BRITAIN'S REPLY
HUGE FLYING BOAT BUILT LONDON, 19th November. The huge flying boat which the Viewers Super-mai'ine works are building >s described by the "N.ews-Chromcle as Britain's challenge to the German Dornier Do.X. The paper says it will be used in the trans-Atlantic Anglo-Ame-rica': mail service, which Mr. Olover, an American postal official, announces has been settled. , The hull of the machine is IS left high, and 100 feet long, and it has accommodation for 40 passenger's, "has five cabins and 20 sleeping berths. 'I here are six Rolls-Rovre engines, with a horse-power of 37C0. It is estimated that it will attain a speed of more than 150 miles an hour.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 December 1930, Page 5
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