MAILS BY AIR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 4

MAILS BY AIR

BRITISH ELANS FOR REGULAR SERVICE

Lord Thomson, the former Air Mi.nisler, recently returned to England from a three months’ visit to America. He was enthusiastic at tlio prospect of developments in aviation, says an English newspaper. “I believe,” ho said, “that if wo develop tlio East right down to Australia, and New Zealand, through Egypt, and India, and with the help of America, cross the Atlantic by means of a irships, wo can put a girdle of our transport round the world. It is most important that tho English-speaking pcoplo should reeogniso their strong position for establishing world communication by air,” lie said.

Lord Thomson has been examining the American air mail systems which operate from New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. They arc, in his opinion, working exceptionally well. lio has foreshadowed a development that has been in tlio minds of aviation experts on both sides of tlio Atlantic for a considerable time. It is probable that private enterprise in Britain will soon announce definite plans for the creation of a regular air-mail service to the U.S.A., whilo the U.S. Naval authorities are to make an airship crossing of tho Atlantic this summer to test the practicability of such a service.