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Dunstan Times, Issue 3149, 25 December 1922, Page 2

To say that the City of London was probably the safest place lor pedesIrians might {five rise to a Innoli. says :i London paper, lint the spokesman would hr right. Last voir only ton Lata I aeeidenis were reported in the city. in spite of the reeord-nialoop; (ra.flic (hat passed through its streets. Xon-latal accidents totalled 70(j. or practically iwo per day. In (treater London, i.e.. the Metropolitan Police Districi. the respective figures were 71 and 2:'.(i17. Shall we say that the more crowded the tea Hie. the safer is one’s person ? An air liner working on the same principle liy which a tlrning-rooiw table is expanded is the latest invention of Anthony !(. (L Kokker lor eommercial t ravel. lie promises to use it in Ihe cross Channel service next year. The machine, he says, will he made like an ordinary monoplane for carry ini; six persons. It more want to travel a small lower plane will he added. If a double load is to lie carried a lower plane nearly as large as the original one will he added, thereby making it a biplane. Kokker says that the arrangement is just as simple as hitching on inure coaches to a railway I rain.