BRITISH AIR LINES.
COMPETITION BY FOREIGNERS. United Press Association— Copyright! (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 11. The aeronautical correspondent of “The Times” says that the Air Ministry has approved of negotiations supply of a number of Lockheed Electra air liners for the mail service between London and Sweden, for which British Airways have received a subsidy of £20,000 per annum. Hitherto it has been obligatory to use only British aircraft on subsidised routes. The decision, which is serious, is due firstly to the fact that British manufacturers could not supply for _ many months the 20-seater ’planes stipulated in the subsidy agreement, and secondly to the Air Ministers recent order for D.H. 86 ’planes on which the company intended to rely. In the meantime the company must not Hy ’planes at night. The Lockheed ’planes are promised for delivery in four months, whereas suitable British ’planes were not available for nine months.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 28, 12 November 1936, Page 5
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