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PASSENGERS LIGHTWEIGHT

ON EMPIRE AIR ROUTES

To anyone studying traffic pro- gress on Empire air-lines, it is always interesting to have a chat with those officials whose work brings them into daily contact with

sian Gulf. This has meant

STATIONERY FOR AIR-MAIL USE

Result Of Researches By British Paper- Making Firms

Among preparations in hand for

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CHINA MAIL, MAY 1, 1987.

EIGHT YEARS OF THE ENGLAND-INDIA SERVICE

"This is the real start of Empire air transport!' Such were the

on a March words used

morning eight years ago, when Sir Samuel Hoare then Air Minister watched

an air-liner ascend from the forthcoming carriage of first- From next month the K.L.M. Royal Croydon on the first outward flight class mails by air without

Dutch air service from Amsterdam of the service that was inaugurated the passengers who, at the present charge, one interesting task has to Java will be operated with big between London and Karachi. time, are entering and leaving Eng-been that of British paper-makers. Douglas D.C.3. aeroplanes all fitted The establishment of this 5,000 land by way of the long-distance

Their researches have been with automatic pilots, de-icers and miles England-India flying mail re- flying routes.

undertaken for the following rea- short-wave wireless sets, which will presented the first great milestone *Among features of our traffic on son.

When the 11⁄2d rate becomes allow the passengers to keep the India route just recently,' ex-applicable to first-class mails air-touch all the time with Amsterdam air transport. The 8-engined land- in in the development of inter-Imperial plains one of these experts, "has

borne by Empire services as it and Batavia. been the opening up of oil-produc-is at present to letters by surface

planes and flying boats first used on This announcement was made by the service were, as traffic grew, ing plants at Bahrein, on the Per- routes this 12d. rate

Mr. Albert Plesman, director of the replaced by larger for air

4-engined air- that transport will apply to letters service.

craft. officials and skilled workers have

Then, as traffic continued to weighing half an ounce. This being

He said that this summer there expand, been going out to Bahrein in appre-so, and to enable

.came extensions across business houses would be nine daily air services be- India to Calcutta, Rangoon, and ciable numbers by air, saving a and others to take full advantage of tween Amsterdam and London. very considerably amount of time the speed of air transport, it has

'Singapore; followed by the "estab- Passengers leaving Amsterdam in lishment, at the end of 1934, of a by so doing.

been the object of paper-making the morning will be able to spend service from England, via India, to 'A regular aspect of traffic on the firms to improve still further light-101⁄2 hours in London and return Australia. Imperial Airways Empire services weight forms of stationery for air-the same evening. The K.L.M. hopes. is the seasonal flow of Government mail use.

Other milestones of progress came to resume service on the line from with the decision to increase the officials coming home on leave from The aim has been to produce a

Amsterdam to Liverpool via Doncas- frequency of services from once- places along the India and Africa

ter this summer. paper as light as possible, com-

weekly to twice-weekly in each routes, and then returning again patible with sufficient strength, and

Mr. Plesman foresees practical direction. A twice-weekly' London- when their leave has expired. also with a texture enabling the

flights into the stratosphere--the Calcutta service was instituted in Nowadays many of them are taking

paper to be used either for type atmosphere from a height of about January, 1935. By September advantage of the inter-change ar-writing or for handwriting. At the six miles upwards-in another four the same year twice-weekly services rangements between air and sea same time it has been the ambition

years' time.

were in operation between London travel, coming home by ocean liner, to produce a paper which is satis-

As announced in the “China Mail" and Singapore; while by May, 1936, and returning by air-liner, or vice-factorily opaque.

on Thursday, the Java subsidiary it became possible to fly twice- of the K.L.M. will shortly open a weekly in The researches of a good many

each direction between 'At all times a definite proportion firms have produced admirable re-

service from the Netherlands East England and Australia. of passenger traffic on Empire air sults. A

Indies to Australia. number of light-weight routes is represented by tourists air-mail papers are now available. and pleasure passengers. Business Some are white. Others are colour- ITEMS OF INTEREST tions in Kathiwar... travellers, too, are always to be led to render them. more found in our Empire air-lines Though astonishingly thin managing directors, executive chiefs, light, these papers

'By air to Paris!' That is a sidering a project for carrying an sales' experts. Engineers fly to and way that gives them a remarkable more and more Easter holiday-folk. the North Pole, and then for pick-

slogan which, each year,

attracts expedition of scientists by air to from mining areas in Africa. The toughness. speed of our Empire services en-

This The question of extremely light

year the special Easter ar-ing them up and bring them back ables mining chiefs to fly to London envelopes has also

rangements been a special

on Imperial Airways by air as soon as they have com- for important meetings and confer-study; and the result at the present

routes included the scheduling of pleted a programme of special in- ences and then, if necessary, return time is that a letter can contain as

six special services to Paris.

vestigations. immediately to the mines.

as, say, eight typewritten for the operation, as soon as certain ed

Arrangements have been many

made New air-lines expected to be open- 'An increasing number of chil-quarto-sheets; and yet this

in Russia shortly eight-ground organisation is completed, Moscow-Leningrad

Include dren make trips along Empire air-page letter, even when the weight of regular air services between Bom-Taskhent

and Moscow- lines. Some of them fly with of its envelope is added, comes within bay

services, also a seaplane parents or guardians. Others travel the stipulated half-ounce.

and Poona, and Bombay, route between Odessa and Betum. alone in the care of Imperial Air-

versa.

opaque.

and are made in a

ways, being in the charge of our throughout the whole of their flying flying staffs while machines are in journeys. They are found to make the air, and being looked after by ideal air travellers, and are of members of our ground organisa-course the subject of special atten- tion at the various halting-points. tion from adult members of the Children receive individual care travelling party.'

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