THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1959.
I Help To Light We'll be plucking 1
120 Lamps
•
AND HAVE HARDLY THE BREATH.
LEFT TO BLOW OUT A CANDLE
DID you know that Henry Fillery is the only real lamplighter left in Lon- don? Progress has been stealing a quiet march on tradition and Lon-
don's former legions of lamplighters are now down to one.
There are still a tow who turn the lamps, up, but only one who lights them with his own brass-nozzied torch.
Mus: people don't know or care about the difference.
So long an unplgiler
plays
ht
largely senti- mental role of meuiting round LIF Streets leav Hg pools of Kentle guriight behind
the
they
not riis
tinguish
tween
be
one
wha Just
Seeing For Myself
ANNE SHARPLEY
turns a lap on with a long pale
so that a pilot jet springs into
and
ime
Who netumly
lights with a torch!).
But they do in the Temple Duwning Streal mury. turve rently succumbed to automated gus-lighting
Temple
Tiny flame
Bul
Iron
fratres trembled and
squeaked.
Occasionally
bowler-hatted
E- gentlemen with enclosed!
They've lost the art of mak-
"Well, they're in the ing g lamps," says Mr Fillery
shortly.
The Nepaliste, partacula:
Kentlemen fiestat
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roc seeing the tiny barst of Aume that shools from the end of Mr Fallery's torch. None of this in- stant lighting for the
Surety They've
approached severa! 13
their To have lamps bokht nute tap to date but they won't hra of 11,"stys Mr Fillery's foremni when went along le ser it Me Fillers would let me accompany him
M: Fillery Rave me the sort nť lank Fund Astaire must giv prospective tanec part-
גנו ייד
* You'll drave in be very good
at you're going to krep up with
mat he halal me, straight.
And off we set HE
1
different
clans to what you and me are, lentie," said Mr Fillery, "But f
Some of thei will say 115 will speak to you.
by
WOODROW "WYATT
oil out of
the
air!
and fucks. Colonel Nasser, it Still alive, will be 81 in 1909. He can blow up all the oil wells In the Middle East and every- where else if he feels like It. It will not worry us. We shall other fuels
alr. Fundamentally there is to be making oll and reason why airplanes should not out of the atmosphere and in be very much bigger than they other synthelle ways. are now and inure ceonomical."
My authority? Sar John Air height at 800 miles 11
Speaking of oil he hour for valuable articles will be Cockcroft. commonplace
1999 Less said to me: "At the end of the we may be making valuable and less bulky
In
Foods, century
We
for which urgency of delivery is much of our all in Britain. not paramount, will travel more won't need to kuport it. Oil chri be nude from carbon which is conventionally
in coal or in the atmosphere together with hydrogen. ir we have cheap nuclear power we
The Nautilus has made 199 see how easy It will be travci under the water
on its way.
But
there is nuother development will produce oil economically."
Sir John is a cautious man in forecasting. If he thinks that "By the turn of the century," It will be usun) by the turn of says Dr Shepherd, "it will be the century to be making oil in qulle possible either to go under Britain it will probably be done the water or skim the top. The on a large scale sime yeara skłmmdog strip will be cheaper before that. for goods and passengers then large aircraft with a speed of
100 to 200 miles an hour,"
almost
☆
in "I think
40 Middle East oli supplies will be
Years
down the mines and pump it out like of without going below,
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The point is that synthetic materials will mado from 10 Taking loo variety of sources much carbon dioxide out of the #nosphere might, It is thought, There is no risk so #treet it The skimming ship will be
Dr Shepherd agrees thut wo un aircraft traveling can pluck Juel from The alr long as it fa being put back as Or brand-new, carefully anti- Bish faces and neighing accents PROBABLY the most exciting story to be found today is
fuel, but if it is taken out to "good | the story of tomorrow .. as it is taking shape now in the 100ft above the surface.
An- about us. qued lamps in the rebuilt his acknowledged us with a
make plastics and other sub- of the Temple
whoso work other type will be with the ship been evening." that had
minds of visionury and adventurous mon
the water above
but
the stances it could make changes. litzed,
"What do you think of them?"
concerns the future. The China Mait asked Woodrow itself
Hence coal will be Important I asked Mr Fillery
Wyatt, a writer noted for his deep-probing mind, to find attached to under-water floats
Such speeds for huge vessels of Importance at all. Elther for making plastics, detergents, these men in Britain today, and to compile a vision of life will make the transport of most feston or thermo-nuclear energy, and the like. Used for these In 1999 as they see it. His resulting report is not fantasy goods by alr unnecessary. it or some later foroa of nuclear things it will not run out at but fact.. founded on
can move a ton of grain energy we don't know anything serious rate. cool judgment and exciting you
from Canada to England in less about yet, will make nattiral oil ambition. This is Part Two:-
thon Any why send it by air? uninteresting."
