FOR. £30,000
FLIGHT WITH FILMS
ICSOSS ATLANTIC
MOLLISONS NAME PRICE
U.S. WANTS MARSEILLES
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United Tress Association—By Electric TeleGraph— Copyright. (Received October 15, 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. For £30,000 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mollison plan tomorrow a flight to Newfoundland and back with films of King Alexander's assassination, leaving them time to overhaul their machine for the Centenary Air Race. The Atlantic flight will be the culmination of American film interests' battle to outwit the French authorities, who confiscated films about to leave Cherbourg aboard the Bremen. The Americans vainly tried to hire an English aeroplane. Then a film magnate telephoned to the Mollisons on October 13, asking their price for an Atlantic flight. "Thirty thousand pound.?/' replied (lie Mollison?, "£15,000 each." That is really the price at which we place our lives," said Mrs. Mollison (nee Miss Amy Johnson). They intend to refuel in Dublin and fly 2070 miles to Newfoundland, which is actually 483 miles less than the first hop to Bagdad in the Air Race.
Should they reach Newfoundland in ten hours and deliver the films to an American aeroplane, they will return almost immediately.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 9
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190FOR. £30,000 Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 9
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