ATLANTIC MAIL HUSTLE

Evening Star, Issue 20312, 22 October 1929, Page 11

ATLANTIC MAIL HUSTLE

AEROPLANE FROM IRELAND Important experiments in the speed-ing-up of mails from America to Loudon were carried out with success when letters landed- by motoi launch from the German liner Karlsruhe at Galway were rushed to Croydon by aeroplane in four hours. Colonel Bussell, late chief of the Irish Free State Air Force, who was in charge of the test, estimates the saving of time over train and steamer transport at thirtysix hours. ... nnn The mail bag, containing o,WU letters and weighing 1001 b, was taken by motor car irom Galway Docks to Oranmore Aerodrome, where a Vickers machine waited. Colonel Russell new in the aeroplane, and the journey to London, a distance of oOOmiles, via Liverpool, was covered in fom hours, the aeroplane landing at Croydon at 11.30, less than five hours after the arrival of the Karlsruhe at Galway. “An air mail between Galway and London has become almost necessary, for the number of liners arriving at Galway is steadily increasing, declared Colonel Russell. _ “ Galway is a natural port for Atlantic liners, and as fast ships could cross from there to Halifax, Nova Scotia in three days, air mail links at either end would bring many of the big American and Canadian cities within four day- of London.”