SPEEDING UP TRAVEL
TRANSATLANTIC TRIPS Reed. 9.15 a.m. PARIS, Wed. The fast 43,500-ton liner lie de France Is being equipped with a fiveton seaplane for carrying 15 passengers, or alternatively two tons of mail, according to an announcement by the president of the Academy of Maritime Affairs. He adds: “Shipbuilding has so progressed that it is impossible to produce faster or more economical liners. As ships cannot be speeded up, the only way in which the Atlantic crossing can be reduced to four days is to use seaplanes.” He hopes to save 15 hours at each end.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 239, 29 December 1927, Page 1
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