COLOSSAL AIR LINER

Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 6

COLOSSAL AIR LINER

BRITAIN'S LATEST LIKE A FOUR-STORY HOTEL ’for transatlantic service. I’rcss Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, November 25. (Received November 2b, at 10 a.m.) Sucl) has been the pi-ogress with the Air Ministry’s 11100 at a lonely workshop at East Yorkshire Plain that it will be ready for trials in four months. It is the largest' and most powerful in the rvorld. It is twice the size of the biggest Zeppelin. 'The first public glimpse disclosed a colossal 1 runic work 700 ft by 130 ft in diameter, and into this has been built an amazing fourstory hotel. A gangway from the mooring mast leads to a brilliantly-lighted saloon 110 ft wide. Ranged on three sides of this are the crow’s sleeping quarters, while immediately underneath is what might bo called the ground lloor, consisting ol the control and navigating rooms. A wide staircase communicates with the next deck, containing a dining room for fifty persons and a kitchen fitted with an electric stove. From here two four-berth cabins open out. The third, or promenade deck, is glassed in, and has a 4311 by 1411 resilient dancing lloor, music being picked up by wireless. The promenade deck can comfortably accommodate 100 people. The top story consists of the remaining berths and a lounge, from which the passengers can look into the dining room and the ballroom below. Electric radiators and lans are everywhere.

Tho ship will bo driven by i,200 horse-power, and is provided with six Rolls-Royce-Condor engines. There will bo thirty-five petrol tanks, each holding a ton of petrol. Its top speed will bo eighty-five miles an hour. The weight, with passengers, will bo 150 tons. The cost is £450,U00.

It is anticipated that the transatlantic fare will bo £IOO for the trip occupying forty-eight hours. A sister-ship, the 11101, is being built at Cardigan, and is nearing the same stage of completion.