Short Empire

Messrs. Short Bros., who have been building all-metal flying boats for over twenty years, recently completed delivery of an order from Imperial Airways for thirty-one Empire machines as illustrated here. Two of these the Caledonia and Cambria, carried out the experimental Trans-Atlantic survey flights of 1937. Seventeen passengers are carried in these boats and two tons of mail. They are powered by four Bristol Pegasus radial air cooled engines of 740 h.p. giving a cruising speed of 164 m.p.h.