WONDER AIR LINER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12735, 16 December 1935, Page 3

WONDER AIR LINER

NEW GERMAN MACHINE. I i I i Though tho name of Germany’s J new airship, the L.Z.1‘29, is still an ; official secret, she is likely to be called : the “Adolf Hitler.” The engineers | have tried to make the comfort of the | air traveller almost as great as that | of the passenger in a small liner. There is accommodation for 50 passengers—2s small cabins each containing two bunks, supplied with hot and cold water and centrally heated. On the port side is a spacious and lofty dining-room with slanting windows of safety glass, through which' the diners can watch the landscape below. On the other side of the ship is a comfortable lounge and a small library and writing-room. In tho centre there is a cocktail bar at the entrance to the first smoking-room ever built into an airship (says the Berlin correspondent of the “NewsChroncilo”). The passengers are not allowed to smoke in any other part of the ship, and in this small smokingroom, the walls of which are of special fireproof material, tobacco and matches are retained in compartments with the owner’s name or number. Outside the smoking-room an attendant will ho on guard to see that no one passes out with a lighted cigarette, pipe or cigar. The electric kitchen is of the most modern type. The passenger section is arranged in two decks and there is a gangway and a broad staircase for the passage from one dock to another. For short cruises, in addition to the crew of 35 which is to be accommodated on the lower deck amidships, the number of passengers can be increased to 100.