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COST OE AIRSHIPS. (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, November 29. In a luncheon address during an inspection of Airship R.lOO, the builder, Sir C. D. Burney, said that at that moment she was lifting fuel. She had cost £450,000, to which the Government had contributed £300,000. The Airship Guarantee Company had also spent £55,000 in capital. That construction amounted to a heavy contribution towards aeronautical development. The Government could not expect engineering firms to make such contributions in future. For example Vickers had announced they did not intend to undertake another similar contract. He considered that the Goventment’s best course would be to lay down a five years’ programme, entailing three millions sterling. If so, anairship of real commercial value could be built.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1929, Page 7
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