AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION
THE FINANCIAL ASPECT Brass Aaocmion—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 29. In an address during an inspection of JRIOO the builder (Sir C. D. Burney) said that at that moment she was lifting 100 guests and 30 tons of fuel. The cost was £450,000. to which the Government had contributed £300,000. The Guarantee Company also spent £55,000, _ which amounted to a heavy towards aeronautic development. The Government could not expect engineering firms to make such contributions in future. For example, Vickers announced that they did not intend to undertake another similar contract. He considered that the Government’s best course would be to My down a five-year programme entailing £3,000.000. If so, airships of real commercial value could be built.
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Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 15
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119AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 15
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