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IMPORTANT FUSION OF AIR-LINE INTERESTS.
T00 late to be included, except as a hint, in last week's issue, the statement was made that Hillman's Airways, Ltd., which has behind it the Erlanger banking interests, has merged with United Airways, Ltd., and Spartan Air Lines, Ltd„ which are backed by Whitehall Securities Corporation, Ltd.
Each will continue its present activities, but the co-operative working of the two lines to the north will be a boon to passengers. This combine is now a formidable bulwark against possible railway domination of internal air transport, for Jersey Airways, Ltd., Northern and Scottish Airways, Ltd., and Highland Airways, Ltd., are all in some way associated with it.
The rationalization of air-line development is happening comparatively quickly, and one of the chief reasons is that a lesson has been learned from the 1928-1932 history of passenger services by road.
NEWSPAPER CONTRACT GRANTED.
AS anticipated in last week's issue, Messageries Hachette has made a new contract with Commercial Air Hire, Ltd., for the transport of its daily loads of newspapers to Paris, starting from October 6, the day when the Air France contract (hitherto partly subcontracted to Commercial Air Hire, Ltd.), expired.
DEVELOPMENTS AT CROYDON.
INSTEAD of a falling-off in business, Croydon Airport shows several signs of increasing activity with the introduction of the winter schedules on October 6. The traffic hall has now been extended to double its length. Already Commercial Air Hire, Ltd., and-British Continental Airways, Ltd., have opened offices in the new hall.
Services of the international companies between England and the Continent will be particularly good this winter. The German and Netherlands air lines run jointly two daily services 028 each way between London, Amsterdam and Berlin. Imperial Airways, Ltd., has three services daily between London and Paris, including a still later evening departure each way at 7 p.m., on which dinner is served.
The company has also decided to run its London-Budapest service through the winter. Homeward it is flown in the day-time, because there is ample night-flying equipment towards the western end of the route, but outwards a night stop is made at Cologne.
NEW SCOTTISH SERVICES.
ME learn that Mr. Glyn Roberts, of VV Messrs. West of Scotland Air Services, Renfrew, proposes to run a twice-weekly service from headquarters to Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis, and a twice-weekly service to Tiree, Barra and South Uist, calling at Mull on each run. He will use a Short Scion and either Dragons or Airspeed Ferries.
MEETING IN THE AIR.
FOR the first time, a municipal committee has held an official meeting in the air. Blackpool Airport Committee held a meeting in a United Airways machine, a few days ago, on the way back from the Isle of Man, which it had visited to inspect aerodromes.
LATEST SCOTTISH PLANS.
rrVID new de Havilland Rapide eight1 passenger machines, capable of cruising at about 140 m.p.h., have been ordered by Northern and Scottish Airways, Ltd., for service next spring. Since the Renfrew-Campbeltown-Islay service was started on December 31, 1934, and the Renfrew-Isle of Man service on May 17, 1935, 4,000 passengers have been carried up to September 30, besides special charters, ambulance cases and some freight.
Next spring, the company means to develop services to the Western Isles.
ENVOY AVERAGES 206 m.p.h.
rIN September 30, Captain C. Bebb,
011ey Air Service, Ltd., Hew the Airspeed Envoy G-ADBA from Dublin to Croydon (309 miles) in 90 minutes, giving an average speed of 206 m.p.h., ORGANIZING INTERNAL AIRWAYS.
ANOTHER effort is being made by the Society of British Aircraft Constructors to develop the interest of operating companies in its air-transport section. A meeting of operators was held in London, on Tuesday. Fifteen of them have already agreed to subscribe to the cost of running the Air. Registration Board in its first five years; this is the new body to look after airworthiness matters:
The Aerodrome Owners Association, which used to be known as the airports division of the S.B.A.C.'s air transport section, is to have another conference next January.
EVENING CLASSES ON AIRTRANSPORT SUBJECTS.
THE next Air Ministry examination for the second-class navigatOrs' licence will be held in London from October 28 to November 1. Almost immediately afterwards the Guild. of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire will start its evening classes at 61 Cheapside, London, E.C.2, for the winter examinations.
The School of Engineering and Navigation, High Street, Poplar, London, E.14, started its evening classes for the March examination on Octelier 2 and 20 persons attended, not 011e of them a qualified transport pilot. The class is held on Wednesdays and Fridays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Croydon Polytechnic has started its winter course in general aviation subjects, including an hour on air navigation, on Mondays from 7.30 p.m. until 8.30 p.m. Mr. C. W. Martin is the navigation lecturer here, as well as at the G.A.P.A.N., the Poplar classes and the Imperial Airways school. Mr. G. 0. Waters, of Railway Air Services, Ltd., lectures at Croydon Polytechnic on air-line operation on Mondays from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
I.O.M. WINTER SERVICES.
ON week-days, this winter, Blackpool and West Coast Air Services, Ltd., will maintain a daily service each way between Belfast, the Isle of Man, Carlisle, Blackpool and Liverpool., The machine will leave Liverpool at `8' a.m. and fly via Ronaldsway (Isle of Man), Carlisle, Ronaldsway, Belfast, Ronaldsway and Blackpool to Liverpool, arriving there at 3.20 p.m.
There will also be a service at 8 a.m. from the Isle of Man to Liverpool and one at 4 p.m. from there to Blackpool and on to the Isle of Man.
On 'Sundays, a machine leaves Ronaldsway at 11.15 a.m., calls at Blackpool and Liverpool and retarpsfrom there at 1 p.m., calling at Blackpool and reaching the Isle of Man at 2.20 p.m.