There was every reason to anticipate that a regular British trans-
Atlantic service would be operating in 1939, when new boats would be completed, declared Captain H. H. Balfour, Under-Secretary df State for Air, in outlining in the House of Commons yesterday the Government's test programme for the next three months.
The programme, he added, had begun with the departure of the Mercury, which, Captain Balfour asserted. would return via the Azores, The fi and a new En tempt double Atlantic in Septembei there would be a further flight by three different types of aircraft in October.
—Reuter.
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