VH-ULF    Westland IV                                                      (c/n  WA1898)

                                

                                      This A.J. Jackson photo does not depict VH-ULM, but rather the prototype Westland IV.
                                      G-EBXK, with three 95 h.p. Cirrus III engines.  In the event, VH-ULM was to have been
                                      a similar machine, purpose built for the Shell Oil Company of Australia, but never actually
                                      went out there.  A Capt E J Jones (former Deputy Controller of Civil Aviation) and Flg Off
                                      H C Owen left Australia in August 1929 to go to Westlands to supervise production of the
                                      aircraft. When tested (with the three in-line engines) Jones found the performance insufficient
                                      to meet the Company's requirements in the Australian climate, and decided to cancel the order.
                                      Westlands later re-engined the IVs with 105 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major 1A radials
                                      and this aircraft became the Wessex.   The VH-ULG aircraft was later sold to Sabena to fill
                                      an order for four of the machines, and became OO-AGD.