BRITISH AIR LINES
3 P.M- EDITION
SAFETY AND PUNCTUALITY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 19, 12.00 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 18. “There is no technical reason why air mails should not be delivered in India in thirty or forty hours, 6aid Sir Samuel Hoare during the course of a speech he delivered at Ashbridge. “Air Force machines move at 180 miles an hour. There is no reason why similar machines should not be iised for mails, instead of omnibus machines which, in addition to mails, carry passengers and freight, which are obliged to stop every -300 miles. Up to the present time the British Post Office has shown itself the blackest reactionary in all matters in connection with the air. It has even refused an air stamp. No civil air service in the world is yet self-supporting. Obr Continential rivals are receiving seventy per cent, of the "total cost in Government subsidies. The British air lines are nearer to becoming self-supporting than those in the United States, Germany and Italy, and Britain has an unbeaten record for safety arid punctuality.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 252, 19 September 1930, Page 8
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