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New Ideas For Houses In Britain
101
for
three-
Two-storey houses havo long been popular in Britain- for one thing they help to cut down housework. But a atory beuse which might help Without solve housing problems making more housework
för
is to
Television Age At Birmingham
Birmingham, first provincial city to bo chosen for a great experiment is fast approaching tho Television Ago, and there is a concerted drivo to make the public "view-minded”. in pre- paration for the now Midland Television Sta- tion to be operated there next autumn.
City dwellers already have à
Burmese Get Radio Equipment
over
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and believe that tion of heat, with the
proper development and use of Insulating materials the country could have a surplus of coal, and this rock wool wilk be up important contribution to- wards achieving that objective.
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be exhibited at the Ideal Home constant vision reminder of the Exhibition at Olympia, London, coming new. service in the in March. This house, which is rapidly developing television being shown by Britain's Minis-mast on the roof of Telephone try of Health with
of House In Newhall-street. a number other types of homes will give all the advantages of
bed- of four
Some idea of the cost of tele
given by installation is rooms and a bathroom upstaira vision with bath a roof terrace and a the price of the co-axial cable.
garden ground lovel
for retransmission system from Alex- taking more andra Palace, the home of tele- creation, without
of alr. Twelve complete acts ground space than can be spared vision, to the new Sutton Cold-port radio navigation aids were
uch
amenities in
to the densely field transmitter. Co-axial costs populated urban areas.
about £6 a yard to buy from the yesterday handed
than Burmese Government lesa
For instance, by laying it in da Des Voeux Rd. C. Innovations rid the tall house manufacturers.
three months from the date
the false roofs of buildings, or of its ancient faults. No one hus From London to Birmingham. their. order.
by using it in the cavity walls of to curry up coals and water, or with essential diversions, is 122
Contracts of this nature nor-
houses, the domestic fuel ration bring down ashes from the upper miles. The cost of cable, there-mally take a year to complete would not be used to the extent Hoors. The modern three-story fore, is more than a million home will be as easily worked as pounds to begin with, withou/ but as it was vital for the safety in which it is used at present in
of the
Union of Burma Airways the heating of the surrounding many a two-storey one. Visitors reckoning labour and mainten- to have navigation aid before the
the atmosphere outside the house, at the end of rather than the inside. menscons the cabling, March, production time was cut
The new rock wool is non-In- Other dwellings which the which is
down to a quarter.
and
makes up the Dammable Aystem-by include: show
of The First Secretary Ministry will
The thecheuper form of insulation. two-story maisonette, two short waves over a series of relay
Mr. Burmese Embassy,
Arm hope to go into fuil produc- of 40-miles intervals Maung Aye, received the sets at tien of it in two of three months room flat, and a single room flat, towers
London from houses Four
by The tower on
to Birmingham, Bovingdon Airport yesterday and time. top of Telephone described the completion of the dividual building concerns will
House is the Anal one in the complete the VHloge of Ideal
chain; it "hands on"
contract in such a short time as the short Homes. The village will frame an waves from Rowley Regis Tower" "really marvellous acklove-
ment",
to the exhibition will see exact-once charges. ly how.
more
a
enchanting flower garden full bloom-one of the most brillant village centres ever created. The exhibition will be open from 9.30 a.in, to 9.30 p.m. every weekday
from March 1 to March 20.
High Speed Prefabrication
A new technique Invented by Kirkcaldy, Scotland, man which enables the top, back and base of a furniture cabinet. to be prefabricated of plywood in one piece at the rate of one every three minutes on an automatic machine, has been Introduced to Die United States. Two Lendon designers who had used the
.
addition
to
2
secund tra, there is a!
to Sutton.
Burma
"On behalf of the Government The amount of equipment in nf Burma," he said, "I would Telephone House is
like to congratulate all concern- small, and apart from the relayed their fine effort. This equip-
relatively
tower there are only a few racks
main
jr
goon on
fear
Binoculars Exhibition Planned
systems"first-eld"' squads wil British radio industrie for thej W. Six binoculars
B
Bromwich, held from
Telephone 31146
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of gear to be seen. The expectment has been tested and is in excellent working order and it ed 40-miles range of television will be crated and flown to Ran wilt only apply. to the transmitting station, at Sutton Union of Burma Airways to con- culars will be on show in the
the Friday to enable
An impressive series of bind- Coldfield, and not to each of the tinue thier regular services of Olympia section of the British relay towers. Some televisiontinuo
without Industries Fair at the stand of acts in Birmingham are already passengers and freight
of_weather." receiving images from London,
G.B. Equipments Limited. "The Air Commodore C.S. Cadell,
has Fuir, which
sections at but this is due to freak trans-C.B.E., Managing Director of In-Earls Court and Olympia, Lon- mission which could not uni-
Acradio ternational
of Ltd
and Castle versally be employed.
of doinham Hertfordshire,
des Birmingham, will be Eventually G.P.O. television Bovingdon, engineers will be established at cribed the contract as the "most May 2 to May 13. The bino- that has ever culars are a product of Kershaw- London, Daventry, Coventry severe demand and Birmingham, and
been made since the war. Its tule Scho (Sales) Limited, of Im- breakdown or fault occurs in iment has once again proved perial House, Air Street, London,
will be 105, Des Voeux Rd., C. 店金五费明 either of the two transmission that no job is
shown, ranging from the The radio equipment is worth Monarch wide angle fold glass be hurried to the spot.
