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FIRE DETECTION INVENTION
Photo-Electric System
(Special Air Mail Servico)
London, Nov., 27. Among the many inventions to the credit of Ma S. G. Brown is an effective fire detector, which the proprietary company, Messrs. S. G. Brown, Acton, are bringing to the attention of the shipping and shipbuilding industries,
The are detector is a recent in vention, and is based on the well- known principle of the effect of light on a photo-electric or light
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NEW TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS
Avoiding Crush Of Inner Circle -
Even more important from the point of view of users of the Metro
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BRITISH COMMERCIAL
FLYING
Lord Londonderry's Reply
To Critics
(Continued from Yesterday)
American Frogtesa
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Nov. 27. Those people 'overseas who visit London and have experienced the
I have spoken so far of French, present inconvenience of the Inner Circle Railway will be relieved that Italian, and Dutch commercial air among the benefits for Londoners transport; let me now turn to the promised by the London Transport United States of America. There is "in ita new Bill before Pärliament | widespread misunderstanding of will be the quickening of the In the course of events in that great ner Circle through the Kensington | country, which have certainly deev Stations. Öler beneûts promised both spectacular and worthy of are easier travel East and West by the closest study. The fact is that Underground and quicker services geography gives the United States a unique held for the development It involves several interesting de to the Outer Buburbs, partures from present practice,
of internal air transport-and the conditions which have governed and gives instantaneous warning of the immediate area of the out-politan jine is a pipposed new tube this development are quite unlike break of fire on the bridge and at between Finchley Road and Baker anything else in the world. It is, any other strategic point. The Street. It will be over two miles of course our plain duty to watch unit is housed in a steel tube, ap- long and will be made under the the progress of commercial air proximately 3' ins in diameter byenstung railway. Finchley Road transport in America with the clos 14 ins, in fength, and can be fitted Station will be rebuilt and the tube est attention and, more particular- and finished in harmony with any station linked with the presently, we must be ready to learn from the very striking technical advan- railway by an escalator. There
ces which have been achieved in are to be two stations on the tube between Finchley Road and Baker that country in the design both of Street one at Swiss Cottage and aircraft and engines.
It would, however, be idle to ima- one at Acacia Road (midway be- tween Marlborough Road and Stine that there can ever be the John's Wood), The Bull includes power for the purchase of addition- al land at Finchley Road station.
There will be extensive altera- flona at Baker Street, where as calators will connect with the n tube. When the tube is ready.
scheme of decoration.
The control panel enables ready observation, and includes a small operating motor or the supply line which causes a rotary switch to bring into action each of the light umite at two minute or any pre- arranged intervals, and indicates which unit is in action.
Fire Near Light Unit in the event of a fire near the light unit, smoke enters the top and obscures the light, causing the
same scope for air transport within these islands as there is in the United States; or that our Imperial air services (though they have before them, in my confident beller, potentialities just as far-reaching. but of a different kind) can ever
conditions Thus, as has been pointed out, our service to Apstra ila will traverse eight foreign coun tries-and we obviously cannot dictate to those countries what organisation, on their ground which so much depends, shall be.
les though, let it be remembered. under wholly different conditions from those governing our Imperial air services.
Economic Condition
But what is the economic condl- tion of air transport in the United States of America? We have just received the first instalments. I the evidence now being given be- fore the Federal Aviation Commis sion appointed to review the whole held of aviation in the Faited States, on account of the general dissatisfaction with the present Etate of affairs-and, particularly. with the "multiplicity of regulat- Ing authorities." One would have thought, from what has been said by the critics, that in the American air transport industry all was for the best in the best of all possible worlds. The leaders of the in- dustry are of a very different opin- ton, Earlier this year the American Government apparently reached the conclusion that even the Unit- d States Exchequer could not con- tinue ita past lavish expenditure on civil aviation; and that the Post omce could not go on carrying such enormous annual losses. In consequence the air mail contract rates were reduced. The result is
air transport industry, in evidence before the Commission only last month, frankly stated that they are on the verge of ruin. I will give you the actual words of three of the leading witnesses.
current to drop. Similarly, ahould there will be through running from operate under equäily favourable that leading representatives of the the lamp cell or current in the sys-Finchley Road to Oxford Circus tem tall, then the amount of cur-Piccadilly, and other parts of the
tube system. rent is lowered or stopped.
