Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways (33 page)

Roy Farrell waves from his US Army C-47, alias Betsy.

Sydney de Kantzow in 1946

Betsy’s first flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong and Sydney, 1946. Roy Farrell (left) with Bob Russell.

Kai Tak Airport, 1947.

Vera Rosario became Cathay Pacific’s first air hostess in 1948.

John Kidston Swire (1893–1983).

Swires’ Hong Kong headquarters from about 1897 until 1960. Butterfield was dropped from the title in 1974, although Butterfield ceased to be connected with the company in the 1870s. An example of the Swires’ innate conservatism!

Jock Swire as Deep Water Bay Hussar. Hong Kong, 1914.

All that was left after the Braemer Reservoir crash in 1949.

A Cathay Pacific DC-4. Range: 2,100 miles. Cruising speed: 200 mph.

Jock Swire with his daughter Gillian and John Browne (above) and with members of a Cathay Pacific crew.

Left:
Adrian Swire with Michael Miles.
Right:
Lord Maclehose of Beoch, Sir John Bremridge and Mr Duncan Bluck at a reception held at HAECO Hangar No. 2 to commemorate the arrival of the first Cathay Pacific B747-200 on 31 July 1979.