AIR PROJECT.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1921, Page 5

AIR PROJECT.

EMPIRE AIRSHIP COMPANY. QUESTION FOR THE PREMIERS. LONDON-INDIA IN 80 HOURS, — % By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 7, 8.10 p.m. London, June 6. The Daily Mail states that the Empire Prime Ministers will be asked at the conference to consider the formation of an Imperial airship transport company, in which England and the Dominions will be financially interested. The Air Ministry is prepared to hand over existing airships and equipment and to consider the granting of a subsidy of £250,000 annually. For the preliminary stages designs are being prepared and the construction is contemplated of a type of airship for Imperial intercommunication, which will be the largest in the world, carrying twenty tons of freight to Egypt in forty hours and to India in eighty hours. A series of flights from the Croydon aerodrome have been arranged for the Prime Ministers to participate m.— United Service.

LONDON TO AUSTRALIA IN TEN DAYS. VALUE IN WAR TIME, Received June 7, 5.5 p.m. London, June 6. The Daily Chronicle states that an Imperial company, in which the Mother Country and the Dominions have a direct financial interest, may take over the British Government’s airships, and this is likely to be suggested to the Imperial Conference. Mails could be carried to Australia in ten days, compared with thirty-two days by steamship, apart fronji the value to the* Empire of a fleet of 'airships in war time.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.