MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN
TESTS PAY FOR
THEMSELVES
sector of the wheel which requires lightening. Not only does this in- genious machine find the exact spot; which is too heavy, but it automa- A batch of British-built munchines tically shows the operator how which will pay for themselves in &aneh met to remove, and atops very few years has recently been him when the balance is perfect. installed in one of 'Coventry's big- gest motor factories.
Known as TESTING EXTRAORDINARY
dynamometers, these machines, which are in use in the Triumph works, are employed to test the horse-power and efficiency of car
ngines:
After long experiment the Rolls- Reyes people have found what they consider a test which will find out any chassis weakness. It is called
Bumping rig",
First, the car engine is coupled to the dynamometer and is run-in; The front wheels of the chassis by an electric motor. When there placed on two rollers on which are steel bars at different intervals preliminary ruuin is completed the 'The rollers are rotated at 105 rar engine is run under its
own.p.m., and as each bar hits the power, but it remains, coupled with wheel and the two wheels are not The electric motor in the dynamo-receives a terrific jolt.
hit at the some time-the spring meter, which now acts as a brake.
The power given off by the petrol engine is read on the dinis, but it is not wasted, for the electric motor now becomes a dynamo and actually
passes current back into the mains: As the amount of current generated substantially exceeds that used, the dynamшgieters virtually represont a miniature power station, and by. reducing electric power bills woon repay their own initin), enst,
PERFECT POISE
flywheel must not only be perfectly To order to run smoothly a car circular, but the weight of metal must be evenly distributed about the centre. If it should be too heavy along one diameter, it will spoil the balance of the whole dupine.
In short, the test is equivalent to driving, the chassis over the worst of ronds, and it is interesting to learn that canh new type chassis has to undergo this maltreatment
for about 100 hours.
TO BE TREATED
RESPECTFULLY
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NAVAL NOTES
FLEET AIR ARM FLIGHTS
(Special Air-Man Servico)
VATICAN APPEAL FOR HARMONY
"NETARIOUS INFLUENCE OF
COMMUNISM."
Roine, March 15-A call, to world loaders to bury petty jealousies and purely nationalistic aspirations LONDON, Feb. 99.
and work in harmony for the com- A modifiention arrangements for the allocation of to-day by Pope Pius XI in address
of the new mon good of mankind was sounded
in The Times on Dec. 27, is notified Vatican at to ... Fleet Air Arm flights, announceding a secret consistury in the
in Air Ministry orders. The new arrangements are consequent on the increased provision of aircraft for embarration in H.M. ships other than aircraft carrièrs.
'The critical juternational kitua- tion is rendered uncertain, disturb- ed and disquieting by reciprocal suspicions and exaggerated unjust nationalism," the Popo declares. We deplore that in the New Que half of No. 403 (Fleet World, as well as in the Old World, H.A.S. Glorious in the Mediter-heard, while from the contaminated Fighter) Flight, formerly in class and fratricidal strife are still ranean, has been amalgamated with and devastated earth the voice of No. 401 (F.F.) Flight, in II.M.S. the blood of, brothers rises to Furious. Home Fleet. The remain- Heaven." ing half of No. 10 flight is being
The Pope, deploring the lengthy brought up to an establishment of worldwide economic crisis and un live aircraft by the addition of an employment whereby he said "the aireruft each from Nos. 400 and 407 onemics of all political, social and Flights. The unit will embark in religious order are eagerly profit .M.S. Eagle, now under refit ating" voiced a warning that the Devonport, for service on the China nefarious propaganda and influence Station at a date to be promulgat.of Communisin may well be con ed Inter. On arrival in China the sidered one of the chief causes of four aircraft of No 403 Flight distress and the world crisis.
which ship the Eagle is to relieve) embarked in H.M.S. Hermer "Our prayers will go to Heaven will be amalgamated with No. 405 Flight, hanging the latter unit up to au" establishment of nine air- craft. (The normal number of air-† craft per flight is six.)
-No. 403 (F.F.) Flight has at pre- ent an establishment of nine air in the Hermes and five in ships of craft, of which four are embarked
the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, China
to obtain the necessary light and the even more necessary harmony for the conferences and conversa- tions to be held this year for the readjustment of world economic policies, for disarmament-that it may be effective both materially and morally-and for settlement of the war debts problem," the Pope concluded.-United Pres.
eraft and his patrols accounted
Big Bertha is the name by which the giant Bliss Press is know in the Singer works at Coventry. This 700-ton machine Station. After the amalgamation for numerous others.. On Octo- accuracy with large steel plates, love, the remaining five aircraft zers. deals with astonishing speed and of the four aircraft in the Hermes ber 13, 1918, he attacked and with No. 405 Flight, referred to silenced three hostile howit- which it presses into side members
The D.F.C. was awarded of car frames with apparently less in the Fifth Cruiser Squadron will bite for War service and the D.S.O. effort than a boy cracking nuts.
