Re: Rumour

["James C." <james_ccj@my-deja.com>]

In article <sk6L4.538$TI6.372231@news0.optus.net.au>,
  dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage) wrote:
> 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
>
He wasn't always lucky until his company produce one of the first Phill
Collins albumn which earn them millions of punds. Then he decided to
expand his business to airlines, soft drinks, multiplex cinemas,
railways goes on ballon several times aound the world and now have his
eyes on Australia.

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Cheers

James


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