TKAIX THAT i'l.lK*. LONDON. .lu!y 1!. An ingenious plan lor saving the time oi air passengers is about to be considered In- tho International Air Tralfio Association. Ii i- that the saloon of a loug-dis-t a lice air express should he built to form a separate unit from the wines and motors. This saloon would he so made that it would slide on and olf a .specially devised railway truck. The passengers would take their places in it when it was drawn up at the platform of a railway station in the heart of a city. It would then he drawn by an engine out to the living ground. Here the saloon, shunted into its place as" the main unit of a framework of sustaining planes and aero engines, would be borne at high speed through the air to its destination. Then it would become a “train" again, running in ou the railway to the centre of the city,
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 4
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159Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 4
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