The Archive · 1937

Regular Air Mail Across Atlantic

Negotiations Will Follow Test Flights

New York, July 14.

Following the successful test flights across the Atlantic conducted by Pan-American Airways and Imperial Airways, Mr. James M. Mead, Chairman of ihe Post Office Committee, has announced that legislation will be enacted in a few weeks to establish regular air service deliveries in Lon. don and New York in 24 hours. The cost per letter, he adds, will be 20 cts, per half oz.

The Air Ministry in London announces that the Pan-American airliner Clipper LI, which is now in Southampton, will take off from Foynes, Ireland, on the first stage morning. her return journey to America this

The Imperial Airways' giant flying-boat Caledonia, which left New Yor for Montreal on Monday on the first stage of her return trans-Atlantic journey, is on her way to Botwood, Newfoundland, which she will leave for Foynes on Thursday evening Reuler.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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