TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1933,
Aviation, Engineering and Building.
BETTER HOUSING IN U.S.S.R.·
Special Tax To Be Imposed.
Moscow.
The slight slowing down of the!
five-year programme will second permit a greater effort toward im- proving the general living condi- tions and cultural facilities in the towns and villages, the Government has decided, and work along that line is to begin at önce.
Better housing will be provided and greater impetus will be given to cultural development, thus giving small town workers more of the benefits enjoyed in the cities.
Enter The Baby Airplane
Taking Off From The Suburbs
minutes
car....
REALISING A PROPHECY
(By Col the Master of Sempill.)
THE CHINA MATL.
NEW AIRSHIP WORK MODERN HYDRAULIC
BEGUN
Improved Ground
Clearance.
* OPERATION
EARLY MACHINE-TOOL
APPLICATION
table
BATHS REBUILT.
CARRYING CATTLE BY AIR
Supplying New Guinea Gold Fields.
Sydney, N.S.W.
Shortly after-
an hour the
Before the ad.......
A new method of transporting In aircraft construction the out-
cattle has been adopted in New standing development during 1982|
Guinea. This is by seroplane. is the commencement of work on
How a bull and a cow were carried the Te-15 airship, a non-rigid type
from the coast to the Bulalo gold- of 360,000 cubic feet capacity, with
The advantages and methods of complete the assembly. The de-fields by air was described by a two geared, air-cooled engines pro- ducing 700 horsepower for driving application of hydraulic power to sign is simplided by utilising pumps director of Guinea Airways Ltd., specially designed three-blade pro-machine-tool operation were discus- of the variable-delivery type, but who recently visited the Mandated pellers.
"Another feature of this sed recently in a paper by Mr. H. C. gear pumps can be employed on cer- Territory of New Guinea.
Neither of the animals appreciat airahip," the report said, "Is the Town before the Institution of tain machines with a saving of
cost.
ed the sight of the giant machine, Ave-fin control surface arrange- Mechanical Engineers in London.
According to the author, present» :
While the simplicity of ordinary and they refused to be driven, or ment with which it is expected to
Eventually they From Wimbledon to Hampstead dying for the majority. There will improve ground clearance for day high-production requirements hydraulic installations has been re-backed into it. to pay a Sunday morning call in ten always be a demand by the minority manoeuvring, low speed control, demand machines giving the larg: tained, no accumulator is used, and were placed in a cage and hauled
at the higher est possible output by means of the variable-delivery pump prevents into the machine. or from Piccadilly-for aircraft of larger capacity and surface stability
work-spindle and
speeds the waste of power when using wards they were flying through the circus to St. George's Hill golf Tinks greater performance, just as there speeds and mechanism.
The airship will be equipped hitherto unknown. It is essential high-pressure fluid for light duty. air, and in less than in seventeen minutes... or indeed is for cars in a similar category, anywhere you wish, at the rate of But the future of flying for the man with an observation car which may that an instantaneous change of Relief valves and pressure gauges animals were safely landed at their Hence the gold diggers on the a mile a minute, in your own baby in the street lies with the perfec. be lowered a distance of 1,500 feet these speeds be obtainable in the are included in the system, thus destination, 85 miles away.
Bulola now refer to the cow on the The Government announced to airplane with folding wings and tion of the ultra-light craft, the below the airship for special forms simplest possible way, and hydrau- safeguarding the machine against
This airship is lic operation fulls this require overload.
fields as "the cow that Jumped over day that a special tax will be im fool-proof landing; at a running possibilities of which have been so of observation.
Early Applications being constructed for operationsment.
For driving purposes an hydrau- | · ·
the mountains," because there are posed for the purpose and that it cost equivalent to that of a baby successfully demonstrated
The earliest machine-tool appli-many mountains to be crossed bo- One can visualise the rural post-lover water and will therefore have will become effe:live immediately.
That is the vision of those who man visiting his chain of outlying a boat bottom incorporated as well lie pump and motor unit is requir-
as a sea anchor ballast pickup de- ed. For feeding purposes the ap-cation of hydraulic transmission{tween the sea coast at Lae and the Men and women employed in the have been interested in the develop-villages in one of these tiny ma- various labour callings will pay the ment of ultra-light aircraft, and the chines. He will land on the local vice. For land operation conven- plication consists of a pump and was to broaching machines, and, Bulele goldfelds.
oll. Control valves and piping tended to grinding machines. The the way, are run by an Adelaide lowest tax which will be between possibilities of this becoming an ac football field or the village green, tional bumpers and pontoons are cylinder having a piston driven by proving successful, it was later ex-vent of the aeroplanes, which, by advantage of quiet, smooth. opera company, the journey through the two and three per cent. The tax complished fact within the not too deliver his letters on foot, and be provided."
