AIR LINERS MAY OUST SHIPS
POST-WAR PROBLEM
LONDON. March 2. British shipowners view with alarm the competition passenger liners may have to face from air transport after the war. They are now discussing this problem with the Minister of War Transport, Lord Leathers.
This was revealed yesterday oy Mr, Philip Runciman, after his election in London as new president of the Chamber of Shipping. “Hardly any forecast of air transport after this war,” he said, “can be ruled out as too fantastic, and this has a great bearing of the future of many passenger lines.” Shipowners wanted to know whether civil aviation was to be Government controlled or whether shipping companies would be granted licences for the protection of their passenger trade*. “If British airways,” lie said, “are to be in competition with British passenger shipping companies there will be no inducement to build new ships.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1942, Page 2
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