AIRWAYS IN EUROPE
BRITISH PLANES EXCEL
SYDNEY, Dec. 1. Mr. P. S. Rudder, a director of Rudder’s, Limited, who has returned from Europe, said, in an interview yesterday, that the average Australian did not realise the strides aviation had made in Europe. Mr. Rudder went abroad to study the organisation of Imperial Airways, and other airways on the Continent. said that one day ho visited Tempelhof aerodrome in Berlin, and was amazed to flpd that in five hours 22 large air mail liners arrived at and left L the aerodrome with about 200
passengers. ‘(The plants arrived at platforms, just as trains do, and there were indicators outside,” said Mr. Rudder. Air. Rudder said that Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, and England fi’ll hfid splendid services. British p)aucs excelled in comfort, safety, and reliability. On big European planes passengers could walk around at will, flye-course meals were served, and 5 a bar Wat provided.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 8
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