MODERN TRAVEL
PYRAMIDS TO CHARING CROSS. It is possible now for a man to be at Charing Cross, London, and see the Great Pyramid in the same day. j Last month a passenger flying-boat! made its first journey from Egypt to ! Croydon in 15 flying hours. I The 18-ton Cassiopeia left Alexan- I dria with 14 passengers and one and a-half tons of mail at 2.40 a.m. and ' after stopping at Athens, Brindisi, Rome, Marseilles and Southampton, completed her journey of 2300 miles at 8.20 p.m. | Her average speed was 150 miles an ' hour, and she was flying for 15 hours. With the journey speeded up to this 1 extent it will be possible for travellers ! to view the pyramids by moonlight and > to go to bed in London before mid- I night.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2667, 8 September 1937, Page 8
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