![]() ![]() ![]() When Meredith's financial problems worsened and the debenture became due for repayment, Davies and Newman took over the aircraft together with a six-month contract to operate a series of charter flights between Southend and West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport that formed part of the second Little Berlin Airlift. Davies and Newman agreed to take a debenture on Meredith's aircraft in return for extending financial assistance. As a result, Meredith soon found itself in financial difficulties. When Meredith's only aircraft suffered a mishap while taking off from Jerusalem's Atarot Airport on Christmas Eve 1952 that damaged the aircraft's tailwheel, this caused major disruption to the company's business. Meredith was formed in 1952 as a small ad hoccharter operator and flew a single Douglas DC-3 out of Southend Airport, where it also had its head office. Amongst Davies and Newman's clients for whom it acted as an air charter broker was a small airline called Meredith Air Transport. It subsequently diversified into air charter broking from an office at London's Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange. ![]() Dan-Air's parent Davies and Newman had been engaged in shipbroking in the City of London since 1922.
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