OFFICES IN TEE AIR
Commercial aviation is developing: rapidly, andi tho latest advance is in tho form of offices in tho dry. . .... An order has been received by ono of the loading aircraft construction companies, anal is now being executed at the works in tho West of England, for a huge “ office ’ aeroplane, complete with desks, typewriter, accommodation for hooks and those other hundred and one things that are common to tha city office. ~ . - This machine is for tho use of. a very wealthy financier, who Iras to travel a good! deal between London and the 'Continental capitals, feelago w jji p a divided into two compartments, and will enable. the hustling captain of industry, accompanied by Jus secretary or stenographer to carrv mi hrs business when travelling through the air at a speed at least double that of the fastest express train. , . , . A wireless telephone instalment is to form part of the office equipment, so that calla to .anywhere may bo put through or reocivcd* It is hoped to make tho use of the “ office” by business men. much more general, and plans ato being drawn up of a. monoplane, suitably equipped, which, it is estimated, will cost less to run than a limousiuo car.
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Evening Star, Issue 18121, 10 November 1922, Page 9
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206OFFICES IN TEE AIR Evening Star, Issue 18121, 10 November 1922, Page 9
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