AIRSHIP ENQUIRY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1930, Page 3

AIRSHIP ENQUIRY

END OF ENQUIRY, i United! Press Association —By Electric <^^'Telegraph.-Copyright. ). LONDON, December 5. The RlOl airship inquiry has closed. Squadron Leader Nixon, in charge oi the organisation at Cardington, speaking under strees of emotion, recalled that Colmore inspired the drawing up of a document estimating the fuel requirements for the Indian trial, showing s t|i|t • nVu.clx the- more d fficult conditions were-expected on the voyage going home. Colmore had told witness that Scott would have to satisfy him that the. . conditions were favourable before thet sanctioned leaving Karachi. He would not run any risks even tinder Lord 'ihomson’s pressure. Therefore he had, asked for arrangements enabling Lord Thomson to return by areoplane- by October 20th if necessary. Witness added that Colmore, over two yeans’ previously, had urged mooring masts at Malta, Baghdad or Basra, not outy ju view of. emergency hut because tWw would be commercially sound, when the service began. The Air had answered that, the airship programme had been already much extended, and the Treasury could not lie . asked for - 'more money before ■*» Sr.’ sqine,.flying was done . . - •f .questioned ; rega rd ing Com•evidence, that an airshijf generally d.o<sjpoit.keep 4n - accurate height. After changing . watch,; the. going-off coxswa n siipyid stixiid by the new-cqmer for t\yp 6y.three minutes to see that he got the the correct feel.