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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1983, 13 February 1914, Page 4

Coal was first used at Netvcns'tltf-o-n-Tyntt about Hie year 12ifO, and became an article of trade hehvwi that town and London smite 50 yeaw lntW. . ' The .ainaan Sikorsky, the' dcs-!B«-e.r of n giant iieropliHio-whieh -tfjis constrnctal eotiie time ago t« «arty ekven jperaons., has successfully tested an ierofilano, half as large again, says the Kt, Petersburg enrrcsjiomleht ot "Tho Times." Ai-eoriUnjj to tho "Bonnie the. new aero, isfiHifl weUlis 3J tott9» 4wt is tiropt'Hed by four 100 li.p. motors. There are cabinn jvith -slecfiinp: accommodation for a mum ber of p;i??«n-gers. The machiiip lost aftw a run of 1t!0 yards nhd tiirelftl tho ac-ro-drsvmo wHhent a hitch. Srliorsl;y was w-poTtt-d in August Inst tn have parried spven naswngets in lijs first giant Mteplann a <list:\iree of iifi inife?, the fHsht occupyinp! Ilir. 54niin. It Hops init, lioivover. appear thst this report has bi#n lyinfn'mt , '}, since the feat is not iniihidcd in the list of the world'* "rpwrds" to S»p(Mnb?r 3!5, nassed bjr th* Awntiautifiuo InternAUMai* ftfid , . pub--*H].ishsd In -"Fltebt" 09 November 2,2.