MAIL AIRSHIPS
INTERESTING PARTICULARS
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, July 22
The Burney airships, to be employed in the services to India and Australia, are huge machines of a new pattern, capable of carrying a hundred and fifty passengers at an average speed of eighty miles. They will be able to make continuous flights of more than live days. The first machine should be built within eight months.
The first stage will be to India, bringing it within sixty-eight hours of London, shortening the delivery of the Australian mails by ten days. Egypt will be reached in thirty-one hours. The machines will have a capacity of five million cubic feet, and a length of 760 ft and single berth sleeping cabins for all passengers, each with separate entrance from the keel gangway. The saloon will accommodate sixty, and the dining room half the complement.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1923, Page 5
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