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290 FLIGHT MARCH 15TH, 1945 EXPANSIONW ORK has already begun on extending the runways at Lisbon Airport for the larger airliners that are to be used by B.O.A.C and Pan-American Airways. FROM BELFASTS IR BASIL BROOKE, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, stated that as a result of his talks with Lord Swinton, it has been arranged to study the possibilities of establishing an international airport in Northern Ireland. * TAXI!O PERATION of air taxi service in Portugal is the subject of a licence granted to the farm of Daun and Black, Ltd., by the Portuguese Civil Aviation Secretariat. The taxip will be used for passenger and freight carriage inside Portugal and to places abroad. T.U.C ALARMED 'piIE General Council of the Scottish T.U.C. in a resolution -»- for the annual congress at Aberdeen on April 25th expresses alarm at the indefinite statements of the Government on the permanent retention of Prestwick Airdrome as a first- class international airdrome and at the Government's" luke- warmness on the Forth bridge. Both projects, the Council consider, are of exceptional importance to Scotland's industrial life. NEWSPAPERS BY PARACHUTES IR MILES THOMAS, vice-chairman cf the Nuffield Organization, at the Banbury Rotary Club said he did not think there would be enough aerial traffic to justify an expen- sive municipal airport in every town. He visualised commerce using the air to a great extent, however, and said he thought glider trains would distribute morning papers by parachute, with a light alloy printing machine aboard the tug plane to allow latest news flashed by radio to be stop pressed. Even with the transmission of the normal news service over the radio the written word and particularly the illustrated word would always augment the spoken message, Sir Miles added. IN THE HOUSEA LLUDING to the proposed London Airport at Heath Row, Mr. Fred Montague (Labour), former Under-Secretary for Air, said during the Air Estimates debate in the House that normally the best agricultural land in Middlesex did not com- mand more than .£25 per acre. While recognising the necessity for compensation for farm buildings, etc., against this, he was told that the Government were prepared to pay up to j£6oo an acre. Turning to post-war civil aviation, Mr. Montague said that a deal bad been made with the railway and shipping companies of this country and that minutes of a private meeting between Lord Swinton and the independent operators show that the Government was throwing at them a declared policy which had not been declared previously either to the House or to the country. "This idea that the railway and shipping companies have vast experience in transport is all my eye and Betty Martin," Mr. Montague said. "This means monopoly and prefabrica- tion, backstair-influence and a game of poker with national interests on world peace as counters," he added. Commander Brabner, replying, said that there had been no devolutions of White Paper information about civil air policy tp people ontside the House of Commons. In legal fact there was as yet no White Paper on the subject, he said, and added that there would be a White Paper in due course and then the House would have, presumably,, an opportunity to discuss it. Further than that, he. did not think he could be expected to go. THE RAILWAYS' SHAREN EGOTIATIONS on points of principle of post-war civil transport between the Government aud the railways have been concluded, and the railways hope to have a substantial share in European and internal air services, stated the Southern Railway chairman addressing the company's annual meeting. The discussions with Lord Swinton and Sir William Hildred, the Director-General of Civil Aviation, have been frank and businesslike, he added, with each party in no doubt of the intentions and good faults of the other. SOUTH AFRICAN CONFERENCE \7TSCOUNT SWINTON, the Minister for Civil Aviation, will V be the Chairman of the U.K. delegation to the South African Civil Aviation Conference which is due to open at Cape Town on March 20th. Other U.K. delegates are: The Hon. Sir Evelyn Baring, High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, represent- ing Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swazi- land; Mr. W. C. G. Cribbett, Assistant Under-Secretary, Civil Aviation; Mr. W. J. Bigg, Colonial Office. Advisers: Viscount Knollys, Chairman, British Overseas Airways Corporation; Mr. N. Pritchard, Dominions Office; Mr. B. C. H. Cross, Colonial Office; Mr. L. J. Dunnett, Mr. R D. Poland, and Mr. F. A. Butters, Office of the Minister for Civil Aviation; Mr. D. S. S. MacDowell, British Overseas Air- ways Corporation. TO THE CONTINENT PROPOSALS for post-war civil air services between theUnited Kingdom and Europe have been submitted to Lord Swinton, Minister for Civil Aviation, by Shipping Airlines, Ltd., which represents 37 shipping companies, including some large tramp owners, , The company is formed of a group of the British mercanti^' marine distinct from the shipping companies who are con- cerned with air services to South America, and also from the few shipping companies who have associated themselves with the railways. Major Mayo worked out the technical aspects of the project, which is designed to provide efficient services between Britain and all European capitals. The chairman of the company, Mr. R. D. Ropner—a director of the shipping firm of Sir R. Ropner and Co., Ltd.—had a recent opportunity to discuss the company's proposals with Lord Swinton RAILWAYS' AIR PLAN SIR HAROLD HARTLEY, vice-president of the L.M.S. andchairman of the Railways Air Committee, told a London IJress conference that the railways planned to operate the service's without subsidy, assuming that neither subsidies nor special advantages would be given to other services, including foreign air lines entering Britain on a reciprocal basis. As reported in Flight, October 26th, 1944, the railways pro- pose to form a separate air company to operate regular services in Britain, including Northern Ireland, the Channel Isles and Isle of Man, and to Eire and the Continent. They propose to .offer partnership to other air operators who provided regular services in this country before the war and those shipping lines who operated regular pre-war services. Sir Harold said that an initial expenditure of ^5,000,000 would be available to operate the plan, all of which would be provided by the rail group. "Railways pre not asking for air transport monopoly," he stated, " we have offered to take the rough with the smooth-4- the profitable routes with the unprofitable routes." T~" "Two years' investigation has shown there was insufficient traffic on the pre-war routes in Britain to justify competition, but as flying develops and the public gets more air-minded there will be the call for flying from centres in this country to the Continent, and that is %vhat the railways hope to operate, in partnership with others. '' The railways intend to use two types of British-built aircraft, one a 25-seater twin-engined monoplane for Con- tinental operations and the longer distance international ser- vices, and the other a twin-engined 12-seater airciaft for short- range operations. Specifications for Type 1 (corresponding figures for Type 2 in brackets) provide for an all-up weight of 30,000 lb. (15,000), net payjoad 6,200 lb. (3,500) exclusive crew of four, operational range 500-600 miles (300-500), ceiling 20,000ft. (18,000), rate of climb 1,600ft./min. from sea level (1,000ft./min.) and 300ft./min. (250ft./min.) on one engine at full all-up weight. Type 1 is to have an economical cruising speed of about 200 m.p.h. (160) at not more than 50 per cent, take-ofi power. '' But at the moment there are no British aircraft to fit the service and in the interim of what might be about two years, Dakotas will be used," Sir Harold stated. Mr. John Elliott, deputy general manager of the S.R., said that within ten to fifteen years they visualise that the majority
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