NEWSPAPER AND AEROPLANE.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 40, 17 December 1920, Page 5

NEWSPAPER AND AEROPLANE.

Aerqplanes scored lieavily against time on Derby Day at Home, and the "Daily Mail," using the new method of travel, s'cooped other papers with its Manchester and Paris editions, which had photos of the classic event in the next day's papers. To enable the pictures to reach Paris (250 miles) in time, they were handed, immediately aftcr the close of the race at Epsom, to a motor car passenger, who drove with them to Croydon Aerodrome, where an Airco 'plane was waiting. This left for Paris at once with the undeveloped plates, and reached Le Bourget Aerodrome, near Paris, at 6.45 p.m. A fast car was waiting, and delivered them to the Paris office at 7.30 p.m., photographs being posted up in the Daily Mail Travel Bureau within forty minutes of tne arrival of the plates at Le Bourget. Within a few minutes of the race finish another batch of plates was on the way to the London office of the "Daily Mail" m a specially-fitfced-up delivei-y van, in which they were developed on the journey, and coniact prints made. Carmelite Ilouse was reached at 4.9 p.m., and within 20 minutes halftone blocks were ready for newspaper

printing. The hlocks were taken by car to Cricklewood Aerodrome, where a Bristol "Fighter" was waiting with propeller running. The 'plane, piloted by Major Foot, left at 5.12 p.m. for Didsbury Aerodrome, Manchester, 185 miles away. This was reached at 7.30 p.m. — a spced of over 80 m.p.h. — and at 7.45 p.nft the hlocks were in the, Manchester office, whence the Northern, Scottish, and Irish editions of the "Daily Mail" are circulated. Lord Northchife is to be congratu. lated on his up-to-date organisation, and he has led the way for other newspapers. in the use of the aeroplane.