司公限有 Stand-by amplifiers will be in-
ลม coated lenses, with 10 and (Opp, Contral. Market) tropicalised and ready for im 12 magnifications, to the New-
They are being New York to receive one of the breakdown alarms sound at the mediate use.
flown to Burma in a Skymaster market for ladies to take to the
races, two
depots.
This glass has a magni. first prizes awarded for repair o
Certain technical facilities are and are expected there on Feb-fleation seven. The firm also lowest cost fumiture designs in
make theatre glasses one flat, in service on thousands upon thon an International Competition for visualised to provide for trans-ruary 20,
Meanwhile, Aeradle is training and about the same sizo from of programmes sands of drives.
which nearly 3,000 entries were mission Wherever it "b
Burmese operators to take over packet of elgaretics. Sutton Coldfield should the B.B.C. used higher levels of power trans- received from 31 countries.
erect studles
"blooming" the the scls. mission efficiency_are_attained.'
The Council of Industrial De- decide to
Coating or Six-leading firms combined in Ionses which is done to all. Midland Installation After the
binoculars is one of tish interest. The two London has
the equip the great optical advances of the del of the country. will be considered; was stipulated that men won a cheque for 6,000 do the next station will probably be ment must be transportable y century. Although the pass!- lars. They had submitted sec. tional unit storage pieces which one to serve South Lancashire, air and, owing to the were of such high standing that and part of Yorkshire, for which buildings, that they must be sult
the Birmingham-London main able for setting up they shared the three prizes for
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Kirkcaldy system have klown. to stalled ready to switch on when 93,000 and all the sets are fully
there.
Isten helped to promote the Bribeca completed other parts the race against the monsoona, It Kershaw's
this section. The technique used could be used as a feed.
by the London men was invented by Mr. James Henderson of the firm of Matthew Бреаг Company, Kirkcaldy.
und
Apart from the continuous pre-
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halves the normal quantity of
wood used. The designs have been protected . until this
now.
ting in a tent.
and opera-
America Keeps An
Eye On Finland
Washington, February 23.
as a
Iack of bility, of treating lens surfaces has been known for many years was only during World War II that manufacturing control of the process became B practical possibility. One of the Arst plants to be operated on a com- mercial scalo
Was that Kershaw's factory in Leeds, England. Briefly, coating the lenses has the effect of ensuring that all the lights rays entering the prism behave as they
ught; to. It stops light being back and it ensures that all, and not only some, of the light rays are beat in conformity with the
system of the glass.
leners of Korshaw's enables 40 per cent. more fight to pass through the system. The blooming, also acts as a co- lour hiter and greatly increases colour contrast-an Important point for race-goers and turalists.
type of furniture has gone into American officials are keeping a careful watch on production on a large scale.
Russian relations with Finland for any sign of a Soviet move which might upset the delicate balance of power on the flank of the cold war front.
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Among some well-informed officials there is strong hope that the Russians will continue to leave Finland's status unaltered during the present period of Scandinavian crisis, but no one can. predict this for sure.
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Moreover, there, is some up-respect is nominal Indepen easiness among Western diplo-dence.
·Swedish Fears mats over the tendency of
carried out in Singapore with (Finland's Socialist Russian history to repeat itself.
Cabinet mechanical handling of cargo ap- of confidence voto They recall that in 1947 the faces a no
In pears in the current issue
Shipping List Communists, under Moscow's Parlament today. If successful, Lloyd's
that direction, smashed the last it would force toorganisation of Gazotte. The account says
the "Government:
the experiments, The question vestige of political indepen of Finland's relations with Rus-wards the speeding up of the dence in Hungary, and lasta is under discussion, but the discharging and loading of cargo, year, about this time, pressure major debate centres on farmers have proved to be highly satis- was put on Czechoslovakia,
rices and factory., demands for better. The Scandinavian split over lower taxes.) the projected Atlantic security
be com
treaty la expect through an on- ploted this week through
cial decision, by Norway to line
up with the Western
It will then be up to
to determine what its course
shall be, The Danes, ore regarde
10m
The equipment used in the fear that tests consists mainly of electric
made by trucks will not two-ton Moscow, however, continue to let the Finns land famous British firm. The trucks If there is a basic change "else have been used in conjunction Here In Scandinavia such as with a gang of 10 men for slack- for example, Norway's aligning or storing of cargo and the -ment
with the West. experience gained will be applied The Swedish Foreign Minister to the introduction generally of
ed here as leaning to the West has consistently told the U.8. mechanical, handling equipment
ern alliance, but as being more that he believes that if Sweden which began on February - 1. reluctant than the Norwegians to joins the Atlantic security group, take the Anal step. To some Russia Immediately: would · "In- xtent, the Danes had shared voke its mutual, assistance pact fand-1400ght? to: strengthen Swe-with-Finland and insist on put
dan's) hopes for "n" Beaudina dan ting, Rusina
ali troops ví
· Ots: Finnish, "nsiurafily. Bloc",
When the line itemplate; Pr
AMSTERDAM- STRIKE OVER Amsterdam, February 22. Russo-Finnish treaty calls The Amsterdam dockers strike, Sweden may be teltiin the longly for consultations between Hel- which began six weeks ago, ai position of ani leland of quasi sinkl, and. Moscow Lay event of its height involving about 1,000 sieutrality on the Western side aggression. Moscow formino works will end tomorrow of the cold war front
weeks now, has been denouncing The en decided to return t Finland can continue to hold the tentis project nag-work after receiving, MERC anthewhat?imilar positioni ch
the|tory reply to their wage": "de" countriesį, rgalnat » the mands, from: the, Epard ›› bf-the)
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