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TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE LONDON-MONTREAL ROUTE / MONTREAL, June 16 (Received June 17, at 10 p.m.) Canadian and British experts, addressing the Canadian Engineering Institute, stated that Canada would cwn 24 per cent, of the transAtlantic air service, for which experimental flights would be begun on June 24. They envisaged ultimately a non-stop London-Montreal route on which flying boats capable of carrying 25 passengers and 4000 pounds of mail would be used. BERMUDA TO NEW YORK (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, June 16. Imperial Airways' flying boat Cavalier is scheduled to leave Bermuda to-day on the first flight of the regular Bermuda-New York service, and on Friday the first scheduled flight will be effected from New York to Bermuda by the PanAmerican Bermuda Clipper. , The time for the 770 miles, Bermuda to New York, will be five and a-half hours.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23220, 18 June 1937, Page 9
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