£500 AIR-CARS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 2, 28 September 1920, Page 4

£500 AIR-CARS

PLYING TO BECOME A CHEAP. MEANS OT? TRAVEL; It is not only quicker but it will 6oon also be cheaper to fly than to travel by other means, tho "Daily Mail" etatca _ As a result of the Air Show at Olympia, London, and data recently, obtained, » ' e little touring aeroplane is-bcing produced bv a famous firm which will carry its owner-driver and a friend with ft simple engine no more powerful than that in a motor-car. This little "sportplane, or "air-car," will tour at 60 miles an hour for an expenditure on petrol and oil which works out-even a} the present high priees-at only lid. a mile. The owner and his passenger will be abt» to journey from the air port of London to Lo Bourget oute.de Pnns for a flvine cost for the two of them oi only A L whereas their first-class rail and teat fares by the shortest sea, route would o tem M 12s. IM. The journey tw Inn 1 and m occupies nine hours as elidedwitf a little less than four small aeropane is 2s. <5d., while .the charges for garaging one.for the night ' S As scon as they can be produced in ouantitks these little air-cars will cost . much less to buy than motor-cars. Already vou can get one for prices ranging from iSOO to £750, and it must be remembered that the tyro bill of tho aerial tourist is negligible.

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