continue to be known as No. 403 in 1816 for gallant and distinguish Other machines are similarly em-
Flight.
ed service in command of No. 30 played in transforming sheets of
(Bomber) Squadron during the steel into wings and brake drums.
operations in Kurdistan in the Finding the
previous year. heavy spota is A wise works management has
As a preparation normally long and tedious job,, ordained that the machines can be
for his new post Wing Commander but at the Standard works
Robb attended the course at the aoperated only by a lover situated
R.N. micropoise" machine has recent-some feet away, and. each time the
Staff College, Greenwich, ly been installed. This employs a relentless press descends, a wide
during 1932 Hunting carrier for the flywheel, metal guard precedes it to brush and a spirit bubble indicates the away an incautious arm or head.
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Captain K. H. L. Mackenzie, who was relieved in the autumn of 1932 in command of the gunboat flotilla in the West River, China, has been selected as the first commanding officer of the Guardian, the new net-layer and target-towing vessel completing at Chatham Dockyard The Guardian should be ready for service towards the end of Jne, and will join the Home Fleet.
Captain Mackenzie, is a sepcialist in navigation, and at the time of his promotion; in December, 1930, was Master of the Fleet in the Mediterranean. He has had 20 years' service, much of which has been spent on
the Australian Station. When the late War began he had been for two years naviga tor of the stoop Torch on the New. Zealand Station. Later he navi gated the light cruisers Royalist nad Melbourne in the North Sea. After the War he served in the battle-cruiser Australia, and in
commanded. 1921-23
the Bloop. Geranium, also in the Royal Aug tralian Navy. navigator for the First and Third He was squadron Battle Squadrons in 1926-29.
AIRCRAFT IN THE EAGLE
Wing Commander J. M. Robb,
D.S.O., A.F.C., has been selected Senior Air Staff Officer in H.M.S. Eagle, which is to leave England in April for China to take the place of the Hermes. The last S.AS.O. in the Eagle was Wing- Commander R. M. Field, now serving at the Air Armament School at Eastchurch.
Wing Commander Robb entered The Northumberland Fusiliers from Durham University in 1914 and was seconded to the R.F.C. in 1918. In the course of his service in France he destroyed seven' enemy air
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COMMAND OF THE AMBUSCADE
L.
Lieutenant-Commander T. Alkin, who in 1920-30 was executive officer of the Codrington, leader of the ord Destroyer Flotilla, Medi terranean Fleet, is to assume com- mand-to-day of H.M.S. Ambuscade, employed in Irish waters, in suc cession" to Lieutenant-Commander W. G. Davis, The Ambuscade was one of the first two destroyers built 1924. Her new 0.0 gained the after the War, being authorized in
prizes when passing out from Dart- English, seamanship, and scripture mouth College as midshipman with seniority of May 1, 1917, and served in the battle-cruiser Renown. As a sub-lieutenant he was in the gun- bont Muntia. in China. Since his promotion to lieutenant in August, 1921, he has served in the destroyer
ryneck and the battle-cruiser Re nown (for a second time). His first destroyer command Skate, one of the tenders to the was in, the Vernon torpedo school, in 1928-29:
SURVEYS IN CHINA H.M.S. Herald, the surveying abip on the China Station, which has been laid up at Hongkong since the end of November, is ordered to be ready to leave on April 3 for an- other season's work. She will be employed for nine months, return. ing to Hongkong about Dec. 1 to rent. The Herald is commanded by Commander N. A. C. Hardy, who has been promoted to his present rank since he joined her two years ago from the Kellett in home
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"The Nell Gwype Dances " (German). The Regimental Band of H.AI. Grenadier Guards conducted by Captain George Miller... "Humoresque" (Disorak).-The Regimental Band of H.M Gron- adier Guards condicted by Captain George Miller.
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A Bandeir-Fauquissart-Bunda de Sapadore de Caminhos de Ferro,
As Lagrimas-Canoao da Venus
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A Violin and Pianoforte Revital by Professor. N. A. Tonoff and Prof. S. Makļezoff, 10.10 to 10.30 p.m.-A programme
of Hawaiian Music supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co. Hawaiian Haka Song Pur Kealoha-Solo Hoopi's
Novelty Trio.—MR217," No Place Like Home, Dancing on the Ceiling-Len Fillis and his Guitar-DB304,
It Can't Matter Now. Moonlight ou the Colatado.
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London. Twenty-four cylinders, | HONGKONG METEOROLOGICA turning the crankshaft at 26,000 re- volutions minutes, ia the new automobile engine turned out by Prof. A. M. Low, English scientist and inventor,
The engine, termed the fas automobile engine in the w dispenses, with inlet, sad exh
to be the trend in English automo khale style this season. Numerous - twelves and sixteens, are degn-on
the market.
Professor Low's engine, although Bai not yet incorporated in an automo
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