While individual standards in i
tion and freedom from shock of re-jungle and the took on the workers will be imposed for distant future have been emphasis-five miles away in the next hamlet
oday the cent demonstrations at within the same number of minutes. training in observation were higher LUXURIOUS ROMAN versal is more apparent on this type jungle any over tot mountains a period of eight months only.
Those engaged in the lighter the London Air Park of aircraft de- We may see the commercial travel than ever before, the report found callings and who do not receive signed by Mr. Lowe Wylde. lers of England, the bagmen of the that unit operations had been "seri- regular wage will pay 30 per cent. This machine, which incorporates road, forsaking rail and metercar, ously handicapped by the restric
Various arrangements of cylin- ders in serica or with multiple: The shortest wave-length of any of a month's wages. Private mer-an ordinary standard motor-cycle complete with samples, travelling tion in flying time," for missions chants and priests will pay 260 per engine of 6 h.p., is the outcome of round to Leeds, Manchester, Brad-giving training to squadrons as
transmitters can be incorporated in wireless service in the world is to cent. of a month's wages based on the designer's experience in the ford, Glasgow, Bristol, Southampton, whole. It was noted that a new
drilling machine construction, al-be used between Lympne (Kant): Jerusalem, the average monthly income for a production and operation of gliders or anywhere else, the Continnent high-wing gull type metal mono-
though a combination of variable and St. Inglevert (France) sero- They will save time, plane with a speed of nearly 200 period of one year.
this development may be appreciated included. The main effort of the project and sailplanes. The significance of travelling expenses, hotel bills and miles an hour had been developed. The rebuilt Tiberias baths which delivery pump for feeding in con- dromes for the cross-Channel trafïje Improvement in use of bombe for at-are replacing the ancient medieval junction with a gear pump for of aircraft not equipped with radio will be directed toward better hous-by reflecting with what scepticism a train weariness.
thousand rapid traverses is generally em-sets. The wave-length will be 15- There is, indeed, no limit to the tack work was reported, with the structures where, two
centimetres (six inches). The dia- ing and municipal facilities which forecast of the present predomin- the entire populace may enjoy. ance of the small car would have the possibilities. It will be pracfact that "research work along years ago Roman Emperors and ployed.
The problem of applying hydrau-tance between the two stations is ticable to take off from some small technical lines, has produced bomb Proconsuls bathed in All persons who received less than been received twenty years ago.
plot in the suburbs, or it may being aeroplanes which have attained springs, was formally inaugurated lic transmission to lathes is as yet twenty-three miles. 75 roubles monthly or who, because
only partially solved, and present This service is chiefly for the of illness or disability, cannot work.
from a special portion reserved in a high speed hitherto unknown in lately before a large gathering,
The baths beside the Sea of developments centre round short-announcing of arrivals and depar will be exempt from the tax.
our central parks In the heart of bombers."
Galilee, lavishly equipped by the traverse machines of the non-screw-tures of small aircraft, and "for London-or for that matter from
Bomans, have now become a com-cutting type. Headstocks with routine service messages. It will such
place
pro-{
mercial enterprise and are being hydraulic drives are rare, but the shorten the time required for check- jected 120 feet high land-
Paris. Although the huge plane operated by a limited liability com- advantage of an infinitely variable ing the passage of private aero- which is likely to ing stage
speed range is very pronounced. planes, so that in the event of be erected over a large area of the being built at the Farman works pany.
In recent years the Tiberias Milling machines provide special accident prompt steps can be taken goods sidings behind Ring's Cross for flights into the stratosphere is and St. Pancras Stations-and take not yet complete, the motor which thermal springs have been run by difficulties which are being over for rescue.
a locked The use of this system will relieve an early morning bathe at Brighton will drive it to high altitude is the Municipal Council of the city in come by the adoption of Jan. 11 June in less than an hour from starting. already on test. It is a 350-horse-a poorly equipped building, but early feed. Cutter life is greatly in the ordinary wireless service, and it concession was creased by the cushioning effect. has the advantage of freedom from With equal possibility we may see power unit, equipped with three this year a new Cts. Cts. young men and maidens going off to super-chargers, each one to be granted to a group of American and The limited application to recipro-interference from natural electrical cating machine tools is explained disturbances. It is not affected by golf at Sunningdale or St. Andrews brought into service as the plane Palestinian Jewish financiers.
