AIR TRANSPORT OF FRUIT
BRITISH SERVICE TO PARIS LONDON, June 9. Air Vice-Marshal D. C. T. Bennett, M.P., has solved the problem of Covent Garden merchants who wished to take advantage of France’s finest peach crop for 10 years but were unable to arrange quick transport because the hiring of small aeroplanes was too expensive. The “Daily Mail” says that Air ViceMarshal Bennett has rented a Lancaster from the Royal Air Force with which he is running a service from Paris carrying 2500 cases of fruit a day with the result that the prices of peaches, which were fantastic in London during the war, have already dropped to Is each and they will probably soon be 6d each.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24898, 11 June 1946, Page 5
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