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MINISTRY TO MAKE NATIONAL AIR-TRANSPORT SURVEY.
THE Secretary of State for Air, Lord Londonderry, has replied to the delegation which he received, on April 11, from the Aerodrome Owners Association, an off-shoot from the Air Transport Section of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. The delegation asked the Air Ministry to lay down the main air, routes within the United Kingdom, to define the main termini and junctions, to take practical measures to make possible air services on the routes, and to advise local authorities of the provisions that they should make.
As explained from time to time in The Commercial Motor, it was intended that the Aerodromes Advisory Board should undertake this national survey, but Lord Londonderry says that, certain difficulties having arisen, the Air Ministry will itself do the work.
The result should indicate the routes on which regular services can be operated with prospects of success, and regular operation will be possible, provided that aeroplanes and ground equipment are supplied in accordance with the recommendations of the survey.
Once again local authorities are urged to safeguard their future air connections by reserving or buying aerodrome sites (more than one for busy centres), and to consider jointly, their local questions of town planning and road aud rail connections, which affect the convenience of alternative sites.
The Air Ministry will issue a guide on physical aerodrome needs and equipment, but points out that to ensure regular operation, night and day, and in all weathers, a more or less uniform size of aerodrome will be required.
GLASGOW.ISLE OF MAN LINE OPENED.
THE new service between Renfrew and the Isle of Man was started by Northern and Scottish Airways, Ltd., on May 17. For the present it will be run on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, also on demand. On the Isle of Man the Hall Caine airport on Ramsey is used. The fare is £1 17s. 6d. single and E3 5s. return. The machine leaves Renfrew at 9.45 a.m. and reaches Ramsey in 75 mins., leaving there again at 11.30 a.m.
NEW AIR LINE TO THE ORKNEYS.
THE new air route of Aberdeen Airways, Ltd., linking Aberdeen with Thurso and the Orkney Islands, will open on May 27. Mr. Eric L. Gandar Dower, managing director, states that the service will operate first to Stromness, the smaller of the two Orkney Mainland towns, and soon change over to Kirkwall. An aerodrome is being prepared at Grimster Farm, Kirkwall.
This new service will, according to present plans, be followed on June 3 by the opening of the AberdeenHull—London service of the same company. The southward service will run on Mondays and Thursdays, and the northward service on Tuesdays and Fridays, leaving Dyce Airport, Aberdeen at 3.55 p.m. and London (probably Heston) at 4,25 p.m. The Aberdeen—London time, between town centres, is scheduled at 41 hrs., and the fares are to be £8 single and £14 return.
A NEW RAILWAY-OPERATED AIR FERRY.
THE new Southampton—Cowes
Sandown service of Railway Air Services, Ltd. (S.R. Section) is scheduled to run from May 27 until Sept 30. There will be Six journeys each way on weekdays, and four on Sundays. D.H. 84 machines will be used.
INVERNESS—EDINBURGH " POSSIBILITIES.
THE importance of Inverness as an airways .centre was emphasized at a meeting of the town council last week. The capital of the Highlands has the distinction of being the first town to establish a municipal aerodrome in Scotland, and from it mails (without surcharge) are daily sent by air to the Orkneys.
A letter has been received by the town council from Highland Airways, Ltd., staling that developments are rapidly taking place in internal air lines, and soon Inverness will be connected with Edinburgh by air. With the types of aircraft which will be used on such a route, the letter states, the present aerodrome at Inverness is inadequate, and requires extension.
Highland Airways, Ltd., yesterday reopened its Aberdeen—Kirkwall. service, LONDON TO EDINBURGH IN TWO HOURS.
ARECENT flight from Heston to Edinburgh in two hours demonstrates how extremely useful air transport is bound to become as cruising speeds increase. The machine was a Miles Hawk with a de Havilland Gipsy VI 200 h.p. engine. It normally cruises at 165 m.p.h., but a following wind enabled it to average 180 m.p.h.
on this occasion. It was a charter flight made by North Eastern Airways, Ltd., on behalf of the Press.
NEW CRILLY LINE STARTS.
ON May 18 Crilly Airways, Ltd., started a service between Northampton, Leicester and Norwich. On the first trip, in a Dragon, the deputy Mayor of Northampton, the Mayor of Bedford and some Chamber of Commerce officials were carried. This company's services are especially useful to the boot trade.
NEW LIVERPOOL—BRIGHTON LINE STARTS NEXT WEEK.
IT is announced that Railway Air !Services, Ltd. (G.W.R. and S.R. Section) will open its Liverpool—Brighton weekday service on May 27, and it is scheduled to run until Sept. 14. Two D.H. 89 aeroplanes will be employed, one starting from each terminus in the morning and returning in the afternoon.
The morning machine leaves Liverpool at 9.0 a.m., calls at Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and Portsmouth and reaches Brighton, Hove and Worthing at 11.50 a.m. The afternoon machine departs from Liverpool at 4.30 p.m. and reaches. Brighton at 7.20 p.m. In the other direction, a machine leaves Brighton at 9.10 a.m. and arrives at Liverpool at noon, and another leaves Brighton at 4.40 p.m. and reaches Liverpool at 7.30 p.m. At practically all ports of call connections are arranged with other services, so that rapid journeys can be made between about two dozen other points on the Liverpool—Brighton line.
A TYNESIDE MANUFACTURING PROJECT.
AREPRESENTATIVE of the Bellanca aeroplane-manufacturing concern of America, Mr. M. Kronick, visited Tyneside early in May, and, in company with the Lord Mayor of Newcastle (Councillor R. S. Dalgleish), made a tour of inspection of suitable sites for establishing an aircraft works. A site of 200 acres is _ needed. Mr. Kronick stated after the tour that he was impressed with the facilities offered, and foreshadowed that Tyneside would become an aircraft-building centre.
NEW NOTTINGHAM—PLYMOUTH SERVICE.
rIN May 27, a new twice-daily service L./between Nottingham and Plymouth will be inaugurated by Railway Air Services, Ltd. (G.W.R. Section). It will run on weekdays until Sept. 14. Two D.H. 84 aeroplanes will be used, one starting from each terminus in the morning and returning in the afternoon.
A machine will leave Nottingham at 0.10 a.m., call at Birmingham, Cardiff, Torquay (Denbury) and reach Plymouth at 12.5 p.m. Another will leave Nottingham at 4.35 p.m. and reach Plymouth at 7.30. p.m. In the other direction a machine will leave Plymouth at 9.0 a.m. and reach Nottingham at 11.55 a.m., and another aeroplane will leave Plymouth at 4.30 p.m. and reach Nottingham at 7.25 p.m.
At every port of call, except Torquay, connections will be made with other services, so that the whole of the network covering England, as far north as the Isle of Man, is made accessible to stations on the Nottingham—Plymouth line.