The Archive · 1928

NEW BRITISH AIR-PORT

London, Jan. 30.

The great new air-port at Croydon, which comes into use on Monday, embodies the result of nine years experience in the working of regular high-power passenger air ces. As the big Handley-Page-Napier and Silver Wing airliners. of the Imperial Airways arrived from the Continent, yesterday, they were taken to the sheds of the new station, to be randy for their start from the new ground on Monday.

Built at a cost of £260,000, the new terminus has' a huge domed entrance and booking-hall, Customs and emigration inspection halls and, 8.50 ft, high control tower.—British Wireless through Reuter.

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

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