Consequently for When the current is normal the multitudes of passengers changing relay on the control panel maves at Baker Street will be avoided. an arm to which is atted a piece At Uxbridge land would be ac- of insulating material, which takes quired compulsorily, if necessary, up the position to prevent two con- under the Bill for a new station tact arms of the alarm bell com- near the High Street. That plan means laying half a new line, and ing together.
Additionally, if any part of the apparatus external to the control panel falls for any reason, warning is also given. M
Arrangements are being made for
East End traffic is to be helped forward by a new Aldgate East (District) station. It is intended to close the present Aldgate East Commercial Road and High Street, Its successor will be made beneath the roadway at the function of Commercial Road and High Street, Whitechapel, and have an island
"Civil Aylation"" Again, 11 has recently been point- ed out that petrol, the largest
4 No Pront The first of them stated that the "were facing huge companies
was no "no visual possibility of monthly deficits" and that there profit." He continued that "most, if not all, of the present companies carrying mail. express and passen- gers by air, in the United States, can continue only so long as their capital reserves hold out or unu their officers and stock-holders are no longer willing to permit the con- " tinued rapid dissipation of their money." "The evidence of the sec-
If the current falls below a pre-It is proposed eventually to aban-single item in our air transport determined amount the insulating don the present awkwardly placed costs, is obtainable at about 7d. a. gallon in the United States, as material doese not advance so far, Uxbridge "Station.
compared with something like 2,6d but leaves two contact arms of the
in the case of our Imperial services alarm bell circuit to make con-
as a whole. Nor must we overlook tact, giving audible warning as well
the enormous sums which have as light signal.
been spent on the development of civil aviation in the United States. I say "civil" rather than “commer- clal" advisedly, for I myself am disposed to think so huge an ex- penditure really takes american and was equally emphatic. He said reducing the wiring to the lowest platform. 425 ft. long and 30 ft.
air transport outside the sphere that with some exceptions "the ag- limit consistent with efficiency wide. The programme of work of commercial operation in any regate result of the last few years. The invention is also suitable for contemplated will take several
true sense of the term, whatever of intensive effort has been sub- Warehouse, dock, office and fat years to carry out, and no official developments the fature may hold stantial financial losses." The third. equipment.
giving evidence as recently as the 18th of last month, stated that "at the present rate all the lines will be in bankruptey not later than June 50th, 1938."-
PINERO DIES
SUDDENLY
Famous
Playwright
(Special Alr Mail Service)
London, Nov, 27.
estimate is yet available as to cost.
こ
A BRAVE MAN
Late M. Berthelot
1Special Air Mall Service)
London, Nov. 27.
•
M. Philippe Berthelot, who has died at the age of 88, was a brave
He had angina pectoris and new three years ago that he was doomed to die; yet he never com plained.
Bir Arthur Wing Pinero, the man yeteran play-wright died in a London nursing home. He was 19.
He had been- only a day or two, and he was rushed to the nursing home for an urgent opera- tion. Two hour later he was dead.
None of Sir Arthur's relatives was at his bedside when he pass éd away.
