AIR STATION SCRAPPED
RETURN TO POTATOES. From cabbages ’ and potatoes to a great airship base. And now back again to potatoes and cabbages! That is the fate which the decision of Mr. J. E. Mortimer, one of the principal landowners in the district, to dismantle the great airship station at Howden, Yorkshire, means for the town. It is the final blow since the RlOl disaster. Until the war Howden was an agricultural centre. Then someone decided it was suitable for an airship base. The airship station which was then built cost £270,000, covered sixteen acres, consisted of 8000 tons of steelwork, and housed sixteen airships. And when the mighty RlOO sailed for Cardington, never to return, great things were prophesised. But that was the end. Mr. .Mortimer, who bought the airship station after Britain’s airship policy had been scrapped, spent years in trying to place ’ Howden on the’ air map before ’ failure forced him to decide to “scrap the lot.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1933, Page 9
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