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L.M.S. AIR POLICY DEFINED.
AT -the 13th annual meeting of the L M S . Railway Co., last Friday, the chairman, Sir Josiah Stamp, C.C.S., G.B.E., said that on the London-Belfast-Glasgow air service, which the company continued to run throughout 1935, through the medium of Railway Air Services, Ltd., the regularity was 91.7 per cent. Including the Manchester-Liverpool-Blackpool-Isle of Man service (sponsored by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. and the L.M.S.), about 360,000 .aeroplane-miles were flown during the year on behalf of the L.M.S.
Sir Josiah stated that the company's policy is, to continue these services and to in experience as to the place which air lines are likely to occupy in the future, in the co-ordinated system of land,. water and air travel which the railways can offer.
CRUISES BY AIR : MRS. MOLLISON'S NEW PROJECT.
WITH the object of running air
VV cruises on lines similar to ocean cruises, Mrs. Amy Mollison is registering a company, Air Cruises, Ltd., of which she will be managing director and chief pilot. The registered office is at 21, I3ucklersbury, London, E.C.4. The flying base will be at Heston.
• A luxuriously equipped db Havil-: land Dragon is on order. The fares will include first-class hotels, road transport. and all sight-seeing, and prOgrammes
B38 will be elastic to the common wishes of the passengers. Activities should start in May.
FAST MACHINES FOR PRIVATE CHARTERS.
'THE value of using fast aeroplanes 1 for charter work was shown, a few, days ago, when an American doctor, due in Paris at 6 p.m., for an urgent operation, missed the British Airways service at 1.45 p.m.
• The Miles Merlin of Birkett Air Service, Ltd., leaving at 3.45 p.m., was able to reach Paris in just 100 niins.
NEW MANUFACTURING BASE?
LUTON Borough Council has appointed Chamier, Gilbert-Lodge and Co„ Aldwych House, London; W,C.2, as consultant on a scheme to prepare an aerodrome for the town. It is thought that such an aerodrome would be particularly suitable for aircraft manufacture and it will be laid out specially for that purpose.
LATEST SCOTTISH MOVES.
OFFICIALS of Northern and Scottish Airways, Ltd., and the Air Ministry recently visited Skye in connection with a proposal to transfer the present landing ground at Glenbrittic to Skeabost, about eight miles from Portree.
The company has also been negotiat-. ing with the aviation committee of Stranraer Town Council, with a view to securing land for an aerodrome.
MAKING MANCHESTER AIRPORT. ITTORK on Manchester's new airport W site is progressing under the direction of Mr. J. B. L. Meek, the city engineer. The contractor is the En-ToutCas Co. (System). Ltd., Leicester. All the thorn hedges and 110 trees have been uprooted. Ponds have been cleared, but not yet filled in. Two mechanical navvies have dug a main drain, the drain has been laid, and a " bull-doser," a track-laying machine rather like a snow plough, is refilling the trench.
Levelling the initial landing ground (190 acres) will take a year from now. Grass will he sown and in another year the ground will be ready for use. For levelling, about 200,000 cubic yds. of earth must be moved.
This operation is being carried out by track-laying scooper trucks. The scooping is done by a steel blade in the floor of the track, which is pulled by a crawler tractor, and picks up about 4 tons of soil in a minute. The soil is then spread by the " bull-doser."
CHELTENHAM-GLOUCESTER AERODROME SOON.
'WORK is proceeding on the site of VV the Cheltenham-Gloucester Aerodrome at Staverton, which,, it is expected, will he opened in July. Approval has been given to the Westgate Motor House Co. (Gloucester), Ltd.„ the future lessee of the airport, to move its buildings on to the acrodronie,