810.79611 Tri-Motors Safety Airways/5
The Liaison Officer of the Department of Commerce (Stevenson) to the Assistant Secretary of State (Carr)
Dear Mr. Carr: This is to confirm a request addressed to Mr. Thaw, of the Latin American Division, Department of State by Mr. York of our Aeronautics and Communications Section, on behalf of Captain Ralph A. O’Neill, Vice President and General Manager of the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line Inc., a division of the Trimotor Safety Airways Inc., 929 Graybar Building, Lexington Avenue and 43rd Street, New York City.
It is requested that the Department of State ask of the Cuban, Haitian, Dominican, French, British, Venezuelan, Netherland, Brazilian, Uruguayan and Argentine Governments temporary permission for three Sikorsky airplanes of the subject company to carry out survey flights over a route between New York and Buenos Aires. The stopping points were given to Mr. Thaw. The flights are to start about May 15 next.
As is known to the Department of State, the American company has obtained permission by a contract with the Argentine Government to establish an air mail line between Buenos Aires and New York, and to carry a fixed percentage of Argentine mail destined for certain countries. The company is making progress in the other countries concerned, and the proposed flights are intended for the purposes of making the necessary surveys to fix the actual route over which the line will operate and determine the places for lighting facilities, fuel and repair part stores and operating bases.
It is hoped that the Department of State will soon receive favorable replies from the governments concerned.
All cable charges in connection with this inquiry should be charged to the interested company whose spokesman authorized this arrangement in his letter to the Department of Commerce, dated April 25, 1929.
Very truly yours,