NEW EMPIRE FLYING-BOATS
"PURSER” FOR THE PLANES (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 24th November. When the big Empire" flying-boats now under construction take over the operation of mail routes next year each boat will have a “flight clerk” in its crew. His duties will be similar to those of the purser on board ship. The magnitude of the carrying task which will fall on Imperial Airways when all Empire mails go by air will represent 1650 tons of mail yearly. About 10 tons, representing nearly 2,000,000 letters, will be leaving England by air weekly.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 7
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93NEW EMPIRE FLYING-BOATS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 7
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