ADVANCE OF BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION
(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, October 5. Interesting evidence of the development of British civil aviation is revealed in a review of 1937 just published. Imperial Airways statistics show impressive advances in miles flown and passengers carried and in passenger and mail ton miles flown. Mail ton miles in 1937 totalled 3,637,000 compared with 1,794,000 in the previous year. The quantity of air mail despatched abroad was almost double that of 1936 and amounted to 667 tons. Inland air mail rose by 28 per cent, to 500 tons.
During the year there were only five fatal accidents, involving the death of five passengers and serious injuries to five others.
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Southland Times, Issue 23634, 8 October 1938, Page 15
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