AIR TRANSPORT NEWS
Page 49
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
ROAD-TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE DIRECTS AIR COMPANY.
THE newly formed Swansea company, Cambrian Mr Services, Ltd., which proposes to operate, later in the year, from the Swansea-Neath area, has as its managing director Lieut.-Col. R. G. Liewelyn, who is also the principal of Neath and Cardiff Luxury Coaches, Ltd., and of C. K. Andrews, Ltd., a Swansea concern of garage proprietors and commercial-vehicle agents. He is a former chairman of the South Wales and Monmouth divisions of the Motor Agents Association and Motor Trade Association, and a member of the executive committee of the Motor Omnibus Proprietors Association (South Wales).
The nominal capital of the new company is £10,000, EDINBURGH AIRPORT PLANNED AT LAST.
ON May2 Edinburgh Town Council approved the recommendation of the Lord Provost's Committee to set up a municipal airport at Gilmerton."
The procrastination in Edinburgh on the airport question has put the council in a difficult position, and the Royal Air Force authorities have helped matters forward by showing reluctance to allow air-line companies to use the R.A.F. aerodrome at Turnhouse until the municipal authority takes a decisive step to provide a civil airport.
LUNDY SUMMER PROGRAMME.
THE summer service, this year, be
tween Barnstaple and Lundy Island, will be run daily from Barnstaple at 9.30 a.m., returning from Lundy at 10 a.m., and the fare will be 15s. return, plus is. landing fee. Day excursions will be run, leaving Barnstaple at 9.30 a.m. and Lundy at 5 p.m. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays there will be a service from Barnstaple at 10.30 a.m. to Cardiff, returning from the latter town at 11.30 a.m., for which the fare will be 188. 6d. single.
There will be connections to Bristol, Bournemouth, the Channel Islands and Le Touquet, also probably a regular seivice to Plymouth. The Barnstaple operations are run by Messrs. R. T. Boyd and T. W. J. Nash from Heanton Court aerodrome.
NINE APPEALS AGAINST RINGWAY SCHEME.
HESHIRE County Council and eight urban district councils which have appealed against the Air Ministry's sanction for Manchester Corporation's new scheme for an airport at Ringway, will be heard in London on May 23. The Air Ministry is respondent to the appeal and Manchester Corporation will hold only a watching brief.
MUNICIPAL AIRPORT PROGRESS.
AS at March 31 there were 21 municipal airports, as well as seven sites in some stage of development. Moreover, 16 towns were considering the purchase of sites and a further five had reserved sites in their town-planning schemes.
CHANCE FOR WOULD-BE PILOTS.
ASYSTEM of " flying scholarships" has been introduced by the York County Ai.riation Club, Sherburn
Aerodrome. After preliminary tests in various districts, selected pupils will be trained up to the A-licence standard, free of charge, and afterwards they will have the benefit of reduced club membership rates and other charges. Runners-up in the trials will also be eligible for club membership at a reduced fee.
COST OF DONCASTER AIRPORT.
THE debt so far incurred on the Doncaster municipal aerodrome is £26,000. In addition, £8,890, which is equal to a local rate of 44d. in the pound, has been 'spent on the aerodrome out of revenue, and the aerodrome committee has in view the expenditure of a further £11,000 on developments.
Municipal airports, like other public services, are not likely to show their value in direct financial returns for a long time yet, but municipalities are beginning to realize that to be without air service will adversely affect a town's development. IMPORTANT NEW IMPERIAL SERVICE.
A DEFINITE statement has been
made by Imperial Airways, Ltd., about the proposed branch line from Khartoum across to West Africa. This will be opened later in the year, probably using medium-capacity multieitgined aeroplanes of the newer types.
The time from London to Lagos is likely to be about 5i days, allowing two days' travel from Khartoum. The route thence will be by El Father, Vort Lamy, Maidugari, Kura, Kanduna, Ilorin and Lagos. The mail boats to the Gold Coast take about 14 days.
Imperial Airways, Ltd., and Elder Dempster Lines, Ltd., the well-known shipping company, will jointly form Elders Colonial Airways to run feeder services in West Africa. The first will be from Lagos to Accra, extending, so soonas possible, to Kumasi and Takoradi, and, perhaps, to Freetown. These feeder services will be scheduled to link up the mail ships at Takoradi and the Imperal Airways aeroplanes at Lagos with all the chief centres in the Gold Coast and Nigeria.
ANOTHER SOUTH WALES PROJECT.
PORT TALBOT Borough Council is considering the provision of a municipal aerodrome, and the Government has been approached. A site thought to be suitable has been earmarked for the purpose ; this is one which met with approval, it is stated, when, some time ago, a flying circus" visited the town.
RIVALRY IN WEST WALES.
H AVERFORDWEST Town Council, ,1 'Pembrokeshire, seems to be determined that the aerodrome that will serve West Wales shall come within its area. The Automobile Association is submitting a report on various aerodrome sites in the locality that have been suggested, and the town council has decided to have a site on the Broad Haven Road surveyed. A West Wales aerodrome will become important when services to the Irish Free State are started.