AIR CIRCUS BANNED.
LACKS "DIGNITY." LEICESTER AND COBHAM. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, September 14. Sir Alan Cobham, first of Britain's air showmen, has been banned with his flying circus from the municipal airport he himself organised. Leicester Corporation has decided that it does not want Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day performance to be given at their airport. The circus was scheduled to appear at the airport on September 29, when the Leicester Aero Club are staging their annual "At Home." But this week Leicester City Council's parliamentary and general purposes committee agreed to ban Sir Alan s show. The council regarded the air circus as not quite the thing for the corporation's aerodrome. Alderman W. E. Wilford, chairman of the committee, in support of the decision, said: "We want to maintain the dignity of the airport and keep it purely as a commercial aerodrome." -
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 238, 8 October 1935, Page 5
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AIR CIRCUS BANNED.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 238, 8 October 1935, Page 5
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