AFRICAN AIR MAIL
FLEET OF NEW MONOPLANES. SPEED OF 150 MILES AN HOUR (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 pm.) Rugby, October 7. Three of a fleet of eight new monoplanes, the first monoplanes to be used by Imperial Airways, have been delivered at London air port for service on the Croydon-Cape Town route, They are known as the Atlanta class and have been specially designed for flying in the tropics by the ArmstrongWhitworth Aircraft Company. Each has four double Armstrong-Siddelley Mongoose engines and is capable of flying at 150 miles an hour. The monoplanes are luxuriously equipped, and it is expected that the whole fleet will be in service by the end of the year. A weekly air mail service has been established between Broken Hill (Northern Rhodesia) and Elizabethville (Belgian Congo), connecting with the England-South African air mail which leaves Croydon every Wednesday.
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Southland Times, Issue 21832, 8 October 1932, Page 5
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