AIR-MAIL SERVICE
North Atlantic Flights On Saturday <British Oflicial Wireless.) (Received August 2, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 1. The Caribou, one of the flying-boats specially built for the North Atlantic airmail service, will make the first flight to Botwood (Newfoundland), Montreal and New York on Saturday. The Cabot, which is not yet quite ready for the service, will carry mails across the North Atlantic on the following Saturday. The weekly service will be continued till the end of September. Two Harrow bombers left for Eoynes (Ireland) yesterday. They have been converted into tankers and will refuel the North Atlantic flying-boats in midair. Two other tankers are already in Botwood, where the flying-boats will be refuelled for their return journeys.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 262, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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119AIR-MAIL SERVICE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 262, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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