BRITAIN IS BACKWARD WITH AIR MAIL FLEET
SPEEDING-UP URGED INDIA IN 39 HOURS United I*.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. “There is no technical reason why air mails should not be delivered in India in 30 or 40 hours.” said Sir Samuel Hoare at Ashridge. Air Force machines, he said, move at ISO miles an hour, and there was no reason why similar machines should not be used for mails instead of omnibus machines, which also carried passengers and freights, and which were obliged to stop every 300 miles. The British Post Office had shown itself to be the blackest reactionary in all matters in connection with the air. It had even refused an air stamp. No civil air service in the world was yet self-supporting. Our Continental rivals were receiving 70 per cent, of the total cost in Government subsidies. British air lines were nearer becoming self-supporting than those of the Uni ted# States, Germany, France and Italy, and Britain had an unbeaten record for safety and punctuality.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1081, 19 September 1930, Page 9
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