BRITAIN’S BIGGEST AIRLINER
Flight To Coventry For Tests FIRST OF 14 GIANT CRAFT 'British Official Wireless.) (Received January 27, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, January 26. Britain’s biggest airliner, the Ensign, was flown to Coventry to-day for full-load tests, after the completion of which, in about two months’ time, she will be handed to the Air Ministry experts for test before going into commission on Empire air routes. She is the first of 14 giant air-liners under construction by Armstrong, Whitworth, some of which will go into service on Empire routes and others on Imperial Airways European routes. The European machines have four saloons (one of them a card-room), ami the Empire craft, which must carry big mail loads, have three saloons with places for 27 travellers by day and sleeping-berths for 20 by night. These 14 monoplanes represent a capital investment. Imperial Airways state, of approximately £750,000.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 11
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