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Coll 5/40 ‘Air Route to India (Persian Gulf): Increase in frequency of Imperial Airways Service’ [8r] (15/38)
The record is made up of 1 file (17 folios). It was created in 11 Dec 1934-22 Mar 1935. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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f- period of fifteen years, this period beirjj’; the hiniimi:*
vhioh will suffice to give the operating authorities a
sufficient security of tenure to v-nrr^nt the exceptional
financial outlay and risxs which the scheme will entiilc
The scheme ofj'ers such financial terns ar
should enable the lur;o sum payments to be Kept within
liir;itr. which will ijreclucle any substantial increase in the
normal postal rate 0 The full details are elaborated in
the printed oiemo rand urn, encloses herewith, although it is
realised that this is not in a for. suitable for direct
presentation to the Government of a country outside the
British Km pi re u In addition to- the Krupire Governments
served by the routes, the Governments of the Guclan, Pigypt,
Palestine ana In^i nre being invited to participate«
It is ? however an inevitable corollary of the
Scheme that the various participating Governments should,
as indicated in the printed memorandum, accept
responsibility for providing adequate night flying
facilities unci all other adjuncts for an efficient ground
organisation, to ensure the successful application of the
proposals. It will be obvious that the journey time
schedules can only be achieved, if night flying is fairly
continuous unless machines are to be used which provide
an exceptionally high rate of speed and give longer periods
upon the ground, His I ajesty’s Government, however, as
the result of an exhaustive review of the whole situation,
are convinced that excessively high speeds can be purchased
at too dear a price, for instance, if the average cruising
speed under the Kcheme were to be increased to 200 miles
per hour (as is within the limits of technical
practicability;: the total costs involved would be increased
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The file contains a notification from the Air Ministry (folio 18) dated 10 December 1934, informing the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. of a proposal by Imperial Airways to duplicate their service between the United Kingdom (UK) and India. It also contains an explanatory note prepared for a meeting at the Air Ministry on 22 March 1935, on the necessity of introducing night flying between Cairo and Calcutta early in 1936, in order to facilitate the Empire Air Mail Scheme: see folios 2-6. A draft memorandum for transmission to HM representatives in Egypt, Palestine, and Iraq, outlines the facilities required in these countries to enable night flying: see folios 7-16.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (17 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 19; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 15-18 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/1994
- Title
- Coll 5/40 ‘Air Route to India (Persian Gulf): Increase in frequency of Imperial Airways Service’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:18v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence