§ 15. Mr. CHORLTONasked the Undersecretary of State for Air if he will give the air speeds of the American postal air services on the principal routes and the equivalent speeds of those run from this country to the Continent and to the East and South Africa, together with the frequency?
§ Sir P. SASSOONIt is hardly practicable to give the information for which my hon. Friend asks within the limits of a Parliamentary answer. I will accordingly communicate with him privately on the subject.
§ Mr. CHORLTONIs it not a fact that American machines are of the order of 50 per cent. faster than the machines that we are building in this country, and is not that a very important thing indeed?
§ Sir P. SASSOONI think that could only be in exceptional cases. As my hon. Friend knows, the conditions of commercial aviation in the United States of America for the last few weeks at any rate have been rather unsettled.