DEVELOPMENT OF AVIATION

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21987, 11 January 1937, Page 8

DEVELOPMENT OF AVIATION

Progress in Soutti jl Westland /*;; CARRIAGE OF MAILS AKT FREIGHT v $ : : The. development of coifiiaefaa aviationin, the iSouth Westland $£ trie* is strikingly illustrated^'Che returns of Air Travel (N.&), tlj In practically all branches of jfc business the company made neSMfe-' cords during December, and-a~eom- : parison with the returns forlfe show how rapidly the carriage* of mails, passengers, and freight increased in the last 12 monthly In 1935 the company carried 33Q, passengers in its machines, wh%,& the month of December alonfe iaf" i93f>, 522 passengers were carried, The total number of rtect ih 1936 was 2972. Similar pft. gress was shown in the carriage d mails. From 4751b of mails caffied in the first month of 1935, the 6uaness of the company had grown ta such proportions in 1936 that $e total weight of mail carried-in-De-, cember was 54441b. The anhual figures for 1935 and 1936 were 94211b and 36>8691b respectively. Last year. the company carried 12,7261b of 'goods, compared with 64501b in the". previous year. . ";- .-. The following table shows the returns of mail, passengers, goods, and' flying time for the two years 1935 and 1936, as well as the figures for December, 1936: — _, 1935. 1936.' Wi. Number of flights 837 2.541 347 Hours flying time 413 1,240 "-38 No. of passengers .' 580 2,972 52 Pounds of. mail ~ 9,421 36,869 5.«t PoUnds Of freight 6,450 • 12,726 -1,458.