NEW AIRSHIP SERVICE
-SEVILLE TO THE ARGENTINE. (Received 19th November, 2.15 p.m.) MADRID, 18th November. The Ministry has approved the creation of a company to conduct a weekly airship service to the Argentine from Seville, where an Siirport will bo created at a cost of £1,250,000. Three airships will be purchased, and will cost £800,000 apiece, and cftrry 40 passengers, "40 crew, and sixteen tons of baggage;' The Government voted £22,000, and "agreed to subsidise the service, at a maximum of £240,000 annually for five years, after which the air port becomes the Government's property.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1926, Page 11
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95NEW AIRSHIP SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1926, Page 11
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