BRITISH AIR MAIL TO CANADA

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22183, 28 August 1937, Page 15

BRITISH AIR MAIL TO CANADA

♦ Unlikely Before 1939 MUCH WORK STILL TO BE DONE (TJjnTID PEBSS ASSOCIATIOH —COPTKIOHT.) (Received August 27, 9.4 p.m.) QUEBEC, August 26. Interviewed on his arrival from England, Sir Thomas Gardiner (Director-General of the Post Office) said that a regular air mail between Britain and Canada was unlikely before 1939. The test flights up to the present had been most successful, but much exploration work re-* mained to be done. ANOTHER ATLANTIC TEST FLIGHT IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LINER LEAVES IRELAND (Received August 27, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 27. The Imperial Airways flying-boat Cambria left Foynes for Botwood, Newfoundland, at 5.39 a.m. This is the liner's second east-to-west Atlantic flight. Like the Caledonia, she has already made a double crossing. CALEDONIA TO FLY ROUND BRITAIN SHOWING HUGE FLYING-BOAT TO PUBLIC (BEITISH OFFICIAL WIEELESS.) RUGBY, August 26. By arrangements with the Minister for Air (Lord Swintori), Imperial Airways will use one of the test flights of the long-range flyingboat Caledonia for showing the machine to the public in a circular tour of the British coast. The tour will begin next Monday and will last for three days. Starting from Southampton, the Caledonia will pass along the coast in an easterly direction, and will circle over as many of the principal watering places as possible. In all, 66 towns will be visited, and the tour will extend as far north as Edinburgh and Glasgow, which will be reached on the second day. The tour will then continue down the west coast, past Welsh seaside resorts, and as far as Pembroke. On the third day the flying-boat will complete the journey along the coast line round Land's End and so back to Southampton.