BRITISH AIR SERVICES
Growth in Daily Mileage (Rec. April 14, 5.5 p.m.) Official Wireless. Rugby. April 13. During the past seven years the air liners of the Imperial Airways fleet operating between London and the Continent and on Empire air routes have flown 8.710,000 miles, carrying 210,000 passengers and approximately 8000 tons of freight and mails. The big triple-engined Armstrong Siddeley air liners on the London-Continental services have now flown, more than 2,000.000 miles without any mishap resulting in injury to either passengers or crew. In 10:19. when British commercial nir services began, the daily mileage was less than 500. while now Imperial Airways liners and flying-boats cover xnore than 5000 miles every day. - %
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 171, 15 April 1932, Page 11
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