The modern burning of fuels put much carbou Doubtless the completely Our supplies of energy are, for has already
boundluse, dioxide to the atmosphere. purposes, popular. particularly among Nearly all the hydrogen in the Sorfe scientists believe that wo It would have wormed our climate in this It will be well within the passengers nervous of air travel. earth is in the ser,
Travelling under water is more take a long time to swallow all way Removing too much of the TEDRO of private cars then
than going ny the oceans
carbon dioxide without replac at more than 200 miles an comfortable
make the climate No rolling motion. All the elements needed to ing it could all other way Tour But unless we Aro
anation of Dr Shepherd ser, almost all create fuels of every type ar: noticeably colder. Ruing to become
But one thing which is never marine propuiston as nuclear around us They are Just wait- Stirling Mosses there seems little
So we need havo small vessels will of millions
use ing to be turned into fuels by lost is energy of Only
the kelihood
help of nuclear energy cu fear of running out of power MOUFLES There will be no sense and by 1999 there may be st motorials driving at that speed- today's conventional fuels.
Obviously infernal air travel
In transporting oil, and paying me ways of getting The end of
ու: uf the mysteries Toyalties tor 1, from Kuwait with vertical take-off and hell-
when it can be made here.
And dash, hurry, scurry from one to the next ane until there wasn't enough breath between
low out a camile. 42% don't hardly know the TRITION of places in the Temple, but could do the whole job blind feld," explains Mr Filtery over his shoulder os we take King's Bench Walk by storm.
lows 1 Rolag. St: Telf?" shotiin is cheeky workm with the devastating perception of all really good street com- mentors 1
Twinkling
feet
with 11
Füllery Little Mr
of prevrcupation, lete wir Twinking feet and great rod of steel and brass carried sentry- we on his shoulder las indeed
quixolte deliverance
W
A feeling of mild, anarchisther Mr rules: swept over me as Flery dashed on, weaving his web of light round the tangled courts and lanes of the Temple, Unconscious that he is part of a Frange, possibly childish, deter
nation for Ching to the old
1 stage prop.
this Like an thought, rebellously
tri
But he should fut presume! to think for the Mr Fillerys Bis world.
"I've had 25 very happy yours lamplighting." he says, putting
to fust ronds along which you
comfor-
Your car will be able to travel Comics uniter-water vessel will also be practical
200 m.p.h.
and
PA
more
PASSENGER aircraft just on 4,000 miles
all one's feeding of grotest into an hour. Passenger roc-
als proper
un hour
to
vopters from town centres will Even today in
place. wouldn'kets 10,000 miles an be habitual. have had it any
lier way. hour. Those are the America there are more private dearie."
airplanes belonging to business long-distance speeds for executives in flight than there 1999.
the air of someone out a intsslut ★ One loving husband has We have given his wife a face-lift for
alto Christmas.
Scuttle
a1 20
afternova,
1111
120
steady opaupe erased lp gether
nore the ent
ahrrad of us,
Dignified
1
1
10 motive people All we
tanaps.
At the top of King's Beneti
Lake Walk be
But who is the
1
present really for?
pauses to
11
Breath
Running out
There," he
KAYS. "you can from TATS
To Burd.
see thirty of BY
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It
Christmas dx for the 221 121 charge of inttersen Dogs Boone, Hove to lasseoverage any เร
42 Kus branches fo his 250
kcly"
The Best one we 1st hat Elurratu Frenk Crown and
charmed gaze, to have a blind- chubby glass jowls, Pushing
The lavender sky torch frite that dignitted creu- ing beauty. ture was rather like chucking of Lanket and the eurious silky Queen Victoria under the chla quality of the Barnps we had lat be! malgrave that Cad Mr Fillery's torch gave off
when a fonies there wi qurt of
only be felt .t
With comixed oment's pause, sound! ike
and like a teh uf achievement cr-umph
iny-it eliteks the go manties
gan to shine.
