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THE TRANSPORTS: With an HS2L (upper) bought from the U.S. Government for $600, Bishop Barker Aeroplanes, Ltd., launched one of Canada’s earliest commercial airlines in the face of mechanical difficulties and lack of public faith just after World War I. Twenty-five years later another good transport plane (lower), the Lockheed Constellation (8000 horse power, 62-person capacity), flew non-stop from Burbank, California, to Washington, D. C., in six hours, fifty-eight minutes.