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1934
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FLIGHT, APRIL 19, 1934 RAILWAY AIR SERVICES OME further details are to hand of the first of the Railway Air Services—that arranged by the Southern Railway in co-operation with Spartan Air Lines, Ltd., and operated by the latter be- tween Croydon and the Isle of Wight. There will be three services in each direction daily, com- mencing May 1, two in the morning and one in the even- ing. These services will start from Imperial Airways, Victoria Station, passengers being conveyed by motor-car to Croydon Airport and thence by air to the Isle of Wight, landing at Cowes. An additional service in each direction will be run during the height of the season in the early afternoon. The over-all time of journey will be 1^ hours, the actual air portion occupying 50 minutes. The service should particularly appeal to London business men. The single fare for the whole journey will be 30s. (return fare 50s.), and holders of return tickets can, if they so desire, return first class by the Southern Railway steamers via Ryde and Portsmouth and restaurant-car expresses to London, without extra charge. The new service will, therefore, provide under one charge the pos- sibility of travelling by air, rail, sea and road. In addition to the Imperial Airways offices, tourist agencies, etc., tickets can be obtained and seats reserved at the principal stations on the Southern system, and also at the Spartan Air Lines offices, Somerton Aerodrome, Cowes, Isle of Wight. The machines to be used on the service are the Spartan THE SINGAPORE-DARWIN MAIL CONTRACT AN announcement is expected shortly, says the Can- berra correspondent of The Times, that the Federal Council now sitting has accepted the sub-committee's re- commendation of the tender of the Australian company formed jointly by Imperial Airways and the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (Qantas) for the Singapore-Darwin air mail service. The correspondent adds that tenders for the subsidiary Australian services are likely to be delayed. It is expected that the air mail between Singapore and Darwin will commence operations this summer and the passenger service early next year. SOUTH AFRICAN SERVICES INTRODUCING the Railway Budget in the Union House of Assembly at Cape Town, on April 11, Mr. Pirow, the Minister for Railways, stated that the policy of the Govern- ment was to bring all regular internal air services under Government control. Negotiations were proceeding, he said, whereby South West Airways would be taken over, and a number of new services worked out. The restora- tion of the daily service between Johannesburg and Dur- ham was contemplated, and next year two new services, from Cape Town to Windhoek and from Johannesburg to Louren^o Marques, might bt established. It was hoped that Imperial Airways would decide to establish the pro- posed service from East Africa to Durban, East London and Capetown. The Government was prepared to con- sider the withdrawal of the competitive service over the coastal route in the event of the establishment of this service. DUTCH SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA ? Java Bode, a Dutch East Indian newspaper, re- ports that as soon as the Imperial Airways line to Aus- tralia is open, a Dutch service to Autstralia will also be started. A NORTH DEVON PLEASURE SERVICE ? AIR MINISTRY permission is being sought for the estab- lishment of an aerial pleasure service between Heanton, North Devon, and Lundy Island. RECORD FLIGHT ON BRAZIL-GERMANY SERVICE A •RECORD was created last week by Deutsche Luft Hansa on the Transatlantic air mail service, when the 5,600 miles from South America to Germany were covered in 2 days 23 hours 45 minutes. The previous record was 3J days. The flight was made in four stages, using four aircraft. On Friday, April 6, a Dornier " Wai " flying " Cruisers," three-engined air liners having a cruising speed of 118 miles per hour, with a top speed of 140 miles, per hour. The cabins are well ventilated, free from ex- cessive noise and vibration and providing accommodation for six or seven passengers and their luggage. On the latest type of air liner, toilet accommodation is provided. The route taken will be over the most beautiful parts of Surrey and Hampshire, with views of Dorking, Hasle- mere, Midhurst and Hayling Island, with Portsmouth and Southsea and Southampton Water in the distance, and the whole of the South Coast panorama stretching eastward towards Brighton. These can be easily seen from any seat in the air liner. Railway Air Services, Ltd., have placed an order with de Havilland's for a number of their aircraft to be used on a daily service between Plymouth and Liverpool, with intermediate stops at Cardiff, Bristol and Birmingham— an extension of the service operated last year by the Great Western Railway. These machines will be the new type " Dragon," with two " Gipsy VI " engines, carrying eight passengers at a cruising speed of 145 m.p.h. Full details of this machine have not yet been released, but it is understood to be a combination of the essential features of the " D.H.86 " four-engined air liner and the well-tried " Dragon." These machines are due for de- livery in July and August, and until that time the service will be maintained with standard " Dragons " (" Gipsy Major " engines). boat left Natal, Brazil, at 9.14 a.m., and reached the " parent ship " Westfalen, moored 950 miles away, at 6.49 p.m. The next day, at 12.58 a.m., a second machine (probably a Dornier " Wai ") was catapulted from the ship, and arrived at Bathurst, British Gambia, at 9.39 a.m. An hour later the third stage was commenced, and the mails arrived at Seville on Sunday, at 1.20. The machine carrying the mails on the final stage reached Stuttgart at 8.59 a.m. on Monday. AIR LINE FOR ABYSSINIA WALTER MITTELHOLZER, the Swiss airman, who recently flew a triple-engined Fokker to Addis Ababa for the use of the Emperor of Abyssinia, will return to Abyssinia this autumn to establish a Swiss-controlled air line in that country. D.H. 86'S FOR JERSEY AIR LINES WE learn from Mr. Thurgood that he is putting two D.H. 86 four-engined machines on the Jersey Air Services next September. These machines will carry 14 passengers each, and when they are in operation the standard " Dragons " will be withdrawn from regular service. His fleet, of which one will continue to operate over the summer, consists of eight machines. DUTCH AIRCRAFT FOR IRISH COMPANY ? IT is understood that representatives of the Irish Aviation Development Corporation, for which a provisional board has now been nominated, will visit Amsterdam during the next few days to negotiate for the purchase of aircraft for the operation of the Corporation's services between Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Gal way. which are to be opened during the summer. GERMANY AND ARGENTINE AIR MAILS UP to the present Germany has had no postal con- tracts with the Argentine, so that Argentine air mails could not be carried by German aircraft returning from South America. On April 4 the President of the Argentine Republic granted to the Condor Syndicate the right to transport Argentine mails. The Condor Syndicate, it will be remembered, is affiliated to the Luft Hansa interests, and takes over, on the South American seaboard, mails carried by Luft Hansa aircraft. Negotiations have recently taken place between French and German companies with a view to forming a pool agreement, which, during four years, would give 62J per cent, of the profits made on the South Atlantic route to French companies and 37^ per cent, to German interests. This idea has met with strong opposition in French aeronautical circles. 382
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