The present concession is for a by the high speeds required and the fog, and it offers a high degree of with proportionately coelerated increases its altitude.
trial period of five years. At the difficulty at the point of reversal, secrecy. of transportation equivalent to that more than £16, after which he end of that period, if the enterprise should be able to hire such an air is a success, a large scheme will be of the very low-powered car.
Machines such as those referred craft for about 10s, an hour. Think considered necessitating the outlay
HONG
Flying for the Majority These small airplanes, in my view, definitely open the door to
KONG MARKET PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
ib.
Prime Cul
#
Jan. 11 June
1938 1018
Cts. Ctr.
BUTCHER MEAT.
Beef Sirloin
Corned
Ron L
Breast
Soup
Stenk
Steak Sirloin Sausages
Bullock's Brains
Tongue, fresh
Hrad
34
1938 1018
52882 a 68 * * & 8 X 662 33
POULTRY
Chicken Capons, Small
lb.
"
Largo
Duck
36
Dover
each
Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz. 86
per sel 20
Mach
Eggs, Hen (fresh)
carned
1.05
Fowls,
Hainan ...
Ib.
1.80
Canton
Heart
Th
#
Geese
Hump, Salt
each 12
Kidneys
16.
1.80
Ib,
20
20
"
20
H
rt
per set
Feet
Tail
Liver
Calver Head & Feet set $1.60 41.00
Mutton Chip"
Leg
Shoulder
Saddle
Pig's Chitling
Brains
Foot
20
(9
Read
1
Ib.
each
SURAZPM AZABREDÉS-ME85.8SAAASBENEK) SÕRMUSIZENZAY?
Kidneys
Liver
Pork Chop
"Loin
Fat or Lard
Sheen's Read & Feet per set 90
Heart
Kidneys
77 Liver
Sucking Pigs, to
order
Buet, Beef
Buet, Boef
Mutton
Szukages
Veal
群
Barbel
Bream
No. 1
FISH.
Canton Fresh
Water Fish
Carp
12
Codfish
Crabs
Cattle Fish
Dace
Eels, Conger
Fresh Water
Yellow
Frogs
Garoupa
Hard
· Halibut
Lobsters Mackerel
Mullet Oysters Perch Pike
Pomfret, White
Pomfret, Black Prawin
Animon
Bhark
Strata
Shrimps
Ronch
****98*8*253 |&82285°8888 IN IPHRA233 1878-ER, KASA8||
Pigeons, Canton
each
H
Holbow Turkeys, Cock
16
lb.
Turkeys, Hen
Snipe... Pheasant
Quail Partridges
Almonds
FRUITS.
Apples (California) Bananas
Carambola
Coconuts
(bride'a)
Lemons, China ...
Lemons, American Lichees, Dried
Oranges (Canton)
Orange Drank
Pears (Canton)
#
85
the
30 speed and facility, and all at a cost
28
28
29
STRATOSPHERE MOTOR.
4
Replacing Ancient Structures.
the hot
22 to, the Air Ministry being willing of it! Ten shillings in which to go of about £40,000 and a concession
18 and circumstances propitious, should sixty miles in sixty minutes. To a for 40 years.
25
85
be on the market within the year at business man it may prove cheaper The mineral properties of the
a price round about £200 each. than 'telegraphing, telephoning, or Tiberias Hot Springs are similar to Already the experimental models, travelling first-class by train. which by no means represent the
24* last word in comfort, are so efficient
29
at
―
each 28 pair 2.00 2.50 eech A
12
1.10
Speeding Up Trade.
those
•
The personal factor.counts most that I consider their practical usage in any sort of business, and one can on a large scale no mere optimistic see that these machines, by making conjecture or sensational prophecy. personal contact over long distances The widespread use of improved quicker, cheaper and easier than has craft based on this type is as in-ever been dreamed possible will' do
a great deal to speed up trade. evitable as the turn of the tide..
The present machines are power-
All that is needed is Air Ministry
ed with 6 hp. Douglas 600 cc. support and benediction. It will motorcycle engines, take off and mean a revision of prosent regula- moment the official
$5 land at about 20 m.p.h, and cruise tions, but the
25. comfortably between 40 and 50 word "go" is spoken, aviation will 4m.p.h. Their consumption allows of receive the impetus for which It has
12
lb. 1.00
24
esch 14
Ib.
