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substantial complement of passengers. The connection with Hong Kong would be completed by existing sea
services, unless it should prove possible to establish a
feeder air service from Bangkok to Hong Kong. The
financial arrangements for such a feeder service would,
however, be outside the scope of the present scheme and
I will address you separately on this question.
The normal cruising speed of the aircraft employed
on the trunk services would be 150 miles per hour, but
with considerable extensions of night flying facilities
the journey schedules should progressively fall to about
42 days as between London and Singapore with proportionate
savings in the journey to Hong Kong.
30 It will be seen that the scheme would provide
Malay States) for a minimum frequency of services between London and
Settlements
Singapore of three per week, of which two would be through
flying boat services to Australia and the third would be
either a land-plane or a flying-boat service terminating
at Singapore. There would also be a corresponding
frequency of services in the reverse direction. These
services would be operated via Karachi, Calcutta, Rangoon
and Bangkok to Penang and Singapore, with large machines
capable of meeting the full mail requirements and also
of carrying a substantial complement of passengers.
The normal cruising speed of these aircraft would be
130 miles per hour, but with considerable extensions of
night flying facilities the journey schedules should
progressively fall to about 4 days as between London
and Singapore.
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