G-EARV Westland Limousine III
(c/n WAC.8)
The
Westland Limousine was an post-WW I four to five seat airliner.
In addition to the
prototype, mark I,. five Limousine IIs and two Limousine IIIs were
produced. The Instone
Air Line
Co flew a couple of them in 1920 on a service from London to Brussels
and London
to
Paris. G-EARV seen above in this Westland Aircraft photo
was shipped to Newfoundland
in April 1921 and registered G-CAET. It was operated by the
Aerial Survey Co on seal and
fishery
spotting, and was one of the first civil aircraft to be fitted with
skis in the winter.
It later
went to Laurentide Air Sevice of Montreal and was scrapped in 1923 due
to wood
rot.