TASMAN SERVICE
BRITISH PLANES POSSIBLE.
KINGSFORD SMITH’S INQUIRIES
(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 30.
Mr B. Sheil informed the “ SunHerald” that the proposed Austra-lian-New Zealand air service may yet be operated with British flying-boats. “We are not committed to Sikorskys,” said Mr Sheil. “I 'am making a complete survey of the British flying boat manufactories. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and I spent the whole day at the Wolseley factory in Birmingham yesterday. I will probably return to Australia, via America, conferring with the Sikorsky manufacturers. I expect the ’planes will cost £IOO,OOO. . . ’
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 16, 31 October 1935, Page 5
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