which influenced the UK’s push for an advanced flying boat. The Short Brothers responded to this demand with the S.23 Empire, which won a contract from Imperial Airways to transport overseas mail.

THE first six of the twenty-nine big flying boats for Imperial Airways Ltd. are now nearing completion at Messrs. Short Bros.’ works at Rochester. The first should be ready during April ...

S.-Bermuda line. And if passengers are eventually to be carried, there are NYRBA’S 20-passenger Commodore flying boats. For its part, Imperial Airways has its new four-motored flying boat (first ...

A quad-engined flying boat that essentially acted like ... It's here where we meet the second party in the Short Empire affair, Imperial Airways. Better known to most people as the predecessor ...

It was via the Imperial Airways flying boat service from Poole. The eight years when Poole was the home of Britain’s seaplanes form a large part of Leslie Dawson’s book Fabulous Flying Boats.

although there was a brief period when both Pan-Am and Imperial Airways flew weekly services, experimenting with flying boats as they endeavoured to set up a viable commercial air service.