THE AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
BIG BOOM IN BRITAIN LONDON, August 24. (Receded August 25, at 10 p.m.) The Sunday Times says: “ The British aircraft industry is enjoying the biggest boom in history. Statistics issued to-day revealed that the passenger and freight traffic of Imperial Airways increased 50 per cent, in the first three months of 1935, and mails doubled. The value of aircraft exports was the highesi recorded. Croydon is congested with air traffic, 200 aeroplanes arriving and departing in a single day. It is increasingly difficult to find sufficient qualified pilots to cope with the expanding traffic.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22659, 26 August 1935, Page 10
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