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BOLTON AND PAUL.

Bolton and Paul built a great number of Sopwith machines during the War and have now turned their attention to all-metal construction.

Their most interesting machine, however, is a stick and wire machine known as the P-8. It is a convertible passenger, mail, or bombardment machine. Its characteristics follow:

Crew --------------------------------    Pilor and seven passengers
Mail --------------------------------    500 lbs.
Engines, 2 Hapier Lion
water cooled, fitted with
four-bladed propeller ---------------      9' 6"
diameter performance ----------------    450 h.p.
Ground speed ------------------------    149 m/h.
Speed at 10,000 ft. -----------------    136 m/h
Ceiling ----------------------------- 25,000 ft.
Climb to 15,000 ft. -----------------     15 min.
Weight, machine empty ---------------  5,170 lbs.
Fuel --------------------------------    840 lbs.
Load --------------------------------  1,870 lbs.
Total weight ------------------------  7,880 lbs.
Load per square foot ----------------      6.75 lbs.
Gas ---------------------------------    100 gallons.
Oil ---------------------------------     12 gallons.
Endurance, loaded, at
10,000 ft. --------------------------      2 1/4 hrs.

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