HISTORY: HUNTING-CLAN AIR TRANSPORT LIMITED Hunting-Clan Air Transport was a wholly private, British independent airline that was founded in the immediate post-World War II period. It began trading on 1 January 1946 as Hunting Air Travel Ltd. It was a subsidiary of the Hunting Group of companies, which had come from the shipping industry and could trace its history back to the 19th century. A change of name to Hunting Air Transport occurred in 1951. In October 1953, the firm's name changed to Hunting-Clan Air Transport, as a result of an agreement between the Hunting Group and the Clan Line group of companies to invest £500,000 each in a new company named Hunting-Clan Air Holdings Ltd, the holding company for the combined group's air transport interests. In 1960, Hunting-Clan Air Transport merged with the Airwork group to form British United Airways (BUA).
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