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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS ROUTE. NEW MACHINE LEAVES CROYDON (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 6. The first machine of a new fleet of eight four-engined' passenger monoplanes for service on Empire air routes of the Imperial Airways, left Croydon to-day 'for Capetown, it lias a top speed of 150 miles an hour, and is equipped for tropical anj semi-tropical climates. Other machines will leave at short intervals to take up stations at various points , along the routes. When all are in service, the whole of the 12,000 miles of the Imperial Airways’ Empire routes will have been completely equipped.
ENGINES ORDERED IN BRITAIN. RUGBY, January 5. The Netherlands Government has ordered from the Rolls-Royce Company a considerable number of their 500/600 li.p. Kestrel engines for fitting into Dutch aeroplanes. Kestrel engines are also being. supplied to Belgium, Jugoslavia, Esthonia, Russia, Japan and other countries.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1933, Page 5
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