FUTURE OF AIR MAILS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1923, Page 4

FUTURE OF AIR MAILS.

.MACHINES TO CARRY 100 PASSENGERS. I-OXIjO-X. June «5. A new policy in the development of long-distance air mails was foreshadowed at yesterday's meeting of the International Air Congress at the Institution of Civil Engineers. Westminster. -Biig.-Hen. E. M. Willianisun, director of .Postal Services at the General I’o.st Office, .summarising the experience of bis department in despatching mads by aeroplane, said that on -horttlistanee. routes the saving of time over earth transport, was not .sufficient to attract any satisfactory volume ol letters to the air.

On long routes, however sue!] as the.i. hv which the air-carriage of mails between Cairo and Magi ibd accelerate!, by nearly three weeks the transit of letters between Loudon and Baghdadresults were very much more encouraging; at the pres, ill lime more than i.r per cent, of the letter-mail from this countiy to Baghdad being c-rried by

(iein'-ivd V.'illiamsoii added that trom Cte past Oliiee point, of view if aeroplane night-tlying proved practicable there wa- no doubt that the postal service'. eo.dd be imptoved materially to places within a. radius of. say. 700 to WE I miles. If husiim s cniiespondeii'-e poslvd ::t the end of the day ill London could he delivered next morning i.i Co; <. nliagi'ii. li.iuitbtirg. Merlin. Prague, Vienna. Rome, Milan, or .Marseilles, the inducement tu ti e pr.biie send its lell ms by air would, (leaiIv. be eiiormunslv increased.

Majoi-Geuei al, Kir Kcit'ii Braneker. Director of Civil Aviation, announced that, next nemth the new oliieial committee eii air mails will begin its .sitting', end that one of its important, aims will be, in the light of what had been dene already experimentally in aoinph'ne mail tiansCorl. to promote a greater and wider co-operation between count ries. An instancing the value of a long route on which the real speed of the aeroplane triumphs over the delays of land connections. General Mram-ker cited tb.e service run by the French between Toulouse and Casablanca, which wav. he raid, from the mail point ef view, ’ roving one of the most successful. in the world.

The new committee would endeavour to foster long through imei'iiatmnal airmail routes, in v. Id-b the posinl nutholitie.s of various countries co-op.vi .-.ted with the air tram-port companies, amt time-P.'ble.s V, ere arranged so as to e-lfeet air (omu■•■tioii- in all dii'e- i. ;o:is. Such linked mute-. extending limn re-.ieuy to ei.UUliy and all v.i:rking to a collet 1-1 .'tl plan would, v. hen we ron e organised internal h ind 11i•_hL-!I• ing. Ira ns! i .aiii the v.!: !e aiqe-t of ..la-mail i ran-poi t. if I. m me: •>: 1 1 aviation, cent! it at ml by M•■:-!-•, I-’. W. Handley Page and W. P. So,I; was pointed out I 'mi riii ab-sem-e i ( e. seitteil tiitvernil.cm policy in ihi-, count I. v bad hindered progre-.-. I n ei 11- e.jUeii ' ’ • re had be n little adv.lrce ill aeroplane eoll-ti Uetieol, and v. e v still icing euv.iues paodmed in: !er v ii a eomiiiioo- I'm- war pnrpo is. The I ell se•j Ue i! o: 1 s • f i ii.s w ere : We sirll had no regular niglit Hying servi e. and we -till did not Ily through fog. We had mu yet ol,mined an engine which we knew would run .we. i ...i.v and veil fill a deiini I<• ] ei h d. provisions in the me,.: d ii, -iekm-.-s Mr mid l,e in-- orp. i: md in ia Me » or., - I- • 1 .11 necli mill or ■ End ear.-rd pure a h.,. ef I rouble v, ill, r.-uing

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