OFF TO CAPE TOWN
ATTEMPT AT RECORD
GLEN KIDSTON'S IDEA
(fieeeived Ist April, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 31st March. The millionaire sportsman, Commander Glen Kidston, and two companions left Nethcravon in a high-speed American mail-carrying mouoplaue,hoping to reach Capo Town in six days. Kidston's object is to show up the comparative slowness of British air mails with the idea of trying to convince the Post Office and the Air Ministry of the practicability of getting letters to Australia in eight days.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 11
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80OFF TO CAPE TOWN Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 11
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