FARM MACHINERY IS SERVICED BY AIR TRANSPORT
The service farmers in the Bay of Plenty may expect when they want their farm machinery seen to was well illustrated to an Edgecumbe farmer this week when he had a rotary baler serviced by a mechanic, who flew from Hamilton to do the job in one day. The farmer, Mr W. Gow, had experienced trouble with the . baler, which was a new machine and he rang through to the dealers at Hamilton, who promised to send a serviceman on Monday in a Tiger Moth aeroplane belonging to the Waikato Aero Club. The plane flew from Hamilton in an hour and landed in a paddock on the farm at 2 p.m. The work on the baler took abo,ut two hours and the plane then returned to Hamilton.
By using the plane the serviceman was able to attend three machines in three different areas in one day and the cost to Mr Gow is expected to about £3 cheaper than if bus transport had been used.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 79, 21 December 1949, Page 5
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172FARM MACHINERY IS SERVICED BY AIR TRANSPORT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 79, 21 December 1949, Page 5
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