IMPERIAL AIRWAYS SERVICE
LONDON TO CAPE TOWN (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 3rd January. Imperial Airways announce that 2670 miles of the North Africa section of the London-Cape Town air route will be opened on Thursday, sth March, with an inaugural flight from Cairo to the Mwanza-Tanganyika territory. The flight through from London to Mwanza, a distance of 5100 miles, will take nine days, as against 24 days by surface transport-. The North Africa section between Cairo and Khartoum will be operated by machines of the Annstrong-Siddeley-Ar-gosy type, and short “Calcutta” flyingboats will carry on the route to Kisuinu and Mwanza along tlie Nile and African, lakes.
Tt is hoped that in May, 1931, the full 8000 miles from London to Cape Town will be in operation, bringing London within seven days of Cape Town.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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134IMPERIAL AIRWAYS SERVICE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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