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Post by Tony on May 12, 2012 22:43:34 GMT 12
From The New Zealand JournalThursday, February 25, 2010 Union Airways Travel Poster - Main Trunk New Zealand - mid 1930s Union Airways, a subsidiary of the Union Steamship Company, commenced operation on the Main Trunk Route - which left Auckland out off the main trunk! Non-Aucklanders will be appreciative of this, no doubt. Just desserts and all that. Apparently, it was considered that the express rail service on the North Island Main Trunk line meant that air transport could not compete effectively with rail. How wrong they were in the long run. Union Steamship, the Southern Octopus as it has been called, extended its tentacles out to regional routes as well but within a relatively few years it was clear that a shipping line had no comparative advantage in operating an air service. De Havilland airliner Karoro (gull) being loaded at Palmerston North airport, circa 4 November 1936. De Havilland DH86 Express biplane, Kotuku, circa 1939, possibly at Rongotai, Wellington (according to Turnbull library, but I'm not convinced!) Creature Comforts... Interior of an aircraft possibly a De Havilland Express in the 1930s. Posted by kuaka
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on May 12, 2012 23:22:03 GMT 12
ZK-AEG over Dunedin....
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Post by johnnyfalcon on May 13, 2012 9:06:30 GMT 12
Is that photo of AEF taken at Paraparaumu? Thanks for the post!
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Post by thomarse on May 13, 2012 9:39:18 GMT 12
Nelson gets my vote......
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Post by dakman on May 13, 2012 11:17:44 GMT 12
It think Nelson also
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Post by flyjoe180 on May 14, 2012 16:42:14 GMT 12
It does look like Nelson.
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Post by westland831 on May 26, 2012 7:35:29 GMT 12
I think it is Blenheim and, in particular, Woodbourne rather than Nelson... In Richard Waugh's "Strait Across" it notes that the Woodbourne terminal was moved to Omaka in 1937 until being returned to Woodbourne in 1947
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Post by Sarge on May 28, 2012 15:53:32 GMT 12
Having spent a lot of time at Woodbourne, I would agree that it is Woodbourne. The hills are too far away to be at Nelson, The surrounding area looks more like Marlborough and there are no hills like that around Rongotai
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