When the South African Railways and Harbours acquired the assets of Major Allister Millers Union Airways on 1 February 1934, it included and order for three Junker JU52-3m aircraft. These aircraft, powered by three Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, in preference to the standard German BMW engines, arrived in South Africa on 1 November 1934 and were utilized on the domestic routes and regionally to Rhodesia and as far north as Nairobi and Kisumu.
