HP Halifax in Oz Post-War ...

[jcf]

Her's an interesting page, on Geoff Goodall's site, dealing with civil Halibag use in Australia:
http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/halifax/hphalifax.html

"As a trial, G-AIWT Port of Sydney departed Stansted on 23 April 1947 on an around-the-world tramping flight.
Under the command of LAMS Chief pilot Captain Keith Thiele, with Graham Humby listed as copilot, the Halifax
routed via Iceland, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Island, Fiji, New Zealand. The
load from Fiji to Auckland was 2.5 tons of empty beer bottles to help a bottle shortage at the Auckland
brewery which supplied Fiji. Then to Sydney and return to England, reaching Stansted 4 June 1947
carrying 7 tons of dripping, which was in short supply in Britain."



Beer and fat, those folks had proper priorities.

[zenrat]

Two of the 5 food groups Jon... 

June '47.
"The company's first charter flight was from Sydney to Singapore with a mixed cargo including 89 live dogs in cages. This was in response to high prices being paid for guard dogs during to a post-war crime wave in Singapore. The local dog population had been eliminated during the wartime Japanese occupation, when dogs provided food for the civil populace."

A great link with some interesting pics.  Thanks Jon.

[NARSES2]

Cheers Jon 

The load from Fiji to Auckland was 2.5 tons of empty beer bottles to help a bottle shortage at the Auckland
brewery which supplied Fiji.

So two happy groups of people