SWEDISH AIR MAIL
The Swedish night air-mail service (recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. It was organised and started by the Swedish Post Office and the Swedish Aerotransport Company in cooperation in 1928, during which a number of very successful flights were made at night between Stockholm and London. Since then this service has been constantly extended so that at present practically all first?class mail to and from Scandinavia is forwarded by plane. During the first year the Swedish night air-mail machine covered 7456 kilometres and transported 535 kilogrammes of post—42, 800 letters. The corresponding figures for 1938 were:—soo,ooo flying kilometres, and 474,500 kilogrammes of post, or about 38,000,000 letters. Day and night airmail services from and to Sweden forwarded 16,000 kilogrammes during 1928, whilst in the past year they transported about 724,000 kilogrammes, and during the Christmas week alone no loss than 21,000 kilogrammes of mail, corresponding to 1,700,000 letters, were transported.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 12
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152SWEDISH AIR MAIL Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 12
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