COMMERCIAL AVIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1920, Page 5

COMMERCIAL AVIATION.

COMPREHENSIVE PLANS. The enterprise of. the Handley Page Company in commercial aviation is one of the most stimulating factors in the comparatively new science of ''flying," and some "notable records of quick delivery have been made by the com-1 pany'3 establishment at Cricklewood. One day last February a consignment of goods left Paris at 12.20, arrived at Cricklewood at 3.35, and within an hour the goods had been passed through the Customs and were delivered in London. | The passengers who left Paris at 12.20 ' p.m. were in London at four o'clock. The aerodrome is twenty minutes' journey from Piccadilly Circus; thus the voyage l from Paris to the heart of London may Ihe said to have occupied four hours. In i illustration of the progress that the Handley Page Company are making abroad, it may be stated that Handley , Page aeroplanes and otlier British machines owned by the company have flown for commercial purposes in Peru, Buenos Ayres, Calcutta, South Africa, Poland, Spain, United States of America, Scandinavia, China and Greece. These undertakings represent the first stage of an ambitious scheme to advance the interests of British aircraft to every part of the world, and establish mail, passenger and freight-carrying air routes in /the leading countries abroad.