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8th November 1935, Page 200
8th November 1935
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STRIKING NEW D.H. MODELS.

CURE; months ago The Commerciad

Motor published, before • any other newspaper, the statement that the 'cle Havillarid company was 'producing modified versions of the •forsi-engined Express Air Liner. Details of the,two improved models (both. to he called D.H,86a, for the time being) are now

available. • One will continue to have standard Gipsy Six' engines with •fixed-pitch airscrews. The other will have higherpowered Gipsy Six engines of a new series, with higher compression ratio and using fuel of higher octane value ; these engines will have de Havilland controllable-pitch airscrews.

The airframes of both types are identical, and improvements will permit of higher payload than in the old D.H.86, even when the standard _engines are fitted. With 190 gallons of petrol the payload, with the standard engines, will be 1,702 lb. ; with the. Series II engines, 2,192 lb. The cruising speed with the standard engines will remain at 140-145 m.p.h. With the Series II engines the continuous operating speed at 7,000 ft. will be 155-160 m.p.h.

THREE COMPANIES COMBINE TO KEEP UP AIR RATES.

THREE of the companies at Croydon 1 Airport which specialize in Privatecharter work have agreed to quote equal rates per mile for charter trips with corresponding machines. The companies are 011ey Air Service, Ltd., Surrey Flying Services, 'Ltd., and Wrightways, Ltd. All of them operate de Havilland Dragons, a type which is popular for charter. work.

In air transport, operating costs are more precisely known than in road and • D46 rail transport, and the difficulty of regularizing rates is not so severe: Road-transport moves in this direction have been rendered impossible by the task of fixing charges for garaging, maintenance, etc., for companies, the arrangements of which are not comparable.

CROYDON'S SPECIAL AIR-MAIL 'ARRANGEMENTS. _ rROYDON is the first town in the country to have its own direct airsnail service to and from the Continent. The arrangement started last Monday. There are 12 collections daily, and one can post a letter in Croydon within half an hour of an aeroplane leaving the airport. Letters from Croydon are no longer taken to London for sorting, so that the town has the best Continental air-mail service of all towns in England.

NEW I.o.M. MAIL CONTRACT.

AS from November 1, the mails between Liverpool and the Isle of Man, which have hitherto been carried by the pioneer Company, Blackpool and West Coast Air Services, Ltd., are being transported by British Airways, Ltd. This is the new and powerful company fOrmed by the amalgamation of Hillman's Airways, Ltd,, United Airways, Ltd., Spartan Air Lines, Ltd., Highland Airways, Ltd., and Northern

and Scottish Airways, Ltd. • Spartan Cruisers will be used, leaving Liverpool (Speke) at 8 a.m. and Ronaldsway at the same time every morning. They are expected to take about 400 lb. of mail on each journey. Passengers are not carried on this service, but there are two passenger and freight 'services each way daily at the old fares of 30s, single and 50s. return. IRISH SEA WINTER SCHEDULE.

THE winter timetable of Blackpool and West Coast Air Services, Ltd. (which is associated with 011ey Air Service, Ltd., Croydon), gives three services daily on..weekdays between Liverpool and the Isle of Man direct, also two daily between Liverpool, Blackpool and the Isle of Man, On Sundays there is one service daily from the • Isle of Man to Blackpool and Liverpool and return.

On Mondays; Wednesdays' and Fridays a machine leaves the Isle of Main for Carlisle, and then; goes to Belfast arid returns. The times are arranged so that on these days a 'passenger may travel conveniently from Liverpool to Belfast or Carlisle or back again, calling at the Isle of Man. The times . from the Isle of Man are 40 minutes to Belfast, an hour to Carlisle, 45 minutes to Blackpool, and an hour to Liverpool. The Liverpool—Blackpool time is 20 minutes.

NEW NIGHT SERVICE FROM PARIS.

FROM November 6, Hillman's Airways, Ltd., which is now one of the constituent •concerns in British Airways, Ltd., is running an evening service from Paris. Essex Airport is not equipped for night flying, because the company is moving, about December 15, to Gatwick Airport.

Until that date, the new evening service will fly into Croydon Airport, leaving Paris (Le Bourget) . at ..6.15 p.m.. and reaching Croydon at , 7.45 p.m. The machine (D.11,86 aircraft are

used on this line) win . over to Essex Airport next morning and-pick , up passengers for the, first of the tWo daily services to Paris.

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Locations: Blackpool, Belfast, London, Liverpool, PARIS, of Man

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