ANOTHER AVIATION DEVELOPMENT
> RAILWAY COMPANIES INTERESTED (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, November 2. Still another development iu aviation is foreshadowed by the statement that the railway companies will shortly apply to Parliament for powers to carry on air transport. Conferences are being held to consider the matter. It is understood that the companies wisli to speed up the delivery of produce for the London markets, and for tlie moment tlie question of passenger services is not important. A railway official said: “We have powers over railways, roads, canals, and seas: it is logical that, should circumstances make it dbsirable, we should also take to the air.” An official of the London and North-Eastern Railway said that tliis company would like an extension from various ports.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 35, 5 November 1928, Page 10
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124ANOTHER AVIATION DEVELOPMENT Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 35, 5 November 1928, Page 10
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