London to Cape in Eleven Days
GREAT AERIAL ENTERPRISE
British Official Wireless. Received Thursday, 7.0 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 17. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. Montague (Undersecretary for Air) stated that negotiations had been completed for a regular air mail route from Cairo to the Cape, and the northern section would probably begin to operate in February. The Cairo-Cape airway is heralded in commercial air circles as an outstanding enterprise. Linking with the Indian air mail service, it will reduce the transit time between London and Capetown to eleven days. The ground organisation along the route, measuring 5700 miles, involves the establishment of 27 air stations, with hangars, wireless and weather offices, staff quarters and, in some cases, hotels. In addition, 30 intermediate landing grounds are being developed rapidly.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7411, 19 December 1930, Page 7
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