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Title: Farman/Air Lines |
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Description: The Farman Company or Société Générale des Transports Aériens (SGTA) was a French aviation firm founded on February 8, 1919. Brothers Henri, Maurice and Richard Farman ran the commercial airline as well as the as Farman Aviation Works, a company that designed and produced airplanes. Farman Company/SGTA was an airline that flew for fourteen years until 1933 when it was incorporated into France's newly formed national carrier, Air France. The firm was based in France with its official headquarters at Toussus-le-Noble, Yvelines, France. Throughout the 1920's Farman/SGTA offered regional service throughout Northern Europe. With flights leaving from Paris, destinations included Croydon and Surrey in Great Britain, as well as various other destinations in the Low Countries. On May 26, 1926 – the year that this poster was published – the company commenced its longest passenger flight, offering passengers service from Paris to Berlin (an 8-hour flight). |
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The following year, in 1929 – as part of what R.E.G. Davies describes as a trend of "consolidation in Europe" – Farman/SGTA entered into an agreement with Deutsche Luft Hansa (D.L.H) to expand its service further. With the agreement, Farman/SGTA expanded its service to Berlin, linking the German city with other cities in its established routes, including Copenhagen and Malmo, by travelling via D.L.H. hubs such as Cologne and Hamburg. Perhaps the company's most iconic aircraft was the Farman F.60 Goliath. The aircraft was originally designed as a bomber plane in 1918, at the back end of WW-I. Unfortunately, a prototype didn't undergo its initial until 1919, right at the end of the war, making it ostensibly useless. Seeing the potential of the aircraft the Farman Brothers did not abandon the new machine. Rather, the plane was converted to a 12-14-seat passenger plane. |
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