FOREIGN AIR LINES
SERVICES TO BRITAIN DISTINGUISHING COLOUR (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY. Nov. 11. Tlic Air Ministry announces that approval has been given for neutral civil aircraft, which wilt shortly fly between Britain, Sweden and Norway, to be painted orange to distinguish hem from military aircraft. Tlie service is to be operated by Swedish and Norwegian companies. The proposal to paint the neutral aircraft orange originally came lrom iie Netherlands. The national Dutch colours are red, white and blue, and it was felt there was a danger of the Netherlands aircraft being mistaken or British or French. The Netherlands request was made through its representatives who were informed that there would be no objection provided three days’ prior notice was given of a change. Five days later a Nazi broadcast in English from Zeesen declared that though Germany and France had consented to the Netherlands request, Great Britain refused because _ its Government hoped that similar colouring might produce incidents for exploiting the Netherlands in war. It is obvious that this story was a complete fabrication.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19391113.2.98.6
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 9
Word Count
178FOREIGN AIR LINES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 9
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in