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RAILWAY SPEEDS IN 1932
NINETY MILES" AN HOUR
GENERAL IMPROVEMENT
The year has been fortile in in toreating development in British railway speeds. The moat sperta oular of these is the Great Western i Railway's attack on its own record that was originally wat up in the autumn of 1931 on the Swindon | Paddington line by the so-called Cheltenham Flyer,
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den the speed is the same as that of the Liverpool train, though the average for the whole journey works out at rather over 60 m.p.h. On other parts of the old L.N.W.R. there has been a marked reduction in cuuning times.
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Rome.-Interesting experiments have been carried out in Italy with a type of seroplane in which the thrust of the propeller is conserved instead of being dissipated in the wake of the machine...
The principle has been much dis cussed among aircraft engineers, but after ve years' work, Signor Stipa, designer at the Caprani Aeronauticaj Construction Com pany, has completed and tested in long distance fights, a type of machine putting these draught utilisation theories into actual practical use. No claim is made except that tests have been success
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Relics of old English life, cen turies-old missals and breviaries, and manuscript prayers were sold at Sotheby's, London, last month They were in the collection formed by the late Mr. John Meade Falk ner, of Durham,
The Backland missat (Sarun use), English.14th century, was for. many years used at the "parish | church of Buckland, Berka. AVE the Reformation it went to the Throckmortons, the lords of the manor, whose house adjoined the church. The relic contained en- went to Mesars, Quaritch for £20. tries of Buckland village life, and The Shenton Beauchamp missal (Sarum use), English 14th century, which had been for secular ust, brought £110.
The Closworth missal, English early 18th century, was evidently the work of the Benedictine 1000- astory. The local sax view and hills had been used in the picture of the Crucifixion. The manu script fetched £230.
As the C.W.R. record run was described at the time it was set up For travellers between London on June 8 last it will suffice to re- and Scotland 1932 has been a peat that the locomotive employed memorable, year, for it has seen a was one of the standard Castle welcome modification of the old Class with which travellers on the, speed restricting agreement betul. line ate familiar; that the load of tween the East and West crust.com-
The Stipa aeroplane looks like a six conches weighed about 200 tons; panies. Finality has clearly not int big barrel metal fitted with and that the distance of 774 miles been reached, however, in the saw wings, rudder, a pilot's cockpit, from start to stop was traversed ining of 15 minutes in the timing of and Ialing wheels. Inside the a few seconds under 87 minutes, or the journey betwy pers the two barrel, which forms the fuselage, at the rate of 81 m.p.h. At less capitals, for the Liverpool and is the motor. The propeller is at than three miles from the start on Manchester expresses already re- the open mouth of the barrel and the journey to London the train was ferred to show what the LM.S.R. has a radius an inch or so less than travelling at over 60 m.p.h,, and i can now do
the cimumferenc of the barrel, before Shrivenham Station-five
To the other partner in the The barrel inside is made so that mites always-was passed the speed Scottish passenger traffic agreement its initial diameter progressively £5,000 had risen to som.ph.. with no speed is so much a tradition that diminishes and then extends, that
SPENCER TRACY Apparent effect on the easy running record after word or the Leeds is, a Venturi tube.
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of the coaches. Nowhere on the London journey of 165 miles in journey until Paddington was in less than even time causes no sur kight did the speed fall below 80 prise, though it must rejoice the m.p.h, and from a point 60 miles ghost of Patrick Stirling, the from London between Steventon and pioneer with Brunel of regular Wantage Road Stations to another fast Jocomotive work. point en miles menter London the speed was maintained at no lesa than 90 miles an hour.
Of the welcome accelerations of the year on the Euston Has the most remarkable is the reduction of 23 minutes on the Liverpool Londen journey by the train lear ing Lime Street at 5.25 p.m.. 80 that the run of 152 miles between Crewe and Willesden is timed to occupy 142 minutes for the 152 miles an average speed of over 64 m.p.h. This is a fine performance, The speed of the Liverpool train is nearly equalled by one of the Man chester-London expresses, the Man eunian, that leaves London Road Station at 9.46 am and with a
à average load of 250 tons is timed to run non-stop and reach Euston at 1 p.m. Between Crewe and Willes-
On the Great Eastern section of the L.N.E.R. there has been no such marked shortening of journey times as the liberal timetables seran to allow, and Cambridge, Norwich, and Yarmouth are not much nearer Liverpool Street in time than they
were 10 years ago.
On the Southern Railwaw main line speeds this year are much as they were in 1931. Several im- portant towite, however, and Al- dershot is one of them. There is not a single-non-stop train from from Waterloo to that important military centre, and the shortest journey time is 60 minutos for the 33 miles. Horsham, which is the same distance from London, is little better off, and Godalming is also neglected.
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The rare manuscript on vollum (the use of York) containing 221 pages, of English 16th century. work, originally belonged to Ca tle Kendal, Westmorland, which was owned by Catharine Parr. Yesterday's This realised £140. total was £3,808. So far, the Falk- her collection has brought over
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In fight the propeller compressesperia! Insurance Co., Ltd." then in the widening section the air expands causing thrust and a forward impulse to the fuselage. The invention of Signor Stipa is a linking-ip of the tractive effort with the reaction offered by the tubular fuselage containing the propeller.
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