PROMOTION OF CIVIL AVIATION IN ENGLAND

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 69, 1 November 1928, Page 5

PROMOTION OF CIVIL AVIATION IN ENGLAND

MINISTRY’S APPEAL . TO LOCAL BODIES. > -C ■■ r 'toPROVIIOE AERODROMES. GROWTH OF SERVICES. ■ ‘ ‘ British Official Wireless. - ' RUGBY. October 30. • A remarkable new step towards promotion of civil aviation .has been taken by the Air Ministry. The Minister ■ has addressed a letter to, the town clerks of tb© rhiej proving cial cities and towns asking them to consider the advisability oj. establishing niun icipal aerodromes with as little delay as possible. The letter says : “The development of internal Hying is almost entirely dependent on the provision of aerodromes at the large centres. The provision: of, aerodrome?; and auxiliary, services by air must necessarily, if ■only on grounds of the, capital cost, .be confined to terminal points,, , oui trunk, routes. The establishment of: a network of aerodromes throughout the country to serve the general purposes of internal flying must devolve oh the local authorities, who htdy: indeed! expect to benefit ultimately' by ’-the traffic' 1 and comm.ere© which ■Will follow the provision, of these flaks ilitica. >1 to j ;. .‘“lt is th A opinion of the Air Connciln'/tliafei ©very town of any. import-, aifce will sooner or later find ,it just as essential. to possess well situated aerodromes as it does to-day to possess'railway stations, roads and gar-- ■ ' - A ages. . . Tffiisf appeal to the municipal autlibrifiiefs is reinforced by a statement of the progress madia by tlx© regular Britiahi air services. These consist at pWfcfent : df' the operation of the crossChannel ai-r routes and of the' route between Cairo and Basra, The growth cf;.-,traffic .on . the cross-Chlumel services is 'showing a marked increase, jin 1927 British machines carried 1t>,.533 passengers, compared with SS^inT^L... ' , ■ Notwithstanding keen comjpetition! by four foreign air lines operating to Croydon froin various parts of the !..V trtlhent, it is pointed' out that British*'machines are carrying by far til© 'largest number of passengers. Id 1927 Belgian machines carried 140 Q passengers, French 5199, Cere map .1972 and the Netherlands .3386.,' ~y r , STATE CONTROL OBJECTED TO. ..., .(Received 9.25 a.m.),-, , I’ LONDON, October 31. The “Morning Post” expresses the hope that the Air Ministry’s proposals' will' noiT lead to an extension of State control of civil aviation, which At present is developing rfipid-,1 ly and naturally out of control of the fih«i-i-Australian Press Assn.