LUXURY ’PLANES
CROYDON-GAPE TOWN SERVICE. LONDON, October 9. Three of the fleet of eight monoplanes—the first monoplanes to be used by Imperial Airways—have been delivered at the London air port for scrvic*. on the Croydon-Cape Town route. They are known as the Atalanta class, and have been specially designed for flying in the tropics by the Arm-strong-Whitworth Aircraft Company. Each has four double Armstrong-Sidde-ley Mongoose engines, and is capable of flying 150 miles an hour. Tjhe monoplanes are luxuriously equipped, and it is expected that the whole fleet will be in service by the nd of the year. A weekly air mail service has been established Broken Hill Northern Rhodesia) * and Elizabethville (Belgian Congo), connecting with, the English-South African Air mail which leaves Croydon every Wednesday.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1932, Page 7
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