Word: croydon
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...contemplate starting from Croydon on a continental tour in a private machine, advice is to go to the airdrome the day before and get the necessary paper work in order. ... In Rome, where I once landed on a Sunday afternoon on my way to Naples, I was held overnight because the customs officer did not arrive until three hours after I landed. In Brindisi . . . where we landed for gasoline, we were in a hurry to be on our way over to Greece. But we had to remove the cowling from all three engines so that the local customs authority could...
...From Croydon last week flew the first plane of the new London-Africa weekly service which now runs to Mwanza, on the shore of Lake Victoria, and which is soon to be extended to Cape Town. With a change to flying boat at Athens, mail and passengers should reach Mwanza in nine days-a 32-day journey by steamer and train...
Career. Lord Dawson is reputedly the only peer who has succeeded in keeping his age out of the register of the British peerage. This deliberate obscuring of his biography is the only flaw in this otherwise impeccable nobleman. However: he was born March 9, 1864, at Duppas Hill, Croydon, Surrey, England, to Henry Dawson, an architect of sufficient contemporary repute to be elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects. His mother was one Frances Emily Wheeler. Somewhat more than 40 years ago the then Bertrand Dawson was a comparatively poor but comparatively elegant medical student in London. Among...
With a smile on her lips and a severe pain in her stomach. Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, first woman to make a solo flight from London to Australia (TIME, June 2), landed last week from an Imperial Airways liner at Croydon. A "Johnsonian crew'' of more than 50,000 exuberant Britons splashed through mudpuddles to welcome her home...
Britain's Amy. Scarcely noticed by British newsmen when she took off alone in her tiny Gipsy-Moth biplane from Croydon, Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson landed last week at Port Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this...