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BRAMAS OF SPEED
Three Weeks Reduced To
Three Hours
Every day, now, there are fresh instances of the speed of modern travel, not only In cases where air-liners of "air specials" are em- ployed, but also in Journeys in which ocean liners and aircraft both play their part,
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Limit In Size And Tonnage Reached
missed which would have got him there in time by train. And here
Every one will welcome the' aa- is the case of a holiday-maker who met with an accident while cut-nouncement of the, Chancellor of climbing, and whose relatives the Exchequer that, as a result of dashed by aeroplane to the hospi- the impending agreement between tal where the patient lay.
the Cunard"and White Star Lines,
A new record in the speed of Olen air taxis are chartered to the Government now feel able to long-distance transport was estab- enable people to catch ocean lin-render such financial assistance as lished the other day, by a passer- ers after boat-trains have been wild enable the great Clyde-built. ger from New York to Calcutta, missed at London railway stations, steamer 634 to be completed, writes Mr. Jones. Embarking at New The other day we had the instance Mr Jardine Whyte to "The York in the Uner Conte dio a French business man who was Times." He says:The comane. Heioning of this ship is of national Savola, which set up a fresh re- in haste to reach Montreal cord on her royage to Genoa, he found on inquiry at one steamship importance for three vital rou- went on at once by train to Brin-offices in London that a vessel was
1. The paychological effect on dist, where he caught an Indian- leaving almost immediately. But bound aircraft of Imperial air- he was just too late to catch the the whole country will be tranen- boat-train which connected with ways; the result being that "he
It will bring encouragement"}, sqcceeded in making the complete this muling, A quickly-chartèred Journey from New York to Calcut- taxpiele. however, got him to and renewed hope to the shipbuild- ing industry in general and the un- ts, in, 14 days.
Liverpool in time.
employed on the Clyde in particu- Jar
barge.
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There is the instance of the traveller in Africa who, by air mall, effected in just over six hours a trip which, only a year previous- ly had taken him 15 days by mo-
"Recently, as an instance of the business use of air specials,"" we
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3 It will enable us to regain the Blus Rubend of the Atlantic.
"A striking example of the speed of air transport was forthcoming in the case of a District Commis-had the dash by the chief of a big stoner who had to make a journey business firm to the continent. He
It may also be necessary to ex- up the Zambesi river. In three left Croydon early, and had break-tend similar assistance to the pro hours, by aeroplane, he accomp fast in the machine while dying poted sister-ship, but thereafter it lished a journey which would have to Brussels. After a rapid inter- would be well if the shipbuilding taken him three weeks by river view there, he flew on to Paris, had industry would consider carefully another talk there, and after that if the limit in respect of size and
all on the same day—few back tonnage has not been reached, to London to report "to his fellow, A number of authoritie havi directors.
formed the view that, shipe of from "Fresh uses are constantly be-20,000 to 30,000 tans are the most ing found for air specials. One economical, as they are undoubted big machine was engaged to flyly the most comfortable and the One of the recent features of a party of critles from London to safest from the passengers stand- air transport" explained an Im- a new play in the provinces. point, and with these advantages perial Airways oficial, "has been another occasion a saloon- the competition inanere size might the increase in the use of specially plane was chartered by a manag-well be allowed to go by default so chartered aircraft, not only to desing
director to take party of far as we are concerned, more es tinations in this country." or on guests to the opening of a "newpecially as the question of speed" the continent, but also in long-dis- branch of his business in the Mid-need in no way be affected.
Football teams go by air tance flights along the Empire lands.
On the wider question of the nowadays. Pleasure parties. char-most effective method of stimulating Officials of our Special-Char-ter big machines, complete with the industry generally, no one will
tor-car.
routes.
see
On
stewards and catering arrange ments, to enjoy aerial excursions, and specials are often booked by
their honeymoon on the Continent with an air trip from London. to Paris,"
ter Department pick up their tele phones to hear urgent requests for a plane to rush a passenger to the sick-bed of some relative anewly-wedded couples who begin the continent; to fly an invalid to Switzerland; to lake jockey to "a race meeting in Belgium or" to carry as explorer to the heart of Africa. One of cur machine not long ago, flew a party of big-game hunters out to the Afri- can jungle. Here they camped for 17 days, the wing of the sero- plane
forming the top of their tent. Although this party were hundreds of miles from the near- est village, they managed to keep in daily touch with Nairobi by wireless.
