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ZEPPELIN AIRSHIPS.

The zeppelin lighter-than-air main plant is located at Friedrichshafen. The main Zeppelin Company is not at present engaged in the manufacture of any lighter-than-air equipment. This information was procured from Dr. Eckner and Mr. Dorr, the Directors of the Zeppelin Company. Dr. Dorr has been chief designer and engineer of the Zeppelin Company for twenty two years. The company has a very small operating organisation at present, principally made up of the heads of departments. one building has been entirely given over to museum purposes where all the successive stages of Zeppelin experimentation, designs, and models of power plant installation in Zeppelin units are assembled in operating fashion, so as to demonstrate to interested parties peculiar functions of clutches and pertinent units of power plant installation. The Directors are very much concerned over the possibility of receiving an order from the United States Navy for a large Navy type Zeppelin, but realize that negotiations for the construction of this ship will probably be drawn out for a long time.

Dr. Eckner claims that semi-rigids are more efficient

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