CO129-550-3 Empire Air Mail Services- cost of participation to be exempted from assessment for military contributions... 19-10-1934 - 17-1-1935 — Page 24

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(To Straits

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.

(To Kenya, Uganda

and Tanganyika