LONDON AIRPORT OPENS
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Will Be World's Largest ULTSMA7E COST £22,000,000
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Received Tuesday, 11.20 a.m. LONDON. May 27. London airport at Heath Row, J.een miles from London, opens an international air terminal 1 week, when B.O.A.C. (British i-'!-rseas Airways Corporation ) , Hv.antas and American Trans--Manlic Strvices will operate Irom Ihe Australian Lancastrian ser- . .■*(' tak'As off for the flrst time on ; v 28. The service previously , "-rated from Hurn, which is 107 . .ies i'roni London. Trans-Atlan- - ■ Services start there on May 31. London airport, which is plannsd be the world's biggest, has . .-ady cust £3,000,000. It is not ; .nly completed and is finaily ing £22.000.000. ihe Evening News aviation cor- ; i'ondtnt. who watched workmen gumnoots squelching through . id and water pitcliing brown rquee.s, says the airfieid acc.om■daiion is very primitive.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 May 1946, Page 5
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