FRENCH PEACHES FLOWN TO BRITAIN
R.A.F. LANCASTER RENTED BIG DROP IN PRICE RESULTS Received Monday, 11 a.m. LONDoN, June 10. Air - Vice-Marshal Bennett -has solved the problem for Covent Garden mercnants who wished to take advantage of France's finest peach crop for ten years, but who were unable to arrange quick transport because the hiring of small planes was too expensive. The Daily Mail says that Air ViceMarshal Bennett rented a Lancaster from ine R.A.F., with which he was running a servipe from Paris, carrying 25U0 cases daily, with the resuit that the prices 'of peaches, which were fantastic in London | during the war, have already dropI ped to one shilling each, and they will probably soon be sixpence each.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 4
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