Entirely New Design to Accom modate Forty Passengers:
London, Apr. 8.
The chairman of Handley-Page Ltd., the well known firm of bie aeroplane constructors, at the annual meeting to-ay announced that the firm had secured the con: tract for the supply of the new air-craft required by Imperiat Airways Ltd., for their England India Service.
These machines, he said, would be of an entirely new design, Each would accommodate a total of 49 passengers and crew and would have two big saloons and also a cabia the size of a pullman coach, fitted! with lavatories and a buffet. Each machine would have four engines viving a total of 2,000 hip and would te fitted with slotted wings.
The Air Ministry is paying: Messrs. Handley-Page, Ltd., £100, 000 for the right to use the company'
automatic wing slot davies Rosal Air Forse aeroplanes in The slot and interceptor is development of the plain automatic slot and gives the pilot of a plane note powerful lateral control than with a machine not thus equipped.—Reuter.
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