Eastern Airlines Buys Out the Air Service
This file appears in: End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
Eddie Rickenbacker, General Manager of Eastern Airlines, visited Mrs. Harry Williams many times to negotiate the deal to buy the company in 1936. Because of the decline of the company, Rickenbacker was able to buy it for well under what it was worth.
Image Courtesy of the E.F. Newman Collection, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
This file appears in: End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
Jimmie Wedell would never enter the MacRobertson Race from England to Australia. The Gypsy Moth in which he was giving a lesson crashed just outside of Patterson on June 24, 1934. Wedell died…