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1924
1924 - 0248.PDF
HANDLEY PAGE THREE-ENG1NED COMMERCIAL AEROPLANE FOR BELGIUM Interesting New Machine to be used in Belgian Congo ON Friday of last week representatives of the Press were It is interesting to study the way in which the Belgian present at a demonstration of the first of the new Handle - Government have developed their civil aviation work. In Page three-engined aeroplanes which has just been completed 1919, in collaboration with Handley Page Transport, Ltd., at the Handley Page Cricklewood Works. The new machine on the London-Bruxelles route, with the Messageries Aeriennes THE HANDLEY PAGE W. 8 F : Front view. The central Rolls-Royce "Eagle " engine is running. has-been built for the Belgian Air Navigation Co., Ltd., or on the London-Paris route and with the Royal Dutch Transport to give it its proper Belgian title, the Societe' Anonyme Beige Company on the Amsterdam-Bruxelles route, a complete d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne, usually abbreviated programme of air transport was arranged under a company to the initial letters SABENA. It is understood that although formed to investigate the commercial possibilities of air the first machine was built at Cricklewood, subsequent ones transport. The name of the company indicates its object. THE HANDLEY PAGE W. 8 F : Three-quarter front view. Next to the pilot is Major-General Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation. of the same type are to be constructed in Belgium under being the National Company for Investigating Air Transport licence by the Societe Anonyme Beige de Constructions Aero- Sociite Rationale pour VEtude des Transport Aeriens). A nautiques (SABCA). The machines will, we gather, be used Belgian service was run during 1920 and 1921, in connection both on the European air lines and also, and particularly, on with the above-mentioned firms, and in 1922 and 1923 a a service to be established in Belgian Congo. service was run by the Belgian company themselves, a The Handley Page W. 8 F : Three-quarter rear view. 248
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