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LONDON'S LIFE-
SAVERS' OVERTIME FOR NOTHING
KEEPING CONVOYS IN STEP
Time was when keeping a ship in position in a convoy called for clever control of speed. But mat- |ters are different now. Aˆ new automatic electrical device has simplified, this part of navigation. It also gives the commanding of ficer more time for other essential duties.
The difficulty arose, out of the fact that "Full speed ahead" is rarely the same rate on any two ships. Consequently when this signal was given in the engine room of a ship "A", this vessel might forge ahead at 10 knots. In ship "B" the same. signal from the bridge might result in a rate of, say, 12 knots. The only way to adjust matters used to be for the officer of this ship "B" to send instructions below by tele- phone or other means to re- duce speed slightly. The pro- peller was then slowed down a few revolutions a minute. And the process had to be repeated until the right speed was at-
All kinds of dodges were in- vented by engineers to obviate this time wasting routine which had to be gone through whenever there was a change of speed. One. rather. Heath Robinson but often used method was to rig up a wire and pulley system. This meant suspending in the engine. room a
piece of wood marked at certain
IN THE LAST WEEKS there has been little rest for any of the seven rescue squads operating fron the headquarters of a South-West London dis-levels to indicate different speeds, trict which I visited, writes a London reporter.
a little over £3 a week, and that when they worked overtime they did so without any extra, wage.
connected to a loop on the bridge which could be fixed at various
heights according to adjustment required by the officer.
New Device
A new device recently intro- duced by the General Electric Co., Ltd., of England does the job in an infinitely more effective
One
"They come on duty at eight o'clock in the morning, and are supposed to be relieved at eight o'clock at night but recently there have been so many demolished buildings to cope with that they have not always been able to relieve each other promptly," the district surveyor in charge told me.
He said that the men were paid in the days of training and prac-way. The device consists mainly tice before the aerial war began. of two electrically illuminated
"They think highly of that, lindicators and a control.
on the bridge "And, on their part, without
No matter what time they come indicator is fitted off duty, one or other of them alongside the control, and the any thought of it," he added.
When other in the engine room. comes up to give it its daily the control is set to the appro- Crawling about wherever
polish," I was told. bomb has torn its path of terror
priate position the increase or de- and destruction, these indomi- Up against the walls of the crease in the number of revolu- table mercy men burrow and dig little office were propped such re- tions required is immediately through mountains of debris to lics as the fin end of a 500lb. shown up on both indicators free children and women and bomb, dug out of the ruins of a simultaneously. When the en-
house; a jagged piece of metal,gineer has suitably altered
the eight inches long which had engine speed he operates a press
come hurtling from a wrecked button which switches off upper floor and missed one of lights in the indicators signifying our foremen by an ingh.".
to the bridge that the adjustment has been made.
men,
They Don't Wisecrack Any More
a
Most of the rescue brigade have been recruited from the building trade.
navy
Some Of Them Are Old Men
the
The equipment la constructed on particularly sturdy lines Q view of the fact that in such altuations as the bridge of a ship and in its engine room it 'is subjected' to more strenuous conditions of service than would..
They are the type of whom before the war you "They are great men, these saw springing about the beams 'navvies," said the district sur- and joists of half-erected, veyor quietly. They work. buildings, eating their lunch through raids, with bombs crump- time bread and cheese per-ling round them and the con- ched in the most precarious posi- tinual danger of houses collapsing tions, and endlessly wise-crack- on top of them, without turning
Merely a turn of a control. ing with their mates.
a hair.
keeps a ship properly in "step." "And they're not all youngAnd that's just another invention that the electrical industry has
They don't wisecrack
any more. The things they have seen since the bombardment of
London, have stopped that,
Nor, when they're out on a job, do they stop to eat-except
berthe casa of a similar equipment ashore.
men either the best foreman we've got is a man of 70, who's quloker on the job than any of devised to help win the war.
them." He told me that the men were
If a Women's Voluntary Service Įstanding the terrific mental and mobile canteen should come near physical strain of their work with enough for them to grab a sand-grand staunchness; wich with one hand.
SINISTER
"Of course, it's no good pre GERMAN
There are- ten men in every tending that some of them don't squad. Foreman, carpenter, plum- suffer from shock-they'd have to ber, bricklayer, and
la-be robots not to, seeing the things bourers, four of whom have been they do. And when that happens trained to give first-aid.
six
Working By Hooded
Torches
AIRMEN
ABOUT
we try to get them an extra hour STRONG-COMMENT or two's rest, but that's not al-THE MENTAL ATTITUDE OF. ways easy to arrange these days GERMAN-AIRMEN AS COM-. and nights of Blitzkrieg."
Why They Were Cheerful
PARED WITH. THE CALM COURAGE OF LONDONers 18 MADE BY THE NEW YORK "TIMES," WHICH SAID: "
The contrast is horrible. The
"Sometimes," said the district surveyor, it is rather a long time before the debris can be cleared enough to let the ambulance men I went with him to a row of words are urmmistakably, those of and stretcher.. partios through to houses two blocks away, where a a sinister adolescent who has where people have been trapped. squad was working on the havoc never grown up and never will..
"That is why our boys must caused by two bombs which had ] Into the hands of hysterical chil-- know how to be able to alleviate fallen, one on each side of the dren like him are given weapons. suffering right-away?!
froad. -
to destroy the treasures of ages.
When I called at headquarters | ^ The mon were shoring up gap. This war la a struggle between there was no one in the down- ing walls, linocking ragged ends infantilism and maturity, between stairs room where the men sit of glass from windows, digging a insanity and cool sanity: «Surely waiting till they are called on path through the mountainous a psychiatrist can have no doubt duty; there was only a pile of pile of bricks and rubble strewn as to the ultimate outcome. their impedimenta picks and over the road. shovels and drills and” the hooded Two men, thole facds, white HISTORIC GUNS TO torches which,' when the bombers with dust, looked out of a:hole are overhead, aro the only light they have to world by, b
In a wall land." shouted, a ghoor,
full greeting
BE MELTED
All of the squads wore out; “They're light-hearted about_In addition to the old guns now 'some still working on the ruing this particular job by a miracle being taken from Woolwich Com caused in the night, others at there were no casualifes, for the mon for' disposal as 'scrap, historic home on their 24 hours off duty.. people living in the houses most guns of various types are to be re- In the place of honour. over the badly hit had got out of London moved from the Rotunda Military mantelpiece was hung a silver-only a day or two ago," said the Museum at Woolwich and handed plated shield, won for efficiency district surveyor.
lover to the Ministry of Supply: