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FLIGHT, AUGUST 3, 1933 1 V0„i n '^ISS^^s;:, J^84A3/« " GENERALFELDMARSCHALL VON HINDENBURG " : The Junkers G 38 D2500 which, as pre viously reported in FLIGHT, was christened at Tempelhof Aerodrome, Berlin, by the Field Marshal. The Outer Hebrides Air Service OUR attention has been drawn to the paragraph in FLIGHT on June 29 which stated that the Air Ministry had insisted that Highland Airways should provide a suitable intermediate landing ground on the route from Inverness to the Outer Hebrides. We are informed by the Air Ministry that they have made no such stipulation. The necessity for the landing ground is entirely the view of Highland Airways themselves, who also feel that a further landing ground, in the middle of the mountain valley leading to Ullapool will also be necessary in order to provide a retreat in case both ends of the valley become shut in with low clouds. It is not expected that anything further will be done about this service until next year. Extension of Air Mail Money Order Service THE Postmaster-General announces that the Air Mail Money Order service has now been extended to Nyassa land Protectorate, Northern and Southern Rhodesia and the Sudan. In addition to poundage at the ordinary rate for Imperial and foreign orders, a special air mail monev order fee of 8d. is payable on each order for Nyassaland Protectorate and Northern and Southern Rhodesia, and 3£d. on each order for the Sudan, irrespective of its amount. Air Mails from Great Britain DURING the quarter ended June 30, 1933, 43,615 lb. of letter air mails were carried from this country, as com pared with 32,869 lb. during the corresponding quarter of 1932, an increase of 33 per cent. The carryings to India alone were 10,770 lb., as compared with 8,847 lb. in the June quarter of 1932, an increase of 22 per cent. Details of the letter air mail traffic are : — June Quarter Indian Air Service (including Egypt, Iraq, etc.) African Air Service Other extra-European services Continental services Total There was also an increase of 15 per cent, in the weight of parcels sent by air, the figures being 39,569 lb. in the June quarter, 1933, as compared with 34,364 lb. in the corresponding quarter of last year. Portsmouth and Isle of Wight Services THE following numbers of passengers were carried dur ing the week ending July 27 on the services operated by the Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation, Ltd.:—Spithead Air Ferry, Ryde and Portsmouth (409) ; Shoreham Air Ferry, Portsmouth and Shoreham (4) ; Shore- ham Air Ferry, Shoreham and Isle of Wight (4) ; Shanklin Air Ferry, Portsmouth and Shanklin (22) ; Shanklin Air Ferry, Ryde and Shanklin (16). Loss of the Italian Seaplane IT will be remembered that an Italian seaplane of the Aero-Espresso disappeared when flying from Phaleron 1932. Lb. 13,035 3,530 5,371 10,933 32,869 1933. Lb. 15,654 5,363 6,429 16,169 43,615 to Rhodes on July 18. It had a crew of four and two women passengers. The body of one of the passengers, the Spanish Senorita Cattegno, has since been found in the Gulf of Saros. Palestine Air Mail IN answer to questions in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, July 26, concerning the transference of mail contracts from English to Dutch Air lines by the Palestine Government, Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister stated that the Dutch mails left on Tuesdays and the British on Fridays. The Government use for urgent correspondence whichever air mail is available nearest to the date when despatch is desirable. More Commercial Users of Aircraft WE learn from Brian Lewis & Co., Ltd., of 30, Con duit Street, London, W.l, that during the last six months they have supplied aircraft to the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Midland & Scottish Air Ferries, Ltd., Hillmans Airways, Highland Airways, Ltd., Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation, Ltd., North Sea Aerial & General Transport, Ltd., Blackpool & West Coast Air Services, Ltd., Airwork, Ltd., Manchester. Rollason Aviation Co., Ltd., International Air Lines, Ltd. The machines supplied have been D.H. "Dragons," "Fox Moths" and "Puss Moths," and a General Aircraft " Monospar." The growth of commercial flying which these orders imply _ is also brought out in our special article elsewhere in this issue. Brian Lewis & Co. hold the de Havilland agency for London, north of the Thames, Middlesex, Herts, Essex, Bedford, Cambridge, Suffolk, Norfolk, Huntingdon, Lin coln, Notts, Derby, Chester, Lancashire, York, Westmore land, Durham, Cumberland, Northumberland, also Scot land and Ireland, and are the sole distributors for the "Dragon." They hold the General Aircraft agency tor England, north of the Thames, Scotland and Ireland, ine volume of business Brian Lewis & Co. have done with all these firms, most of whom have purchased several machines, speaks well for them as live agents. Air Lines in Jamaica SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER stated in the House of Com mons on Wednesday, July 26, that two American and two British companies had applied for permission to operate air services to and from Jamaica. One American app"ca" tion was granted to the company in 1928 but advantage was not taken of the permission given. In 1930, perrn sion was granted to Pan American Airways to operate an air service to Jamaica. The service started in 193" an is still being operated. In 1929, Atlantic Airways, W- applied for permission to operate air services to the Indies, but the proposal to operate to Jamaica dropped. In 1930 Caribbean Airways, Ltd., a Britisi was re registered in Jamaica, proposed to build an air base fly services from Jamaica, Haiti and the Bahamas. Owing to a breakdown in negotiations concerning financial a *J ance the proposals put forward have not yet materia.0 780
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