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INTERNAL AIR MAILS IN FRANCE.
ASCHEME is coming before the French Chambre des Deputes to give a company a monopoly to start internal air-mail services in France, rather on the lines of the British system which is being built up. M. Mandel, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, has, with the approval of General Denain. the Air Minister, tabled a Bill for this purpose.
M. de Massimi is forming the company in conjunction with M. Louis Renault. The first six routes, which may be opened on May 1, will connect Paris with Strasbourg, Le Havre, Life, Nantes, Bordeaux and Toulouse. Probably the new Caudron Simoun will be the aeroplane first used.
If mails be delayed or services interrupted, the. company must pay penalties, and if operation be abandoned, half of the ground equipment will become the property of the State.
I. OF T. INTERESTED IN AVIATION.
QN January 14, in London, Sir Leopold H. Savile, K.C.B., read before members of the Institute of Transport a paper entitled "Aerodromes for Civil Aviation."
Although written before Sir Leopold knew about the arrangement for an Air Transport Conference, in London, the paper dealt in a broad academic way with subjects which were discussed at that Conference as pressing problems of the day.
A few representatives of aviation were present, including Capt. Norman Blackburn (North Sea Aerial and General Transport, Ltd.), Mr. Nigel Norman (Airwork, Ltd.), Mr. Ivor McClure (Automobile Association), Mr. Gordon England (Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd.), Mr. G. 0. Waters (Railway Air Services, Ltd.), and Mr. W. P. Bradbury (L.M.S. Railway).
RADIO SERVICES, 1934 AND 1935.
40RE mobile radio stations on altrailers are likely to he placed in service in •Great Britain by the Air Ministry this year, and their location will depend, to some extent, upon negotiations now proceeding concerning new air lines. Last year, mobile sets were set up at Belfast, Hull (Hedon) and
Portsmouth. The older stations, of course, were those at Croydon, Lympne, Pulharri and Manchester, and the meteorological station at Heston.
Another development this year will be a national aviation meteorological station, possibly somewhere near the geographical centre of these islands, which will broadcast weather reports, etc., throughout the day. FIRST 1935 DEVELOPMENT AT HESTON.
wp have already hinted that some VI, big developments may be expected. this spring, at Heston Airport. The first change to be noticed, this month, has been the addition of a large hangar on the west side of the landing ground, adjacent to the Old Comper works.
The hangar has been built primarily to house tenant companies, such as Brian Lewis and Co., Ltd., Heniys, Ltd., and others which, up to the present, have occupied quite small buildings near the hotel and terminal offices.
The new hangar, when viewed from the hotel, appears to encroach into the landing area. In fact,, it does not do so. The explanation is that, irk the earliest days of Heston, Airwork, Ltd., drew up a design on the American runway system, on which all subsequent development, has been based, and there is ample provision for a large amount of building without endangering the approaches or restricting the width and length of the runways from whatever point the wind may be blowing.
Further details of the Heston developments and building contracts will be published so soon as they are available.