Great Future as Air-Port Predicted for Southampton
British Official Wireless .
Reed. noon. RUGBY, Thursday. Sir Eric Geddes, chairman of the Imperial Airways, who yesterday with other directors and friends made a trial trip from Southampton to the Channel Islands and back In one of the new Calcutta flying-boats, which Is to be used on the Empire air-line to India, stated that within 18 months Southampton would become one of the most important air-ports in the world, and would probably be the starting place of the Great Empire air service.
It is expected that the air service to India will start next April. The Imperial Airways consider the all-metal Singapore type to be the best flying-boat yet developed, either in ihis\ov any other country. It is intended to run an air service with these craft across the Mediterranean, to join up with the existing Cairo-Basra service. This service will he extended to India, thereby fulfilling the scheme recently outlined in the House of Commons by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 447, 31 August 1928, Page 1
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