Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920s. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 December 2013

The Romance of a Modern Airway










BY
HARRY HARPER
author of
"The Evolution of the Flying Machine"
"Twenty-Five Years of Flying"
"The Steel Construction of Aeroplanes," etc.

With an Introduction
by
Air Vice-Marshal
SIR SEFTON BRANCKER, O.B.E., A.F.C.
(Director if Civil Aviation)

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., LTD.

[No date inside, but I'm guessing late 1920s, early '30s?]

"Although it has been most convenient, in the preceding brief description, to take one of the well-known "Argosy" machines of Imperial Airways, it is probable that before these lines are being read the first of the new fleet of Handley Page super-giant air liners will have come on to the Continental and Indian services.  These new aeroplanes, which I have mentioned briefly before, will have luxuriously-equipped saloons as large as those of railway Pullman-cars.  These saloons will be divided into two compartments each seeting twenty passengers, while between the two will be a completely equipped cocktail-bar!  In spaciousness and luxury these new 2,000 horse-power air expresses will open up a new era in airway operation."

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Transactions of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1927




















Volume 35.  Annual report, published by the "Principle Office of the Society, Engineering Societies Building, 29 West 39th Street, New York, N.Y., U.S.A."