10
each 16 10
Ib. 1.20
10 upwards of 55 miles to one gallon of been waiting since the first airplane 25 petrol The type that will develop left the ground.
as a result of these experiments will
of Belouin-Les-Bains, nearT Cairo, in Egypt, where rheumatics and other muscular allments are cured, Reuter,
MAKER DEAD. EARLY AEROPLANÉ
M. Gustav Lilienthal Passes Away.
Berlin.
The death is announced of Gustav (Lilienthal, the close collaborator of [his more famous brother Otto, who
So far flying has been a somewhat was the first to construct an aero-
28 probably be fitted with an engine of expensive hobby. The ordinary en-plane in which gliding flights could 12 #
some 10 h.p. (nominal), which will closed light airplane costa nearly be made, and which already contain- enable a passenger to be carried £1,200 to buy, £50 to learn to fly on, ed all the essentials of the modern with ease and will also result in in-and at least 4d. per mile to fly. The plane, only lacking the motor, there creased performance. The machine number of serodromes and charted existing at the time no seroplanes. without pilot or passenger will landing grounds which may be used The two brothers Wright were. Lilienthal's pupils and after – kínj weigh under 500lbs, and with its with safety is limited: folding wings will be very easy to A forced landing generally re-death built their plane along the
|sults in some damage to the machine same lines. transport.
18
18
»
15
Peanuts
19
20
Persimmons, Large Pumelo, Siam
Walnuta
Ib.
215 Grapes
24
10
VEGETABLES, ETC.
18
KK 82
80
8
10.
Artichokes
Beans, Sprout
LOBE
Beet Foot Brinjals, Green
Red Cabbage, Chinese
(Shanghai) Cauliflower (Large)
Carrole
(Medium) (Small)
Coterity, Chinese Chillies, Dried
Red Green
Curry Stuff, English
Cucumbers
Garlie
Ginger, Young
Old
Horseradish,
Indian Comm
Lelluci
Okroen
Onlona, Bombay
Grez Shanghai
Pursley Potato, Sweet-
Japanese
" American Pompkin
Radish Rhubarb - (Fresk) Spinach
Tomatoes«. Turnipa, Punil
(Long)
Vegetable
sta Ly Roo
12
Easier for the Learner
unless the pilot is exceptionally The deceased was 84 years ... of One of the greatest advantages of skilled. But the baby plane of the age. Death overtook him in har these tiny airplanes is the fact that future will have a much wider ness in the experimental aviation their low landing speed makes learn- choice in such circumstances, as any sheds where he was testing out an ing to By far easier and safer than small-sized flat field with good ap-entirely new type of aeroplane con- It has ever been before. It is ob proaches should be adequate for the structed by him on the "swinging 12vious that if a beginner can land average pilot to alight on or take system.”
off from his machine at about 20 miles an The pilot will, in time, be able to
hour lastead of 45 to 50 m.p.h., 5which is common to most light air
come down safely on, or depart
INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES.
A cubic inch of cast iron weighs
10 planes of the present conventional from a plot Httle larger than an type, he runs an infinitely smaller ordinary tennis court. When that risk of hurting himself in the event day arrives we shall inevitably And 283 of a crash. Crashing in these con- that chose who have been suficiently.
long-sighted to realise the possibili ditions should be little worse thanes of modern-day transport by the falling off a bicycle. You may be bruised, but you will not be broken. erection of palatial road house and Even more important is the fact vast garages in town or on our new trunk roads will turn their atten
45 that the cost of learning to Ay will tion to providing all the facilities
be cut down practically to one-third.
At present the course of instruction required for their new customers
4 necessary at the average club before an embryo pilot can expect to take his "A" licence involves an expendi- ture of" from 840 to 150 There after, if he wishes to hire an afr. craft-and' few can afford to bac an owner at the present pri
will cost frim 41 10%, to
hour for hire Alone
travelling by air.
These machines will have to have came. Why not autoplanes? They will at last enable Sainvel Johnson's prophecy of 1750 to be realised;ivik)
I have long been of the opin that instead of the
of wings;
and charíbhí ma
lb.
An American ton equals 2,000 lb. whereas a British ton equals 2,240
Cant, iros expands .062 per cent. for every 100 degress F. increase in temperature.
Pounds per gallion I09988 equale kilograma par Ittrez
A wheel of 80 in wolves #12 times
of machine than on any other, and the applications include central, internal, and surface machines.
1933
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