AIR TRANSPORT NEWS
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IMPORTANT NORMAN EDGAR DEVELOPMENT.
Mr. Norman Edgar, managing director of Norman Edgar Western Airways, Ltd., who started his BristolCardiff ferry service on September 26, 1932, and has run regularly ever since without the slightest mishap, has made another important step of co-ordination with another transport concern.
The new association is with the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., the builder and operator of Bristol's motorbuses. Through bookings can be made at the main tramways centre, at the travel bureau in Prince Street, and at the offices in Bath, Weston super Mare, Wells, Gloucester and Cheltenham.
The company has also put into operation a smart coach, specially built for the work, which runs between Bristol and the Airport eight times daily, including Sundays, connecting with the Norman Edgar air services.
These services are run in co-operation with the railway air service on the Plymouth Plaidon-Cardiff-Birmingham., Liverpool route, andwith the P.S.I.o.W.A. services between Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, the Isle of Wight and London. The flight from Cardiff to Bristol is made in 18 minutes, and from Bristol to Bournemouth in about 40 minutes, the whole journey being covered in an hour.
Bank Holiday Traffic.
All the principal internal air lines recorded substantial Bank Holiday traffic. Jersey Airways, Ltd., sent eight Dragons to the Channel Islands -twice daily on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday. (This company carried its 10,000th passenger on Saturday.) The Spithead Ferry carried 600 passengers on Monday.
The Hillman London-Belfast line serves mainly business people, but the London-Paris line carried 171 passengers between Friday and Tuesday. The Thames ferry carried 68 on Sunday and 74 on Monday between Southend and Rochester—this is •a new service. No railway air-service figures are issued, but all lines did " very well," and the Liverpool-Plymouth service could not cope with all the traffic available. Provincial Airways, Ltd., carried 75 persons on the London-Plymouth line between Friday and Monday.
Isle of Wight : The Week's Traffic.
In the week to August 2, Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation, Ltd., carried 1,232 passengers between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, and 203 passengers on the London-Isle of Wight service.
• Hillman's Remarkable Figures.
In the week to August 3, Hillman's Airways, Ltd., carried 250 passengers on the London-Paris route, which is now being flown by Dragon Six air-. craft in the reduced time of 90 minutes. In the week Si passengers were carried on the London-Belfast line.
The Railways and the Mails. •
The question of giving the internal air-mail contracts to non-railway operators, as well as toRailway Air Services, Ltd., which was dealt with at some length in our associated journal, The Aeroplane, on August 1, is stirring the minds of many interested in British air transport, including the Parliamentary Air Group.
• In the House of Commons, on July 30, Mr. Hutchison asked the Postmaster-General whether, in deciding on giving the air-mail contracts to Railway Air Services, Ltd., he took into consideration similar services which could be rendered by private air-line companies, and whether he asked them to tender?
Sir Kingsley Wood replied that the use of the inland air services which have been placed at his disposal by the railway organization is purely experimental. He assured Mr. Hutchison that before final arrangements were made clue regard would be had to any suitable air service. THE NEW LONDON-GLASGOW SERVICE.
Some details are now announced of the new air service of Railway Air Services, Ltd., between London and Glasgow. This will probably start on August 20, and the points of call will be Birmingham, Manchester, the Isle of Man and Belfast. There will be one flight in each direction on week-days.
De Havilland D.II.86 four-engined liners will be used. Each will accommodate 10 passengers and will be manned by a pilot and a first officer, the latter acting as wireless operator and attending to the general comfort of passengers.
There. will be a compartment for mails and freight, and, of course, machines' will fly the air-mail pennant. The usual facilities of the railways for their air-service passengers will be offered.
Leeds-Paris Twice Daily.
On August 6, London, Scottish and Provincial Airways, Ltd., started regular operationtwice daily in each direction, on the Leeds-NottinghamHeston-Le Touquet-Paris route. The departures from Leeds are at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m., with arrival at Paris at 1.40 p.m. and 6.40 p.m. The LeedsParis fares are 46 6s, single and 411 lls. return. The Leeds-London fares are 42 10s. single and 44 10s. return.
The London agent is Currie Lunn, Ltd., 128, Wigmore Street; the Leeds agent, R. Barr (Leeds), Ltd., Corn Exchange; and the Paris agent, Maurice F'ina.t, Ste. pour le Developpement d'Aviation, Le Bourget.
Banco News.
During the week-end (Friday, July 27, to Monday, July 30) the British Air Navigation Co., Ltd., booked 150 passengers for the P.S.I.o.W.A. London-Isle of Wight service and carried 40 passengers on the Le TouquetDieppe service and 11 passengers on the Deauville line.