STATION ROOF AIRPORT
LONDON SCHEME COMPANY TO PROMOTE BILL LONDON, Feb. 22. A company has been formed under the title of Central Air Ports, Limited, to promote a hill in Parliament for permission to build at St. Pancras and King’s Cross, over the railway goods yards, a huge flat-roofed structure, the top of which could be used as an aerodrome.
Sir Alfred Beit, M.P., is chairman of tho company. ’fhe cost of the project will probably be in the neighborhood of £5.000.000. Tt will be remembered that a model of the proposed rooftop aerodrome, which in plan aspect resembled a cartwheel, was shown at the Building Exhibition at Olympia last. September. It is the design of Captain C. W. Glover.
The aerodrome facilities are only one side of the undertaking, for St. Pancras and King’s Cross are great marketing and transport centres, and the scheme is designed to exploit this fact and serve the many interests concerned.
No opposition will be forthcoming either from the Air Ministry, railway companies, the canal authorities or the local administrative bodies.
In view of the concentration now taking place on the design of slowlanding aircraft, the scheme is quite practicable.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18057, 6 April 1933, Page 4
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