NEW GIANT PLANE
- FULL-LOAD TESTS
TO SERVE IN EUROPE
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, January 26.
Britain's biggest airliner, the Ensign, was flown to Coventry today for full-load tests, after the completion of which, in about two months' time, she will be handed to the Air Minstry experts for test before going into commission on Empire air routes.
She is the first of 14 giant airliners under construction by Armstrong, Whitworth, some of which will go into service on Empire routes and others on Imperial Airways European routes. The European machines have four saloons (one of them, a cardroom), and the Empire craft, which must carry big mail loads, have three saloons with places for 27 travellers by day and sleeping berths for 20 by night
These 14 monoplanes represent a capital investment, Imperial Airways state, of approximately £750,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 9
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138NEW GIANT PLANE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 9
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