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Re: Rumour

Barry Campbell (barryC@qimr.edu.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> jacko wrote:
> > 
> > In article <MPG.1366ef13bc174d5498982c@news5.newsfeeds.com>,
> >   Patrick Dunford <no.sp@m.please> wrote:
> > > >Hmm. Ansett Australia was bought by Air New Zealand last month.
> > > >Nobody in NZ let alone Air NZ has ever been interested in public
> > > > transport to our airports here.
> > >
> > > Bus companies ?
> > >
> > Ansett started life as a bus company - Hamilton to Geelong or Melbourne
> > wasn't it?
>
> In fact Ansett is an amalgam of three major airlines Australian National
> Airways which was founded by the Holyman family who were in the shipping
> industry, Ansett Airways and Airlines of Australia which grew out of the
> New England Motor Company in Lismore NSW. So it actually started life as
> two bus companies.

And back in 1973 a bloke named Branson started a record company.....

cheers
David