Pan-American airways would extend service here
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- Pan-American airways would extend service here
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- English
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- The American Chamber of Commerce Journal Volume XIII (Issue No.9) September 1933
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- 1933
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- 16 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL September, 1933 Pan-American Airways Would Extend Service Here Bulletin Photo Landing at Manila Foreground, Assistant Pilot William Ehmer; standing, Pilot W. S. Grooch; cockpit, in front of Photographer Claudio of TVT, M. H. Bixby. PHILIPPINE • NATIONAL • BANK ALBAY ANTIQUE CAMARINES SUR CAGAYAN CAPIZ CAVITE CEBU SULU This bank has “acquired properties" for sale in the following provinces: DAVAO ILOCOS NORTE ISABELA LAGUNA LA UNION LEYTE MANILA TARLAC ZAMBOANGA MINDORO NUEVA ECIJA NEGROS OCC. NEGROS OR. PANGASINAN RIZAL SORSOGON TAYABAS These properties are mostly agricultural lands, and the Bank is willing to sell them on instalments covering periods up to ten years. INTERESTED PARTIES MAY APPLY TO — the branches of this Bank at: BACOLOD, OCC. NEGROS, CABANATUAN, NUEVA ECIJA, CEBU, DAVAO, ILOILO, TARLAC, LEGASPI, ALBAY, and LUCENA, TAYABAS You may also apply to Provincial Treasurers, most of whom are agents of this Bank. PHILIPPINE • NATIONAL • BANK ESCOLTA MANILA, P. I. In August Vice-President M. H. Bixby of Pan-American Airways, in a Sikorsky/seaplane with Pilot W. S. Grooch and Assistant Pilot William Ehmer, flew to the Philippines from Hongkong and undertook an exploration of the field here for a commercial airline between Luzon and China. Before leaving Manila on the return trip to Hongkong, Sunday, Sep tember 3, Bixby had made application to the Philippine legislature for the franchise for this project, which he had determined would be feasible if the necessary support should be forth coming. In conjunction with the Chinese National Airways this company is operating a line of airplanes on schedule 1600 miles up the Yangtze river in China, daily trips between Hankow and Shanghai. Public response has been remarkable, Bixby says, no doubt largely on acCUttat of the mail advantages, so the line is already on a paying basis. If a mail subsidy can be procured here, for mails between the United States and the Philippines especially, Bixby says schedules can be arranged in conjunction with steamships that will effect a 12-day time between Manila and San Francisco, about half the time of the steamship schedules now. On such details the plan depends. There would be every advantage in a mail schedule of 12 days between Manila and the Pacific coast of America. The Bixby proposal brought another, from Dutch interests, for a line between Manila and Singapore or Batavia connecting with the Dutch company’s air service to Europe. The Iloilo-Negros Air Express run ning an air taxi service between Iloilo and Negros and making semiweekly trips between Iloilo and Manila nas surveyed the field for extending its service to Cebu and Zamboanga and also to Batavia, this flight to connect pas sengers with Europe by the Dutch line of air planes from Batavia. The Bixby flight from Hongkong to Manila via Lingayen gulf was highly noteworthy in the records of aviation here, the more so as it was undertaken in every-day manner without the blare of much publicity. Landing was made at Lingayen gulf and Santiago point tentatively chosen as a regular landing place; in the same vicinity are other possible landing places, im portant from the refueling standpoint. Base stations at Manila may be either Bacoor bay at Cavite, during much of the year, or Laguna de Bay; and passengers and mail may be landed and taken on at Admiral’s landing opposite the Manila hotel. By using some point at Lingayen gulf as a way station for refueling, 300 pounds more of pay load may be carried. Pan-American Airways is not a manufacturing company, but strictly an operating company free to buy whatever planes it prefers. Bixby said that for the China-Manila run seaplanes with cruising economical speed of 150 miles an hour would be advisable, and that such planes could now be obtained. The Sikorsky used for the pioneer flight cruises economically at 110 miles an hour. The faster plane ought to make the crossing Hongkong-Santiago Point in less than 4 hours, possibly in 3-1/2 hours. (The marine distance between Manila and Hongkong is 635 nautical miles, and between Manila and Linga yen 110 nautical miles). Passengers landed at Lingayen might go directly to Baguio before visiting Manila, and passengers leaving the islands might embark at Lingayen. Unques tionably there would be some desirable develop ment of Lingayen as a hotel point. First Half of 1933 . . . (Continued from page 14) A utomotive imports For the first time in the Philippines, American motor equipment was forced to snare the market with cars of foreign make. More than a fourth of the total number of passenger units imported during the period were of European manufac ture. This was due entirely to the introduction of various “bantam” types for use as “ten and five centavo” taxis, a new system of transporta tion which is rapidly supplanting the two-wneeled horse-drawn traditional calesa in Manila. The business was encouraged by a liberal franchise IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL
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