CALL OF SPEED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 7

CALL OF SPEED.

AERIAL TRANSPORT.

Rail And Shipping Must Link Up With Aviation.

PEERING AHEAD,

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 8. Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, in his presidential address to the Institute of Transport, advised railway and shipping companies to avail themselves of the developments of air transport. Shipowners, he said, should arrange to carry first-class mail matter and speed passengers by air, using slower, more comfortable and more profitable ships for the remainder of their traffic. "We are on the threshold of far-reach-ing air traffic developments affecting the future of the nation and the Empire as vitally as shipping and railroads have done. There are at present 73,300 miles of properly organised air routes in the world." Air transport was at present unprofitable, because it could not deal with heavy freights and third-class passengers, which were the mainstays of most railways and shipping lines. He believed that probably a weekly air service to India would pay at no distant date. Among the future possibilities would be liners equipped as aircraft carriers.

TRIAL FLIGHT

German Zeppelin Attains Speed Of 75 M.P.H. MAILS FOB AMERICA. (Australian and N.Z. Press.Association.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN, October 8. In to-day's successful trial the Graf Zeppelin attained a speed of 75 miles per hour. On its trans-Atlantic flight the airship will carry apparatus for receiving radio-telegraphed pictures, including frequent weather charts to be drawn up by the Muncin weather expert. The post office at Friedrichshafen is inundated with postal packages for everywhere in the world, including the United States, for inclusion in the airship's 50-ton airmail to America.