EMPIRE SERVICES
BRITISH AVIATION. GIGANTIC AIRSHIPS FOR LONDON TO INDIA ROUTE. ■ r , BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. OTTAWA, March 23. A scheme for gigantic airships with lines encircling the globe, and with fast service - ’planes feeding them, was outlined by Air Vice-Marshal Sir Seffcon Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation to the British Air Ministry, in an address to\the Empire Club, Toronto.
He declared that Britain was developing two gigantic airships, with a capacity of five million cubic feet, for a service between India and London, which would eventually include Australia. This, in turn, would bring Canada within twenty-five or thirty .hours' of England. The new ships would carry one hun_ dred passengers.
IMPROVEMENTS TO' OOiMMUNICAi TTONS.
LONDON, March 22. A meeting .of the Imperial Communications Committee of the British Empire League in the House of Com,mons resolved to urge that immediate steps be taken to prepare schemas to be submitted to the Imperial Conference with a view to linking up all parts of the Empire by airship, aero-, plane, and seaplane, the early return to penny postage throughout the Empire, and the establishment of wireless stations in the smaller and more isolated communities of the Empire with a view to linking up the main stations of the Empire. ,
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 March 1926, Page 5
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206EMPIRE SERVICES Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 March 1926, Page 5
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