Clipper news, Vol. I, No. 2, June 11, 1940

              CLEFFER ¡SLEWS
FROM TREASURE ISLAND
NEWS BULLETIN OF THE PACIFIC DIVISION • PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Vol. I - Mo. 2	June 11, 1940
TRAMSPACIFIC EXPRESS
Although the average air express user thinks in terms of jewelry, samples, catalogs and other items which do not weigh very much and which require expeditious delivery, heavier shipments find their way into Clipper cargoes with surprising regularity.
Pan American Airways’ China-bound Clipper last week carried a 187-pound box containing spare airplane parts. An air line in India, the TaTa line running between Bombay and Karachi, needed the parts and needed them in a hurry to keep the service in operation.
They wore shipped by air from Pottsville, Pa. to San Francisco, transferred to a clipper at Treasure Island for Hong Kong, to be relayed again by air to Bombay. The express charges actually exceeded the value of the parts, but the expense was insignificant in comparison with the loss which would have had to be sustain.ed -**4.f service had to be suspended.
Poultry air express across the Pacific now has been expanded to give Guam and Manila the benefit of the breeding achievements of California hatcheries. For some months baby chicks have been consistent users of the San Francisco-Honolulu service. Manila is a little too far av;ay for chick shipments, as it is necessary to deliver them within 72 hours after they come from the eggs. So, for shipments to the Philippines the hatcheries reverted to the older method of shipping hatching eggs. Following an experimental period during which shipments of a dozen or so eggs were carried with 100 percent results in Philippine incubators, or under Philippine hens, the Express Department accepted a shipment of 540 hatching eggs consigned to Manila.
Most popular commodity on the eastbouncl run from Honolulu to San Francisco consists of flowers, chiefly leis, which can be purchased in Honolulu, sent at air express rates to the United State at an actual saving of cost under the price for leis made on the mainland of home-grown flowers. On the arrival before Mother’s Day, there were 393 flower shipments from Honolulu.
And on the next departure there was a shipment of flowers (a dozen roses) from San Francisco to Honolulu!