BIDDLECOMB DISCUSSES AERIAL TRANSPORTATION

"No transport line in Europe is self-supporting, they are all subsidized by the government," were the words of Captain C. H. Biddlecomb, former operating director of the Colonial Air Transport Company, who will lecture in the Business School today and tomorrow.

"The United States is not behind time in aviation at all, but the government is giving subsidies to the mail rather than to passenger service."

Captain Biddlecomb continued by describing the peculiar system used in Germany, by which the individual municipalities rather than the central government tend to support the aerial transport routes through subsidies. "Germany," he said, "has also made rapid strides in the technical development of air craft, being forced by the limiting clauses of the Peace Treaty to obtain maximum efficiency with minimum horsepower."

It is the belief of Captain Biddlecomb that the ultimate salvation of commercial aviation lies in the development of strong combinations rather than of small individual units.

"In Europe air mail-service still lags because international jealousies make it difficult to devise a plan to carry mail on a sound, economic basis."

Commenting on the two Zeppelins that are being built in England, Captain Biddlecomb remarked that they were each equipped with six Rolls Royce engines of 360 H.P. Sleeping accommodations for 100 people will also be made. The plan is to run a regular service schedule between cities of the British Empire. In 1929 the first connections are to be established between London, India and Canada.