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1929 - 0153.PDF
JANUARY 24, 1929" For Reliability select the NAPIER NEWS has reached London that the womenand children in the British Legation at Kabul were safely removed yesterday by aero- plane to Peshawar. The transfer was carried out with the approval of the Afghan Government. The aeroplane, a Yickers-Victoria, took off from the Sharpur aero- drome, two miles from the Legation, at 10 a.m. and arrived with its passengers at Peshawar at 11.30 safely, having covered a distance of 160 miles in one and a half hour .... The type of aeroplane used to bring back the Legation women and children has two 450 H.P. engines (Napier Lion) and is known as the Vickers-Victoria troop carrier. These machines carry 22 or 23 fully armed infantry, two pilots and a gunner, and they can also be used as ambulances. They have been frequently used to remove the sick in Iracj.JJ THE TIMES, 24 Dec, 1928. The flights—Vickers-Napier aircraft carried out the journey on many occasions—were over coun- try where a forced landing would have been disaster. With Napier engines the risks were reduced to a minimum. NAPIER The finest aero engine in the World D. NAPIER & SON LTD. ACTON • LONDON, Save time by using the Air Mail. xi
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