SPEEDY AIR FLEET
Planes for Empire Routes (Received Jan. 6, 5.5 p.m.) Official Wireless Rugby, Jan. 5. The first machine of a new fleet of eight, four-engined passenger monoplanes for service on the Empire air routes of the Imperial Airways left Croydon to-day for Cape Town. It has a top speed of 150 miles an hour, and Is equipped for tropical and semitropical climates. Other machines will leave at short Intervals to take up stations at various points along the routes. When all are in service, the whole of the 12.000 miles of Imperial Airways’ Epipire routes will have been completely equipped.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 88, 7 January 1933, Page 11
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102SPEEDY AIR FLEET Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 88, 7 January 1933, Page 11
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