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A WONDERFUL RECORD
(British Official Wireless.) ■ • ! LONDON, 12th January. • _A fleet of four Hanley-Page type 42 biplanes, the largest air liners yet commissioned' by any transport company, have established a record in regular day-by-day operation, in the cross-Ctian-lel service of Imperial Airways. Throughout the winter and summer months these giant craft, each driven by four 550 horse-power Jupiter aircooled motors, make the London-Paris journey with clockwork precision. The four aeroplanes have between them flown the equivalent of 400^000 miles and have carried altogether 47,300 passengers. During the summer months each machine carried a daily average of 55 passengers. . .. ,-.....,.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 11
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