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1934
1934 - 0661.PDF
Joun FIRST AERONAUTICAL ^EEKLY IN THE ^WbRLD AIRCRAFT ENGINEERAND AIRSHIPS in 1909 bu Stanley Spooner* DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS, PRACTICE AND PROGRESS AVIATION OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB No. 1332. V#l. XXVI. 26th Year JULY 5, 1934 Thursdays, Price 5d.By Post, 7 d. Editorial, Advertising, and Publishing Offices : DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.ITelegrams: Truditur, Watloo, London. Telephone : Hop 3333 (SO lines). HERTFORD ST., COVENTRY. Telegrams: Autocar, Coventry.Telephone: Coventry 5210. SUBSCRIPTIONRATES : GUILDHALL BUILDINGS,NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2. Telegrams: Autopress, Birmingham.Telephone: Midland 2970. 260. DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER. 3. Telegrams: Hiffe, Manchester.Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. 26B. RENFIELD ST..GLASGOW. C.2. Telegrams: Ilifie, Glasgow.Telephone : Central 4857. Home and Canada: Year, £1 13 0; 6 months, 16s. 6d.; 3 months, 8s. 3d.Other countries;: Year, £1 15 0; 6 months, 17s. 6d.; 3 months, Ss. 9d. iDalesmanshi Air Mail S IT was a brilliant inspiration which prompted theSociety of British Aircraft Constructors threeyears ago to hold a Hendon garden party onthe Monday following the R.A.F. Display and so give the foreigners visiting London a chance to examine the latest British aeroplanes at close quarters. Many of the latest types are to be seen on the Saturday in the park for new and experi- mental types, and last Saturday there was a con- stant throng of spectators all rofcmd this park until 19 hours, over an hour after the Display was over, when the police politely asked them to go home. This shows the increasing interest which the British public is taking in the technical side of aircraft pro- gress, but it is not likely to swell the sales of British aircraft to any great extent. The great crowd of guests which accepted the hos- pitality of the S.B.A.C. last Monday was ample evidence of the high reputation enjoyed by British aircraft abroad. Certainly the English language was heard at intervals on the aerodrome, but it was almost drowned by the Babel of innumerable foreign tongues. As the chairman of the S.B.A.C. remarked in his speech, even the League of Nations had not attracted so many foreigners to one place. Some perhaps only wanted to estimate the value of British air power in the coming years, and we are very glad that the world should know that our designers arc not exactly standing still. Others, doubtless, were considering the purchase of machines from a country whose reputation for sound workmanship is un- rivalled. The S.B.A.C. made them all welcome, and gave them every opportunity to examine the aeroplanes on the ground and to judge of their per- formance in the air. It was good salesmanship, and the result, we hope, will be to gladden the heart of the Chancellor of the Exchequer by increased exports of British aircraft and accessories. erviceT HE air mails, as has often been observed, are a sort of shuttlecock between the three departments of the Air Ministry, the Post Office, and the Treasury. In the past, the Post Office has, on the whole, been the least sympa- thetic. In the very early days it demanded reli- ability, which early air lines could not guarantee, and of late its position has been that it is for the Air Ministry to grant subsidies and it (the Post Office) is not going to spend any of its substantial surplus on helping the air mails to give greater help to the community. Lately, however, the position has grown more promising. The Postmaster General, Sir Kingsley Wood, has stated that he would like to see more frequent air services and faster air services, and that his department was considering the whole matter thoroughly, though it might be some time before he could make a statement on the result of its delibera- tions. It is much to be hoped that the final result will be a low flat rate for Empire air mails such as exists for ordinary letters within the Empire, and perhaps also a lighter minimum weight for air letters. Assistance in the development of night flying would also be of the greatest benefit to the speed of com- munications, and it is surely an elementary business of the Post Office to provide as far as possible for . the greatest possible speed in carrying letters about the Empire. Help could also be given by permitting the K.L.M. to carry British mails between Hull and Holland. Of course there can be no question of granting any sort of contract or subsidy to a foreign company, but it seems rather absurd that when facilities exist for sending letters by a direct route between the north of England and Holland, it should be neces- sary that those letters must all pass through London. We are intensety patriotic as regards air mails, but
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