Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 10 | Britain Equips Airships for Passenger Service

BRITAIN EQUIPS AIRSHIPS FOR PASSENGER SERVICE London. Feb 12 The British aviation avi-ation authorities have announced Ihat I the R-3C, one 'of the four airships to be used for experiments in commercial work, will have a passenger saloon with capacity for fifty persona This will be the first British airship to be full (quipped fo'- pai.-'i'ner uerviee The R-86 is now nearlhg completion ! at Glasgow. Four airships will be used In the experiments. ex-periments. The others are the British R-37, and the German 1,-71 ami L-ijl, The firsi tests are expected io take place on the route to Kgypt. Malta and back. If the experiments prove the practlabillty of using airships fot tip-carriage tip-carriage of goods and passengers, the service may be started fairly early this ; ear.