So fast
"Why
buit.
asked,
3/4
47
SORT Lave to Fast"
I
M
Pier
Cantal of the
"it's that last tmp You can never rest. dearte, until you'r
ut to at last up." he told ! 110 FJ221 bergan sharing his 1
lamp-propelled and of view
karters to understand
"
Londen sedilenly changed
view
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1-
cl
"You know, sormetlines. There' un owl on top of a Inap Dr Rang to High," he told the anti the wistful moment was KONUS jlede
Carefully inilowed lights were springing on in Georgian glimpses windows giving suve
de bok-neet zums
ChrisDuas
Do not expect such a revolu tox in internal travel, in which 200 miles an hour is about the
best surface speed that can be
led for.
are scheduled passenger services,
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But for a small
the oil empires
not
the universe now being
of
ex- useful and ron- plored Is the existence of anti- A controlled meeting venient source of carbun zad maller
Cool in
the
A
hydrogen. That will be one of between a chunk of anti-matter used for and af nortnul matter would pro- and other duce
energy unimaginable in terms of anything that can be mining cone today.
"but way
substances Alrerafi and rockets for civil synthesising fuels Use will not be nuclear propelled materials,
be will still "We need to keep Jaland like They do
not with mum hacking a ours there may not be much de gullig almost indefinitely with coal," says Dr Shepherd,
The weight of for Ind
average speeds nt ut refuelling.
nuclear contraptions and through the pit." In fact you could have it now. more than 200 miles an hour Be
There will be an hydraulle shields their surface travel in
where
only men There is nothing in engineering for internal to prevent the construction of 1899 Few people, though, will passenger contumination wi be system
required to take the cool away
the from
surface and rallways carrying electrie trains go as far afield as, say, Edin prohibitive economically. in that speed famerrow. Only burgh on business by any other
Anyway, there is no need to transportation. They wl ex- unwillingness to spend the nuns than air
the supply of oil customary worry about el to get thure in half an our at the most.
Inte
charges-enry.
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I've wand over 3,000 tibs running out already and weite
At the su 1 te nee
want to 10 Bagrateful," he satel Chelf or shul!
ds that topter from tanned salmon to
x-tral so: LE
POWOT
The skimming
on
ship is
the way
Nucleur power stations will rvathily Supply enough appear to electrify all railways. As Dr Harwell, say, surveying Shepherd, of
there will be ho poftst in Britai laving nuclear-driven railway engines, although might b
IKI il vast tract はい What about freight over long! useful Siberia
distances? Sir Arnold Hall, We can assume that the roads president of the Royal Aeronau-
Indeed by that tiral Society, says: will be better time some of the mon railway "In 40 years it will be normni lines may have been converted for quite big things to go by
Perhaps he could let his dogs invite hutan gaest opleve far atras" Starling with all egons who seat Christmas and to the dogs"
Lamiton press Service)
WHO WILL RULE?
WHEN
var tilted at an angle, with WH
strange uncustornary views of cornlees, rain-gutters and chim-
прук. Fristead of the rund pavement one was only
NWILLI
of the sky-time and the taunt-
will Britain choose ॥ new Govern- meat? It must be some- time between now and 1960. But when, when, when?
J
ing iron bruckets of one's new have heard all sorts of sug- objectives.
Lost art
Iamps of
Jumps of charm. Fluracter. Lamps whose taps soft. ilde, or were leaked a Launus so old that they shower-! ed rust in your eyes. Or whose
PETER BURGOYNE'S.
News From Britain
sourness of
gestions but of these only convinced of the Three are at all well-backed their reasoning. They are: this coming
Those who Ko for the later spring. the following
dales
ATKU- use a two-prong or the spring of autumn,
ment Prime Minister Mac- 1960,
milan, they say, is making a
of
the governing Each date hits its supporters good job
the prospects are detractors, all completely country and
Friti
JAK AT THE CIRCUS
Their second point the longer he can keep the Socialists wondering about the date of the election, the hurder it will be for them to formulate election strute .
Mr Macmillan's leusing responses to Socialist attempts that he will du oven better, lo prod him into tipping his increasing prosperity and hand on the election date, show mopping up the unemployment that he is well aware of the which the Socialists would retical inerit of tas second doubtless us as their principal argument. electoral weapons. Therefore, he is golug to
Lime use the symulable to him to consolidate Iris position.
Govern-
Those who go for the eariler date the spring of 1959--point
the pace of the ment's legislativa programme. All the important bills, with: the exception at two, riready out and the others are scheduled to appear very early in 1059.
Plainly, say the "spring 50" advocates, Prime Minister
clearing Macmillon
10
preven!
Are
for will he
to
pass steam
G.E.C
That is just a hint of things to eume.
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