FLYING-BOAT BASE
Sir, —I thank “M.L.K.” for his letter but I thought I had clearly stated my desires. I presume “M.L.K.” read the four reports in the last week’s daily papers. Three indicated that flyingboats would be used extensively. If we are to receive them, there will have to be a base; and where else can'it be prepared than at the Estuary? I’m afraid that “M.L.K.’s” “unlimited future of air transport” is an exaggeration. America favours land planes because of their vast land distances; but England looks to the sea and therefore accepts seaplanes; and we follow her. One word about the tunnel: did “M.L.K.” read that machinery had to be brought by road from Lyttelton and some time agQ a boiler was transhipped to Woolston via the Estuary? This doesn’t look as if the tunnel will accommodate the whole traffic much longer.—Yours, etc., EDGAR J. STEEDS. June 18, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 10
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