AVIATION ASPECTS
EMPIRE MAIL DELAY. IMPROVEMENT OF AERODROMES, • MONEY MADE AVAILABLE. (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 20. A message from Darwin states that the Imperial Airways mail aeroplane Athena took off from there at 7 a.m. yesterday for Koepang, Timor Island. She was 24 hours behind time with the Empire mails, owing to have been bogged at the aerodrome. i The Minister of Defence, Mr R. A. Parkhill, announces that a sum of £35,000 has been made available by the Commonwealth Government for the improvements of aerodromes and airways on the Australian portion of the England-Australia air service. Of that amount £SOOO will bo spent on the aerodrome and £2500 on the one at Mascot.
SPEEDIER SERVICE. LONDON AND PARIS. TEN TRIPS DAILY PLANNED. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. Mr Anthony Fokker, aeroplane designer and manufacturer, and Mr K. D. Parmentier, arrived in England in a Douglas air liner of the type the latter piloted in the race to Melbourne, The object of the visitors, is to demonstrate the possibility of an hourly service between Gatwick, Surrey, and Le Bourget, enabling a passenger to complete the journey from the centre of London to the centre of Paris in 2 hours 20 minutes.
A new company, the, London and Continental Air Lines, is planning to start this service in the summer with four Douglas machines fitted with British engines. They will make ten trips each way daily.
WIDER INSURANCE. FIRM WITH £5,000,000 CAPITAL. IBritish Official Wireless.] (Received 9 a.m.) RUGBY, January 19. A company which will specialise in aviation risks, the Aviation and General Insurance Company, Ltd., has been formed by the 12 leading British insurance companies and two firms of brokers, with a capital of £5,000,000. The scheme is an indication of the growing importance of the aviation industry and the determination of British insurance companies to maintain the position of London as the leading market for the insurance of various risks associated with civil aviation.
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Northern Advocate, 21 January 1935, Page 7
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