AIRSHIP TRAVEL.
EMPIRE SERVICES. PRELIMINARY WORK. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 19. The Daily Express says that, after failures, half-hearted efforts and long delay, Britain has at last set to work earnestly to establish the world’s greatest airship service in Cardington Village, near Bedford, which i$ destined in a few years to become the largest air port in the service to Europe. Empire airships will arrive and depart from this port, and they will commence services to Egypt, India. Australia. Canada and South Africa. It is officially announced that the preliminarv construction work is being carried out by the Air Ministry’s RlOl. the mammoth sister airship to the one described in former cables. She will have a rustless steel hull, seven engines developing 4000 horse-power, a speed of ft’O miles per hour, and will carry 100 J»as?>engers, who will sleep in two-berth cabins on a separate deck amidships. She will be designed for alternative war •en-ice.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1924, Page 8
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