NEW AIRSHIPS
ARRANGEMENTS FOR HANDLING. (Rec. 5.5 p.m.i Rugby, October 12. Ground arrangements for handling the great airships now being built at Cardington and Howden are well advanced and in addition to the huge shed for the airship RlOl, which is being constructed in Cardington, another shed 812 feet in length with a total width, including annexes, of 275 feet and a total height of 180 feet, has been erected. The ground area occupied is about six acres. The mooring mast at Cardington is a steel girder structure in the form of an octagon. The base is about 70 feet across and the mast tapers to 25 feet at the top where, at a wheight of 170 feet is a passenger platform.—British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20616, 15 October 1928, Page 6
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