ENCIRCLING THE GLOBE.
Gigantic Service Airships. AIR-MARSHAL’S forecast. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received March 24, 11.55 p.m.) OTTAWA, March 23. Gigantic airships, with lines -..n----circling the globe, with fast airplanes feeding them, were outlined by AirVice Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker (Director of Civil Aviation in tho British Air Ministry) in an address before the Empire Club, Toronto. He declared that Britain was developing two gigantic airships with a capacity nf 5,000,000 feet, for service between India and London, -which would eventually include Australia. This, in turn would bring Canada within twenty-five or thirty hours of England. The new ships would carry one hundred passengers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 March 1926, Page 9
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106ENCIRCLING THE GLOBE. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 March 1926, Page 9
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