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NEW AIR SERVICES FROM DONCASTER.
Pl.A NEW company named Crilly Airways, Ltd., has been formed to run passenger services from Doncaster municipal airport, and started on March 11 by the ceremonial Ulanguration of a service between Doncaster and London (Croydon). Later, the company will probably concentrate on regular services on two routes, Leicester—Norwich and Doncaster — Leicester — Birmingham — Bristol,
The niKnaging director is Mr. F. Leo Ciilly, a London business man, and he is associated with Mr. McKay, an old war-time pilot, and Mr. Morris, of Norwich. Mr. W. A. Rollason, managing director of Rollason Aircraft Services, Ltd., has been appointed technical director and his company will service the machines at Doncaster, Leicester, Norwich, Birmingham and Croydon.
The company is using two Dragons taken over from Mr. John Sword's fleet. Both have been reconditioned by Rollason's Croydon works and have Marconi radio sets. Two new D.II.84s have been ordered and a Fox Moth is held in reserve. Rollason Aircraft Services, by the way, is now a limited-liability company, with Mr. F. A. Kent as the second director.
AERODROME MOVES IN THE SOUTH-WEST.
IVE are informed by Provincial Air
ways, Ltd., that the company has obtained a lease and option of purchase on an aerodrome close to Torquay, which has been licensed by the Air Ministry. Its north-south run is about 750 yds. and its east-west run about 650 yds. The company's landing ground at Newquay., which is equally big, has also just been licensed.
Weymouth is being omitted from the list of optional calls on this company's London-Plymouth and Hull-Plymouth lines until there is a better landing ground. The company has licensed a field at Rosevidney, near St. Erth, which will serve Penzance and the western extremity of Cornwall.
BARNSTAPLE DEVELOPMENT.
AIR-TRANSPORT activities from Barnstaple aerodrome will be extended this year. Messrs. R. T. Boyd and T. W. J. Nash, who flew an experimental service between their aerodrome at Heanton Court and Lundy Island, last sununer, propose to run a regular daily service this season, as well as three services a s..eek to Cardiff and, perhaps, a service to Plymouth.
They will use the Monospar which was employed last year, also a Short Scion which they have recently bought. The school has two Gipsy I Morns, and these will be available for odd charter flights.
A FAMOUS PILOT'S NEW VENTURE.
WE learn that Mr. T. Campbell Black, who, with Mr. C. W. A. Scott, won the England-Australia Air Race, in October, has formed a private company, Campbell Black (Aviation), Ltd., with a nominal capital of £2,000.
Activities are at present mainly confined to consultant work. He is also the owner of a Puss Moth which is to be used for charter flights.
LORD APSLEY CHAIRMAN OF NORMAN EDGAR AIRWAYS.
THE company which operates the Bristol-Cardiff air ferry, Norman Edgar Western Airways, Ltd., has strengthened its board of directors by making Lord Apsley, D.S.O., MC., M.P., its chairman. He is Member of Parliament for Bristol Central and is a well-known pilot. Lady Apsley, another keen aviator, has also joined the board. NEW LONDON-EDINBURGH SERVICE.
A NEW company has been formed by Lord Grimthorpe, Mr. R. Somerset and Mr. A. E. Hewitt, to be called North-Eastern Airways, Ltd., and to have its registered office and base at Heston Airport. The company hopes to start, on or about April 1, a daily or twice-daily service each way between Heston, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh.
As Edinburgh has no suitable aerodrome, the company has applied for permission to use the R.A.P. aerodrome at Turnhouse. Airspeed Envoys with radio equipment will be used and free ground transport will be provided at ports of call. Provisionally, the London-Edinburgh fare has been fixed at £5 14s. single, £10 return, and the Heston-Edinburgh time is being reckoned at 2 hours 45 minutes.
A POSSIBLE SWANSEA-LONDON SERVICE.
ANEW daily air service between Swansea, Cardiff and London (Heston) may be started, in May, by Bristol Channel Airways, Ltd. Mr. W. R. Bailey, a director of this new company, has, after much difficulty, found a possible aerodrome site on the sea front adjoining the SwanseaReath road and Swansea Bay Gblf Club. Three Swansea business men; Messrs. C. D. Godfrey, Lindsay Eccles and Walter Turner, are interested in the site. The Swansea-Heston flight should take hour, against 4 hours 10 minutes by the fastest train.
The aerodrome site is practically within Swansea town, and buses, trams and trains all stop nearby.
The purchase of a site of 130 acres; near the railway station, for airport . purposes has been decided upon by Torquay Town Council.