now become one of Britain's largestindependents. Their principal operating company is Silver City Airways. The main activities of Silver City are the cross-Channel ferry services(from Ferryfield to Le Touquet, Calais and Deauville; Mansion to Ostend; and Hurn to Cherbourg) and rail-air services from London toParis with an air link between Manston and Le Touquet. In addition to taking over the cross-Channel services formerly opera-ted by Air Kruise, Silver City has—by the formation of a Northern Division—absorbed Dragon Airways at Newcastle, Lancashire AircraftCorporation at Blackpool and Manx Airlines at Ronalds way. The Northern Division's scheduled network includes international routesfrom Newcastle to Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Brussels and Amsterdam, and from Blackpool to Ostend and Dublin, and domestic routes linkingBlackpool, Newcastle, Isle of Man, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, Glasgow, Carlisle and Jersey. Head Office: 62 Brompton Road, London SW3. Executives: Eoin C.Mekie, chairman and managing director; AVM S. D. Macdonald, deputy managing director; H. C. Kennard, joint managing director, Silver City;W. G. Franklin, commercial director; W. E. Hogsflesh, operations director; M. D. Day, technical director; C. M. Fox, financial controller;A. E. Barnes, secretary. Fleet: 14 Superfreighter, six Freighter, 11 DC-3, four Hermes, one Dove, one Dragonfly. British Eagle International Airways Ltd is the name now given to theEagle Group holding company, Harold Bamberg Holdings Ltd. Appli- cation to the CAB to use the same name has been applied for by EagleAirways (Bermuda) Ltd and Eagle Airways (Bahamas) Ltd. Agreement has recently been reached with the Cunard Steamship Company wherebyCunard will acquire the controlling interest in the Eagle group of companies. For Eagle companies see page 487. Head Office: Marble Arch House, 40 Edgware Road, London W2.Executives: H. R. Bamberg, chairman and managing director; M. A. Guinane, deputy managing director; N. Ashton Hill, Maj-Gen C. G. B.Greaves, G. W. Pitt, J. H. Sauvage, G. D. Peacock, directors. Fleet: ten Viking, three DC-6C, two Viscount 700, one Bristol Freighter, oneBritannia 318 (on lease). Cambrian Airways Ltd commenced scheduled operations in 1949 andconcentrates on services serving South Wales and the West of England. In 1956 BEA and Cambrian signed a ten year operating agreement andin February 1958 BEA acquired a one third share in Cambrian. Despite a severe reversal in traffic in 1958, announced plans for 1960 indicatea full recovery in 1959 and a resumption of the Company's policy of developing services serving South Wales and the West of England. Ithas recently announced it is increasing its fleet from three DC-3s to five; all five will be purchased from BEA. Routes to be operated byCambrian in 1960 are: Cardiff/Bristol/Swansea - Jersey/Guernsey; Cardiff/Bristol - Manchester (acting as feeder to BEA services fromManchester to Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen and BOAC services to New York); Cardiff/Bristol/Southampton- Paris; Cardiff/Bristol - Dinard and Cardiff/Bristol - Belfast. Head Office: Cardiff (Rhoose) Airport, Nr Barry, Wales. Executives:.J. Morgan (chairman); Wg Cdr L. B. Elwin, managing director; W. W. Stanley, secretary; B. J. T. Callan, operations manager; G. A. Perrott,chief pilot; R. H. Boutcher, chief engineer. Fleet: five DC-3. Channel Airways (East Anglian Flying Services Ltd) operates scheduledpassenger services from Southend, Ipswich and Rochester to Channel Islands, Paris, Rotterdam, Ostend and Le Touquet, and from Ports-mouth and Shoreham to Channel Islands and Paris. Head Office: Southend Airport, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Executives:Sqn Ldr R. J. Jones, managing director; A. E. Hugo Parsons, director operations; T. Atkins, chief engineer; S. M. P. Walsh, chief pilot. Fleet:four Viking, two Dakota, two Bristol Wayfarer, four Dove, two Rapide. Dan-Air Services Ltd operates scheduled services, charter flights andinclusive tours. Head Office: 36-38 New Broad St, London EC2. Executives: F. E. F.Newman, J. W. Davies, E. O. Wallis, directors; J. A. Browne, secretary; L. E. Moore, general manager. Fleet: four York, three Bristol 170, threeAmbassador, two Dove. Derby Aviation Ltd (Operators of Derby Airways). The range ofactivities includes scheduled services from Derby, Northampton, Luton, Cambridge, Gloucester and Cheltenham to the Channel Islands andfrom Derby to Dublin, the Isle of Man, Glasgow and Ostend (the latter service is also operated via Birmingham). Scheduled services fromCardiff and Bristol to Ostend, Palma, Perpignan, Nice and Luxembourg. In conjunction with the leading travel agents an extensive range of Cambrian's fleet of DC-3s hare now been purchased from BEA
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