Interesting figures of the doings of the London Transport Board since {ook over control of all the buses, tubes and trams of the mettopolitay area, some 2000 square "miles gxlent, are published this week" The Board's responsibilities are epitomized by the "Morning Post™ tha:
Te Board has taken over #2 sepa enormous strength with high aerodynamical effeiency.
Chief restriction in design was the need to conform with the require ments in structural strength, take-off, Janding run and maximum permissible weight that are applied to ordinary commercial aircraft, In the interests of safety, and to encourage the entry of machines which should be practical craft and not just racing freaks, tone condition of the races was that every aeroplane entered should conform substantially to ordinary commercial airworthiness demands. Within these limitalons the Comet de-singers have achieved astonishing success. They have produced an aeroplane which attains maximum el speed of 235 miles an hour and carry a crew of two, the many items of special equipment required by the race conditions, and fuel sume lent for no less than 3,000 miles non-stop. The maximum available power is only about 450 lip. Such 'a craft has obvious potentialities for development as a civilian or military, aeroplane, On the other hand, the startling performance of the huge Douglas air-iner, ridden by Parmentier and Moll, capable of carrying nine people, has caused a general outery that British cevillan aircraft must be speeded up.
It is, however, to be remembered that the extra speed involves enormous outlay in ground service. In respect of acrodromes America has natural advantages denied to British rroplanes flying to India and Singapore, and the subsidy received by American air lines is about fifteen times as great as that granted to Imenol Airways.
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An added blow is the news that Russia, formerly our largest customer of herrings, has suddenly gone back to the Netherlands herring market, which she has not dealt for several years and has ordered 25,000 tons of herrings from a Scheveningen firn.
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