4 Doctors are making a growing use of taxplanes. The other day
NAMING H.M'S
SHIPS
deny the point of the contention su well made by a speaker in the e- cent debate, that it is in the revival of shipping-in the carrying of a greater proportion of the world's freight in British bottoms-that the true and only real hope for the future of the shipbuilding industry tiee.
If the Government will concen trate on this phase of the question and bend their efforts to securing. lair play for British merchant ships in the fight for freight the
will shipbuilding industry
Adopting Names Of and flourish.
Notable Sailors
A
question in the House of
a London surgeon dashed up to| Commons about the possibility of Scotland in one of our machines | naming a new ship after Admiral [to perform an urgent operation. Blake has revived interest in the Such a case of air-taxis not only methods of naming ships of war. saves time, but also, in many There is no class at present to cases, is the means of saving hu- which the names of the great man fe. There is a growing de-seamen are given. The names of mand, too, for machines equipped Nelson and Rodney are borne by as flying ambulances, with spring-battleships, but no vessels of this mounted beds in their saloons on type have been put in hand since which invalids and sick people can 1822 nor can be under the Lon- make rapid. Journeys with a com- don Treaty until 1936. Post-War fort impossible by any other means. I cruisers were given the names of "Our Special-Charter Fecords counties or cathedral cities until show how frequently cases arise in 1936. but with the change to the which the time-factor is import-rew 6in. gun classes it' was decided ant. Here as an example, is the to name them from classical my-- instance of a French Judge who, thology, from which source some missing his train at Victoria, had the old ship names with Nelsonic to fly in one of our machines from associations can be drawn, such as Croydon in order to be in time for Achilles and Orion.
Court-Opening ceremony in France. Here, too, is the case of
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Plotilla leaders are named after
seamen, distinguished
such 15
a school-boy whose father charter- Kempenfelt, Exmouth, and Faulk-
an
ed an air-taxi for him so that hear. Even if it was desired to in- might dy from London to sit for-oduce Blake in this category, a examinationi down in the daculty arises because an al- country, connection having been phabetical sequence also obtains, alid the next leader and destroy- ers should have names beginning with the initial “G.” Submarines
AVIATION NEWS are named after rivers, in the case
New Mailplane Planned
of the large vessels, or fishes, in the smaller types. Bloops take the names of seaports, Buchi za Grimsby and Leith; or if fitted for ninesweeping the names of the old torpedo gunboats such 49 Halcyon.
VIZAGAPATAM HARBOUR
OPENED
Lord Willingdon Performs
Rapid transport of mails is pro- eminently the work of the flying machine. Its speed cannot be rivalled by any other vehicle, and many expect to see, the real be- ginning of British civil aerial ex- pansion when the Empire mails move everywhere by air. Special relays of mailplanes, flying night and day, can place Melbourne and
Madras, December 19. Sydney within less than seven days Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy, of London; replies to letters add- offelally opened the Vizagapatam ressed to Bouth Africa can be ex- Harbour on December 19 in the pected in less than a week.
afternoon in the presence of a dis- The Avro company was among | tinguished. gathering. the first to study the "production
Vizagapatam is the only impor of an seroplane designed solely tant port between Calcutta, and for the carriage of mails. In 1982 Madras, The scheme for the new the Avro "Mailplane in its or- harbour was initiated by the Ben- ginal form, powered with a Bidde- gal Nagpur Railway Company, but ley." Panther" 535 hp engine, In 1925 the Government of India made the fastest time on record declared Vizagapatam a major over the King's Cup course, aver port, and since then the work has aging 178 miles an hour.
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