AIR LINER
BRITAIN TO THE FORE. A HUGE AIRSHIP. FOR. WEEK-ENDERS. [While millions of Germans were crowing over the fact that a Zeppelin had left Germany for America, and was the greatest -and latest of air liners, British workmen were, quietly and without any fuss, constructing an air liner twice its size, which will enable Londoners to spend the week-end in New York.] BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Nov. 7, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 6. Vickers are constructing an airship of five million cubic feet and more than twice as large as ZR3 (the German Zeppelin) for the British Government. It is expected that the airship will, journey to' the United States in two days and return even quicker, enabling people to spend the week-end in New York. Vickers propose to manufacture the parts at their works and assemble them at two great sheds at Howden. Yorkshire.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 November 1924, Page 5
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146AIR LINER Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 November 1924, Page 5
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