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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 2201.PDF
OCTOBER 26TH, 1944 445 ^wtwsAiir) This map shows the ambitious route programme planned by the railways. In the initial stages the route mileage aggregates 20 million miles annually, and this figure would be increased as new routes were opened. Full details of the railways' proposals are now before the Government. Their intention to do everything in their power to develop air transport in a co-ordinated system of air and ^surface transport, and their exclusive ability to give "complete interavailability by all forms of transport. This proposed air network of the railways, it is claimed, follows logically from the fact that the railway companies have long ceased to be carriers by rail alone, and have become transportation companies offering co-ordinated transport by rail, sea, road and air. They have ten years' experience in operating air services under the-powers granted to them by Parliament, and railway steamship services carried annually 5,000,000 passengers, 2,500,000 tons of cargo and 2,500,000 mail receptacles prior to the war. During the war the aircraft of Railway Air Services and associated companies (which were operating 80 per cent.
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