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{{Quotation2|By 1924, the position had become so serious that the government appointed a committee (later known as the Hambling Committee) to report on the methods of putting British Air Transport on a sound footing. This committee recommended that if British Air Transport were to survive, let alone develop, then one company and one alone must be entrusted with the task. This report led to the formation of Imperial Airways on March the 31st 1924 as the chosen instrument of the government with the mandate to develop British Air Transport on an economic basis.
{{Quotation2|By 1924, the position had become so serious that the government appointed a committee (later known as the Hambling Committee) to report on the methods of putting British Air Transport on a sound footing. This committee recommended that if British Air Transport were to survive, let alone develop, then one company and one alone must be entrusted with the task. This report led to the formation of Imperial Airways on March the 31st 1924 as the chosen instrument of the government with the mandate to develop British Air Transport on an economic basis.
|Author=-|Publication=Aerial Milestones, Imperial Airways 1924 to 1939, Britain Contribution to Air Transport}}  
|Author=-|Publication=Aerial Milestones, Imperial Airways 1924 to 1939, Britain Contribution to Air Transport}}  
{{Quotation2|The one goal that we have always set before Imperial Airways is that they should put their operations on a commercial basis and become self-supporting at the earliest possible moment. With that goal in view, the design and number of the Company's air fleet has never been interfered with by the Air Ministry. These matters have been left to the Company and its expert advisers and have been governed solely by principles of strict business economy. The result has been that, with a far smaller subsidy, the Company has now advanced towards an economic basis of operation far ahead of its Continental rivals.
|Author=Sir Phillip Sassoon|Publication=Some aspects of the Policy of Imperial Airways|Date=8th March 1934}}


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With the grouping of Britain's railways in 1923 to produce the "Big Four" now out of the way, in 1924 the government was able to turn its attention to finishing the similar project for Britain's air transport companies, to form Imperial Airways.

Background

The rapid development of large long-distance aircraft (especially large seaplanes) was driving a similarly-rapid growth of long-distance air travel and air mail delivery services. Britain found itself trying to run an Empire that was increasingly dependent on strategic air routes. Since some of these were only marginally profitable and others were subsidised by foreign powers, this threatened to make British international communcations dependent on foregn companies whose allegiances were ultimately not to Britain. What was neded was a similarly strategic outlook (and appropriate subsidisation) of British international air services.

By 1924, the position had become so serious that the government appointed a committee (later known as the Hambling Committee) to report on the methods of putting British Air Transport on a sound footing. This committee recommended that if British Air Transport were to survive, let alone develop, then one company and one alone must be entrusted with the task. This report led to the formation of Imperial Airways on March the 31st 1924 as the chosen instrument of the government with the mandate to develop British Air Transport on an economic basis.

— , -, , Aerial Milestones, Imperial Airways 1924 to 1939, Britain Contribution to Air Transport,

The one goal that we have always set before Imperial Airways is that they should put their operations on a commercial basis and become self-supporting at the earliest possible moment. With that goal in view, the design and number of the Company's air fleet has never been interfered with by the Air Ministry. These matters have been left to the Company and its expert advisers and have been governed solely by principles of strict business economy. The result has been that, with a far smaller subsidy, the Company has now advanced towards an economic basis of operation far ahead of its Continental rivals.

— , Sir Phillip Sassoon, , Some aspects of the Policy of Imperial Airways, , 8th March 1934

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