CIVIL AVIATION
BRITISH SUBSIDY DEBATE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS British Wireless. Rugby, May 14. The House of Commons last night passed the second reading of a Bill authorising the Air Ministry to subsidise civil aviation on long-term agreements to the extent of one million pounds yearly for ten years. The Government’s policy was endorsed by the former Air Minister (Sir Samuel Hoare), but he suggested that some of the money should be devoted to an experimental mail service with small machines travelling at 150 miles an hour over stages of about seven hundred miles and flying by night. He suggested experiments to see if it would not be possible to unite an air taxi service between London and ports by the use of an Autogiro machine, and he thought the Charing Cross Bridge scheme offered possibilities for establishing a centre in the heart of London for these air taxis. The Under-Secretary for Air (Mr. F. Montague) declined to enter into a general discussion on the civil aviation prospect. He said that the question of an air service in the West Indies was being investigated. Regarding airships, the next stage must be to discover the extent to which long-distance flights could be made to scheduled time.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 196, 16 May 1930, Page 9
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