'PLANE IN' BUSINESS : MR SELFRTDGE'S TRIAL.
LONDON, June 28— Captain Gatherwood, who recently won the aerial Derby, piloted Mr Gordoni Selfridge, founder and head of the great firm of Selfridge and Co., from London to Dublin and back in 6 hours 40 minutes. The distance is 700 miles, and Mr Selfridge, who wanted to transact urgent business, explained that- he made the long journey in perfect comfort. If he had gone in the ordinary wav by train arid steamor it would have taken hirti 20 hours. The achievement, Mr Selfridge says, gives a hint to hurried business men of the advantages to he derived from the further development of aeroplanes in the immediate future. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14963, 16 July 1919, Page 6
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114'PLANE IN' BUSINESS: MR SELFRTDGE'S TRIAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14963, 16 July 1919, Page 6
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