The three extra Empire boats will Dung the total" Imperial Airways order for these magnificent craft t0 S31, 24 of which have already been, de. livored. "Incidentally, no. seaplane manufieturer in the world has nearly approached the rate and eMleiency of output attained by. the Short company in building.
"The flying-boats have taken over many of the main Empire routes. The arenter load capacity they ford is shown by the volume of mails they have curried between England and Aftien ginee the air mail scheme, under which all frst-class mail carried by air without surcharge, was inaugurated During. the brit initial portod which "ended on October 30 an average of about 5% tons of mails for African. destinations was des patched by alr from England each week. Even in this dimeult time, when the organization had not settled down to the work and some hold~ ups were inevitable, the services reached creditable standard of gularity. © Out of the rst 48, Nights fo Enst Afrien $0 arrived at Kisumu on the due date, and on only one of the nine remaining flights did the delay exceed one day.
'AL this point on the Empire network the alr service has reditced to ess than one-third the time needed to get.a letter from home and to send a reply. And there is no doubt that this time wil be stir further shorten= no distant date,
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