![]() Urbain-Faurec was Curator at the museum in Tananarive. Photos show pilots, aircraft, aerial views, local people encountered en route etc. In 1937 it was taken over by Regie Air Afrique. Services extended to Elisabethville in 1935, connecting with Imperial and Sabena routes to Europe, and to Algiers and Marseille in 1936, with Regie Malagache offering passenger flights with Air France and Regie Air Afrique. This pioneering 1600 mile "feeder" route included 250 miles over open sea, and took 2 days, and was complemented by new steamship connections between Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion. Weekly airmail flights began from Tananarive to Broken Hill in Northern Rhodesia, where they connected with Imperial Airways' Cape to Cairo route, reducing delivery times to 10 days. The Air Ministry supplied two SPCA 41Ts, which Lefevre flew over in stages from France. In 1934 Governor General Leon Cayla persuaded the French government to approve new airline Regie Malagache, with pilot Rene Lefevre its Director. Up to this time, mail between London, Paris and Madagascar took 25 days by boat, sailing every 15 days. This presents a history of early aviation in Madagascar, followed by a detailed description of the flight from Tananarive to Elisabethville in the Belgian Congo. This appears to be very rare, with one copy in Madagascar's National Archive (Serie D2: 100), and none on Worldcat or Jisc. p(7) is missing (checked against copy 167/300 this gives photo credits to recto and is blank to verso). Two leaves p(5) and (9) have come loose and been laid in with creasing and a little loss. Interiors very good, lightly creased and tanned with some faded Ecole Regionale Service de l'Enseignement ink stamps. The photos are credited to Services Photographique de Madagascar. 205 + (6)pp including 56 b/w photos in text + 16 plates (15 b/w photos + 1 route map). Original b/w photo illustrated wraps 17 x 23cm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Printed in Taranarive by Imprimerie des Arts Graphiques. Limited edition ink stamped 177 / 300 (p2). ![]()
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