TRANSATLANTIC AIR RECORD
3500 MILES IN NINE HOURS 21 MINUTES
,R «- s P.m.) LONDON, November 5. fin,. . Pan American clipper MayWer to-day beat the trans-Atlantic 2n Irom New York to London by xr Utes - Carrying 45 passengers. Mayflower completed the 3500trip in nine hours 21 minptes, waging 381 miles an hour.
Ataory to British Labour Party.— Kn. i/° ur Party to-day won the Kensington by-election for the , ndon County Council. This gives dl a+ a m; ‘.i° r ity of two on the counIftur d the elections in April the LaWe rty snc * Conservatives each jj l 64 seats. The Labour majority to--1097 votes. The vacancy was -ea by the death of the Conservaw'ho won the seat in London, November 4.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25954, 7 November 1949, Page 7
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