HEAVYWEIGHT CROONERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 8

HEAVYWEIGHT CROONERS

TOO HEAVY FOR AEROPLANE 3 SISTERS MUST TAKE 6 SEATS I B.v Air Mail—Suecial Corresrciiclenfl LONDON, 7th January. I Three sisters booked seats by tele- : phone this week on an Air France ! aeroplane from Croydon to Paris. On j their arrival at the airport they were I told they could not be accepted because jof their weight. They were the Peters sisters, coloured heavyweight crooners from America. “I had no idea when they booked their seats who they were,” said an Air France official. “We weighed them and they got on 1 the aeroplane, but we found that if they travelled we should not be able to carry some of our other passengers as the total weight of the plane would then exceed the safety margin. “So we had to tell them that if they wished they could book two seats each for the next day.” The weight of the average passenger is 80 kilos, and each one is allowed 15 kilos baggage. The three sisters—Mattie. Annie and 1 Virginia, aged 21, 18 and 16 respectively were amused rather than annoyed by the rejection. j “Sure we weigh 65 stone between us.” said Mattie, “but just because an j air company won’t carry us to-day we [ aren’t going to diet. i “You should have seen us being, | weighed. The officials were so polite, but they were just lost for words. They did not want to comment on our, weight—they were such perfect Eng- j lish gentlemen.