in store. Thus in the American fiscal year 1933 the net loss to the United States Post Omce (in other words the direct subsidy) was in the neighbourhood of £4,750,000
My Lords, these are the methods per annum. The United States Government expenditure on the which in some quarters we are ap development of civil aviation, Inparently being asked to emulate. In short, I repeat that the Unite the seven years spm 1987 to 1933 inclusive reached, if we add the States oders a field for the dever other items of expenditure to the topment of an internal system of amount of subsidies, the stagger-air transport which we could not ing total of £25,000,000. The Ameri- parallel in these islands, even if can technical achievement in this we were to copy their vast expendi- field has indeed been striking; bat I cannot feel any surprise that the view is held in some quarters that it has been dearly bought,
ture. I hope to see a steady dever lopment of air transport in the United Kingdom, but it is in the Empire as a whole that British For what is the real state of commercial air transport, as I see American air transport to-day? It has its greatest future. Our employs a number of machines of problem is in fact fundamentally M Berthelot for 20 years was outstanding performance, and in different from that of internal ale the "power behind the throne in the case of one or two routes it lines in the United States, and the French Foreign Office. But he has express services with very fagi Juggest that we must recognise the had many other interests. He schedule, though those schedules fact and shape our plans accord was an authority on Chinese art. bear as yet but little resemblance ingly. Indeed, when we turn to The dramatist was first an ac- He was the protector of young to what has been widely claimed American external air transport, tor, and made his first appearance literary geniuses like M, Giraudoux for them by some people in this where conditions obtain which are on the stage at the Theatre Royal, and M. Paul Morand, M Alexis country. For example, there has more in parallel with those which Edinburgh, in 1874. Two years Teger, who succeeded him last been talk of services operating for prevail on our Imperial air services, " afterwards he went to the Globe, year as Secretary-general, first years past at speeds in excess of operating as they do through for- London, where fater was staged attracted his attention by a book 200 miles per hour. This is wholly eign countries and often through one of his most successful plays, of prose poems,
wide of the mark. But, erroneous difcult, remote, and sparsely po - The Gay Lord: Quex," S
M. Berthelot never went to the as have been many of the figures pulated territory, we and that the It was while in Irving's com races, but he knew off by heart put into circulation, there is no Americans have found themselves pany that Sir Arthur turned his the pedigree of 20,000 racehorses doubt, as I have said, that the confronted by very similar pro- attention to writing for the stage. Yet when he had a flutter he in American Air Transport Industry blems to those with which we have
His First Feet
variably lost.
has been artificially stimulated by had to contend. In this field, they a vast expenditure of public money, have accepted as inevitable the He was, too, an expert on hand and by a long series of boom hota use of different types of aircraft tions through the medium of which from those employed on internal the small investor, to his great de-services, and, in consequence of
result it is to-day employing regulations, the necessity for triment, poured millions of dollars this and other factors, such as the delays due to customs and passport into the manufacturing industry.
For his first play he received a set of shirt studs, for his second £5, and for his third-a plece called £200 par Year"-Bir Henry
writing
little
Asia and the Empire A big response to the appeal of Irving gave him 50 guineas English, was an old friend of the
M. Berthelot, who spoke
After his success with The Strachey family. His Brst visit to
Scottish regiments for new recruits
is expected in Glasgow as a result Money Spinner be forsook the England was as a guest of the some remarkable aircraft in the terially slower time schedules.
of the stirring spectacular. Darade stage and seriously turned his at- Stracheys.
of the 2nd Battalion Black Watch through the city in a recruiting
effort
The parade, which was 500 strong, was under the command of Major AK MacLeod, the "acting commanding officer. The weather was ideal for the march, which took place from Maryhill Barracks through the city to George Squarn whats the Lord Provost took the anlute vide
tention to the writing plays, With this play and "Daisy's BS-
At lunch he was placed next to cape" he struck a new note in Sir Richard Strachey, a general with a formidable record in India. During the meal the general never spoke.
farce.
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray and Iriz" were others of his re- markably prolific output of plays.
in life?"
operation of some very fast schedu
DUKE OF KENT'S ALLOWANCE
(Bpecial Air Mall Service)
London, Nov. 21.
Mr.
M'Govern's
effort to raise controversy the increased allowance
ma
(To Be Continued To-merrow)
King's family were finally settled. by the Civil List Act of 1910.. Se Terms of the Act
.... Under the heading, Provision for His Majesty's younger children, the Act states.
where shall be paid to the trus tees hereinafter ment
At last, with the conce, the One of his lust, full plays WAS
guest, general The Enchanted Cottage, a post- "Well, sir, and what is your work
turned to war effort which did not succeed at the time but which has been revived by repertory companies, Berthelot replied that he was The departure from the barracks and was done by the Brandon Director of adds in the French the Duke of Kent on his marriage Majesty I was shortly before eleven o'clock | Thomas Company before the King Poreign Offee
and the parade was seen by a great and Queen in Edinburgh last sen many business people, who throng- | 2017-
ed the streeta to watch the men He wis knighted by King Ed
pass.
Asia??" said the general;"
has
be
the rua
suppose you mean the British Prin Expired
"iy
£15,000 in respe