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THE CHINA MAIL,
GYRO COMPASS
CLAIM FOR WAR-TIME
IMPROVEMENTS
CORRECTION OF ERRORS
London--The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, presided over by Lord Tomlin, continued their hearing at the Privy Council Court, Downing- street, of claims made by Sir James Henderson, Mr. S. G. Brown, Mr. A. L. Rawlings, and Mr. E. Kilbura Scott, for awards in respect of improvements in gyroscopic compassus adopted by the Admiralty during the war. The hear ing has already occupied some days. Counsel were:-For Sir J. Hender- son, Mr. K. Shelley; for Mr. S. G. Brown, the Hon. Stafford Cripps, K.C., Mr. Trevor Watson, and Mr. Drew; for Dr. Rawlings, Mr. D. H. Corsellis and Mr. Reginald Jones. Mr. Kilburn Scott was not represented.
Mr. Wilfred Grôzne, K.C., Mr. James Whitehead, K.C., and Mr. J. M. McEwen appeared for the Admirally,
Mr. D. Corsets, on behalf of Mr. Rawlings, asked leave to recall Sir James Henderson, who had given evid-}
the last occasion, for one
ence of question.
Lord Tomlin: One question only, then.
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Replying to a question by Lord Tomlin, he said that before he received the letter from the Admiralty, he reali ised that the floating ballistic was faulty in design.
Mr. Corsellis (to Sir James): How lont the solution within 24 hours of re- was it that you left making your ap-ceiving the letter from the Admiralty." plication to the Royal Commission for 9 or 10 years?
Sir James: I could not make an ap plication in the first instance until the apparatus had been used, and in 1920 when I was given a new agreement by the Admiralty I was promised a settle. ment by the Royal Commission for all my past work. I applied to the Royal Commission under several heads.
Lord Tomlin: The only question is why yen did not make application be- fore. When was it first used?
Sir James: In 1919 I think it was, Lord Tomlin: The how do you.ac. count for the expiration of time by ween 1919 and the date you made your application?I applied to the Royal Commission, but eventually had to withdraw it.
mnade
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Lord Tomlin. Do you say that the Admiralty are using a device which as one of produces the same result your devices?—Yes.
And that is, therefore within your invention?It is within my invention.
Mr. Greene then proceeded to ques- tion Sir Jaines about speed error, and asked, "in gunnery what we want to do is to get your gyro axis as far as you can fixed on a definite point? Yes, that is one of the requirements. serviceable you must eliminate ballastic If a gunnery compass is going to be
deflection?—Yes.
Mr. Greene apologised to Sir James case he was not making himself
clear.
Mr. K. Shelley (representing Sir James-The application was first, understand, in 1926,
Lord Tomlin.-Very well, that exlary," he said amid laughter. Many "I realise the defects of my vocabu-
of these words are entirely unfamiliar to me."
plains it.
Cause of Deviation Due To Error
Answering Mr. Wilfrid Greene, K.G., for the Crown, Sir James said that he
Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the the cause of the deviation due out disclosing confidential inforination.
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rolling error in the early spring of
1915, or late in 1912.
clear, but it is difficult to answer with- Sir James. Your questions are quite
This subject is at present confidential. Mr. Greene. From whom did you lose anything confidential about this.
Mr. Greene. do not think we shall learn that fact?-From casual conver- sation in the mess at Greenwich by any claim merely on the ground that Sir James zaid that he did not make Greenwich. I was a professor at he suggested the idea of an unstable
gyro in connection with gyro
naval officers.
Mr. Greene. How did you discover the source
of rolling error?—I dis- covered it for myself.
passes.
com
3 p.m..
p.m.
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The practical navigational compass which he constructed was, he said, a Sir James said he was not the first most successful experimental person to discover this. He had heard pass. It was running for only three of Professer Martinson, but he did not months, but it was ready for re-design agree
that the professor discovered the for sea-going purposes. source of rolling error.
Mr.
Desk Ransacked
Greene. Professor Martinson knew it before you?--I think it was the James Counsel in opening had said,. Mr. Greene spoke of the fact that Sir case, but I am speaking from memory.
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The evidence was so technical at that Sir James' desk had been opened times that Lord Tomlin had to ask for during his absence and ransacked. an explanation of one of Mr. Greene's "Are you making suggestions against questions. He had apparently mis-anybody?" he asked. understood one of Sir James Hender "No." replied "Sir Janies. "Sealed son's answers, and Mr. Greene had to packets in the desk were cut open with appeal to Sir James to help him to ex-with this matter. I did not make a a knife, but they had nothing to do Later Lord Tomlin asked: "So far search at the time, but I could not cons
I understand it you have made these ceive why it was ransacked," suggestions?
"When I went on holiday, I took my Sir Jamea-Yes, my lord.
private papers from home and locked Lord Tonilin. Do you say that when them in my desk Greenwich because once it has been ascertained that you the building was subjected to police can get rid of this particular error by supervision night and day. means of either of the three methods Lord Tomlin. Did you communicate sgested, any mechanical device for with the authorities"-No. affecting any one of those three pur- poses is csine your invention?That was a serious matter, but there were mittee is to be organised to formulate is my point of view.
other serious matters at the sante Lord Tomlin, You say: "I
time. the trouble, and having realised that, so work when he attended the trials "Mauretania's selected crew. ciate what the forces are which cause knew nothing about Professor Martin-tery.
Sir James told Mr. Shelley that he having come to that conclusion, then nobody in the world can use mechanical device which produces this
appre-
should he held on Monday, September 2. under the auspices of the associa tion. Steamship companies of all fags entering New York are invited to en-
It was rather a serious matter?-Itter crows. An international. com.
ITI 1913
any
Dr. James Gible Stewart who was
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vention?" would not go so far as Bar and Stroud during 1916 and 1917, that. But I was the first to think of it. said that two naval officers came there Lord Toralia. I am only wanting to on one occasion, and what stuck in his anderstand what is in your mind. mind was that they spoke about Mr. Si James-It is in my mind that Brown using liquid control. He did a method would infringe my not know before that anybody else be- Correspondence With Admiralty Mr. Greene then question Sir James about correspondence which had pass ed hetween him and the Admiralty.
such patent.
sides themselves was using liquid can tro them,
case and Mr. Brown then gave evidence. This closed Professor Henderson's
He said that he had been engaged in regard to the cable and telephone in-. inventions all his life, particularly with
Perry's invention left in the profes
Interests in Professor
not sor's will had been assigned to him... Mr. Greene When once it became said, he and Professur Perry were con For two years until August, 1916, he known that the fault was owing to in-aidering how they could cure compass sufficient stabilisation, the solution was errors, and were submitting sug perfectly obvicus to anyone was it not?tions to the Admiralty
sugges -No:
The Commission again adjourned.
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He did not agree that it was ob vious from one of the letters that the ductries. trouble about the design of the float ing ballastic was that it was sufficiently stabilired.
Asked about the "merit" of his in- vention, Sir Jaines said: "My merit lay. ir foreseeing the fault and in pointing
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