PASSENGERS BY AIRSHIP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 465, 5 August 1909, Page 2

PASSENGERS BY AIRSHIP.

Herr Coesmann, managing director of the Zeppelin Airship Construction Company, in a lecture on Count Zeppelin’s future plans, stated that Count Zeppelin intended to establish a number of airship lines for the regular conveyance of passengers between different towns. Count Zeppelin had already been in communication with various municipalities, and had received promises of support from some of the most important towns in Germany. The town council of Cologne, for instance, is willing to invest ,£25,000 in the new company for the inauguration of a line of airships which will establish aerial communication between Cologne and other important centres of the population. The municipality of Dusseldorf is also willing to subscribe a substantial sum towards the capital of the new company. In some cases’ regular lines of airships will be established, while in other cases pleasure cruises will take place at regular intervals. Herr Colsmann staled that 300 days per year are suitable for aerial voyages. The Zeppelin airships which will be used for this purpose will carry a crew ol six, including the engineer, and will be capable of conveying twenty passengers, it is intended that each voyage shall last about seven hours except in the case of long distance cruises from certain fixed towns to other towns. Two airships for the conveyance of passengers will be completed by the early spring of 1910, and two more will be ready by May, 1910.