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One ofbOACs 12 Vickers VC/Os, ihortly to enter scheduled service, is seen here at Beirut Since its foundation BEA has become thebiggest operator of air services in Europe, operating by 1961 more than a quarter of totalintra-European passenger-miles. The route network extends to all the major cities ofEurope, and in recent years has been extended to the Mediterranean and Middle East areas.More than one-third of BEA's effort goes into UK domestic routes. The corporation was the first airline in theworld to introduce propeller-turbine aircraft —the Viscount 701 in 1953—and during 1960and 1961 introduced Comet 4Bs and Van- guards. Tridents enter service with BEA in thespring of 1964. BEA has been the prime mover behind fare-reductions in Europe, andits business is now predominantly made up of tourist-class operations generated by anelaborate promotional fares structure. Almost all international services are operated in pool-partnership with European carriers. Head Office: Bealine House, Ruislip, Middle-sex. Main Base: London (Heathrow).Executives: Board Members of BEA are: Anthony H. Mil-ward, chairman; Sir John Keeling, deputy chairman; Lord Balfour of Inchrye; S. Ken-neth Davies; A. C. Ping; Sir Giles Guthrie; R. L. Weir; B. S. Shenstone.Executive management: H. E. Marking, deputy chief executive and secretary; C. A.Herring, personnel director; Capt J. W. G. James, flight operations director; P. C. F.Lawton, commercial and sales director; B. S. Shenstone, chief engineer; R. L. Weir, finan-cial controller; W. Simpson, chief public relations officer; Dr A. Buchanan Barbour,director of medical services. Employees: 16,164. Fleet: 13 Comet 4B, six Viscount 951, 14Vanguard 953, three Argosy, 19 Viscount 806, 20 Viscount 802, three Herald, two Heron IB,three Rapide. On order: 24 Trident. British Guiana Airways-Corporation. -see Guyana Airways British Overseas Airways Corporation—BOAC was established as a corporation in 1939 to acquire and merge the undertakings of Imperial Airways (founded in 1924 out of fourcompanies going back to 1919) and British Airways. BOAC began operations on April 1,1940, maintaining essential air services through- out the second world war on behalf of theGovernment. Commercial revenue operations began on April 1, 1946, and the corporationwas responsible for all British flag services to the USA, Middle East and Commonwealth.In 1949 BOAC took over BSAA (British South American Airways), which was wound up. InMay 1952 BOAC introduced the world's first jet services with Comet Is; after recoveringfrom the two disasters of 1954, BOAC's operations have steadily expanded until to-day's extensive route-network is one of the world's largest, linking the UK with everycontinent. A round-the-world jet service was inaugurated in 1960, and a Comet service toNew Zealand on April 2, 1963. In terms of traffic load ton-miles carried BOAC ranks asone of the world's biggest international carriers. Associated through BOAC AssociatedCompanies are Aden Airways, Air Jamaica, Bahamas Airways, Borneo Airways, BWIA,Cathay Pacific, East African Airways Corp, Fiji Airways, Gulf Aviation (and its sub-sidiary, Aircraft Services (Gulf) Ltd), Malaysian Airways, THY (Turkish Airlines).Head Office: BOAC Headquarters, London (Heathrow) Airport.Main Base: London, Heathrow. Board members: Sir Giles Guthrie, chairman;Charles Hardie; J. W. Booth; G. H. C. Lee, commercial director; Keith Granville, chair-man, BOAC Associated Companies Ltd; Lionel Poole; Lord Rennell; R. M. Forrest,secretary; Lord Tweedsmuir; Sir Walter Wor- boys; Ron Smith; Anthony H. Milward.Executive management: Sir Giles Guthrie, chairman; D. L. Craig, senior general man-ager; C. Abell, chief engineer; B. W. Bamp- fylde, general manager, eastern routes; Dr K.G. Bergin, director, personnel and medical services; D. H. Glover, financial comptroller;W. Bray, general manager, planning; A. C. Ponsford, chief of public relations; T J.Glover, general manager, southern routes; G. H. C. Lee, commercial director; Capt D. I.Peacock, chief of flight operations; J. R. Stainton, general manager, western routes;R. M. Forrest, secretary. Employees: 20,783. Fleet: 14 Britannia 102 (stored), 13 Britannia312 (two leased to British United), 19 Comet 4, five DC-7C parked, two DC-7CF, oneCanadair CL-44D-4 leased from Seaboard World, 20 Boeing 707-436. On order: 12Vickers VC10, 30 Super VC10. British United Air Ferries, a subsidiary of AirHoldings embracing Channel Air Bridge and Silver City Airways, operates vehicle ferry,passenger and freight services from Southend, Lydd, Coventry and Hum to 14 points inEurope and the Channel Islands. Services to Basle, Geneva, Bremen, Liege, Ostend, Rotter-dam and Strasbourg and between Coventry and Calais are operated with Carvairs androutes to Jersey, Guernsey, Cherbourg, Le Touquet, Calais, Deauyille and Dinard withFreighter 32s. Rail-air-rail services in co- operation with British, French, Netherlandsand Belgian National Railways are operated between London and France, Holland andBelgium and coach-air services between London and Calais, Ostend, Le Touquet,Cherbourg, Geneva, Strasbourg, Rotterdam and Basle. Bristol 170s in passenger configura-tion are used for summer inclusive tours. Silver City's former route network in the northof England has been taken over by British United (CI) Airways. Head Office: Portland House, Stag Place,Victoria, London SW1. Executives: Sir Myles Wyatt, chairman; F. A.Laker, managing director; R. L. dimming, A. F. Nickalls, D. A. Whybrow, directors;other executives as BUA. Employees: 700. Fleet: four ATL-98 Carvair (plus one leasedto Alisud), 20 Bristol 170 Freighter 32, one Freighter 31, three Freighter 21. British United Airways was formed in July 1960by the amalgamation of the Airwork group and Hunting-Clan and is owned by Air Hold-ings Ltd. Its principal associated companies are British United (CI) Airways, BritishUnited Air Ferries, Airwork International, BEA, Capitol Airways and Zantop Air Transport operate Argosy freighters
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