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HILLMAN'S AIRWAYS: CHANGES IN ADMINISTRATION.
THE directors of Hillman's Airways, Lid., state that Mr. T. Neville Stack, A.F.C., has been appointed as air superintendent and manager of the company. He started on February 22 his task of reorganizing the operations from Essex Airport in readiness for the extended programme which follows the recent capital issue.
Mr. E. A. J. Hillman, the 22-year-old son of the late Mr. Edward Hillman, has left the board of directors. The Press Association stated that he said last Friday : " I have been asked to resign by the other members of the board,' this decision having been come .to as _a result of complete disagreement over the future policy of the company which I had put forward in conformity with what I knew to be my late father's
ishes."
The directors state that no question of policy has arisen. There has been no departure from the policy of the late Mr. Hillman, but changes in the administration have been found essential.
ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT IN AERIAL ADVERTISING.
ASECOND company has been formed to fly aeroplanes carrying Neon signs for advertising purposes. This is the Aeronautical Advertising Co., Ltd.; 9, Southampton Street, London, W.C.1, the directors of which are Mr. A. 0. Shuttleworth, Mr. A. J. Edmunds, Mr. H. E. Gold and Capt. J. T. Keeping, M.C. Messrs. Shuttleworth and Edmunds are well known at Heston as the operators of Warden Aviation, Ltd., a private-charter concern which was formed last year.
For the present scheme a Dragon has been purchased. This will have two-way radio telephony and Will carry two pilots, both being licensed to operate this type of wireless installation. The company intends to use the original high-tension Neon signs of voltages up to 10,000 or 20,000, constructed by Claude-General Neon Lights, Ltd. These signs have a high penetrating power and 4-ft. letters are said to be legible up to 4,000 ft.
COMPETITION AT BLACKPOOL.
ANEW company, a subsidiary to Whitehall Securities Corporation, Ltd., has arranged with Blackpool Corporation to lease the municipal aero
drome at Stanley Park. (Blackpool has two municipal aerodromes, and that at Squire's Gate is used by other operating concerns.) The new company will use Blackpool as a base of operation.
Full details of the lines to . be developed cannot yet be published, but a start will be made with a connection to the Isle of Man, and, at the request of Blackpool Corporation, an air line will be established between London and Blackpool. The aerodrome will re
main " open " on a landing-fee basis. Whitehall Securities Corporation, Ltd., holds one-third of the share capital of Jersey Airways, Ltd.
CHARTER FLIGHTS TO SPAIN SIMPLIFIED.
COMP AM ES' operating charter services experience a good many demands for rapid passenger travel to
Spain. Hitherto, such flights have always been impeded by the need for obtaining a permit from the Spanish Embassy, London, which involved stating in advance the route to be followed and the arrival and departure date for each intended stopping place. Now that Spain has adopted the International Air Convention, British airmen will be able to fly to Spain without obtaining such permits.'
SWANSEA PROSPECTS HOPEFUL. r'r HE report of the experts, Messrs.
Norman, Muntz and Dawbarn, on aerodrome sites in the Swansea area is to be placed before Swansea Corporation this month.
Speaking to Swansea Rotary Club, Mr. Norman Edgar, of Norman Edgar Western Airways, Ltd., Bristol, explained his provisional plans for running services from South Wales to the Continent, from May 1, arid said that he hoped to be able to Ianci. at Swansea, as well as Cardiff.
SHETLAND PROSPECTS.
SHEM AND County Council has been considering proposals by Aberdeen Airways, Ltd., and others, to run air services from the North of Scotland to Shetland this summer. The Air Ministry is being asked to provide a mobile radio station at Sumburgh, and may be prepared to do so.
NEW COMPANY TO RUN LONDON. GUERNSEY SERVICE.
WE are informed by Sir Alan. Cobham, K.B.E., A.F.C., that, in conjunction with Guernsey Aero Club, he is forming a new company to be called London, Guernsey and South Coast Air Lines, Ltd. A regular air service on the Guernsey-Bournemouth-Southampton-Croydon route will be run so soon as the landing ground at Lerree is prepared—probably within a few weeks. He has not yet decided the type of machine to use, but the Airspeed Envoy seems to be the most likely.
MANCHESTER AIRPORT: LAST OPPOSITION OVERCOME.
ro February 20, six days after Mankfchester City Council was advised that the Ministry of Health and the Air Ministry confirmed its order for compulsory purchase of the Ringway aerodrome site, a member of the council unsuccessfully proposed a resolution that the entire scheme be dropped. Be argued that all reasonable air-transpott needs in Manchester could he met by Speke Airport, Liverpool.
HELPING THE SHOE TRADE.
AN air-taxi service has been ininaugurated by Midland Airways, Ltd., from Sywell Aerodrome, five miles from Northampton. The headquarters are equidistant from the three large boot-manufacturing towns of• Northampton, Kettering and Wellingborough.
The scheme especially caters for the conveyance of travellers' samples and the express dispatch of consignments of boots and shoes. A two-seater guarantees 150 m.p.h., whilst a three-seater machine gives a speed of 100 m.p.h. The rates are 6d. per mile per passenger for a minimum of two passengers,