“BIGGEST BOOM IN HISTORY”
BRITISH AVIATION INDUSTRY. CROYDON TRAFFIC CONGESTION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Aug. 24. The British aircraft industry is enjoying the biggest boom in history, says the “Sunday Times.”; Statistics issued to-day revealed that passenger and freight traffic by Imperial Airways increased by 50 per cent, in the first three months of 1935. Mails also doubled . . The value of aircraft exports is the highest recorded. _ . Croydon is congested with air traffic. Two hundred, aeroplanes arrived and departed in a single day. It is increasingly difficult to find sufficient qualified pilots to cope with expanding traffic.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 26 August 1935, Page 5
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