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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1936.
AVIATION
AIR-MAILS OF EMPIRE
Next Year's Great Scheme Explained
INTER-IMPERIAL COMMUNICATION
As great a milestone in communication and in some respects a greater one-than ` the introduction of the penny post nearly a hundred years ago, is heralded by progress with "Canopus". the first of the new fleet of Imperial Airways, flying-boats. This 18. ton aircraft, and 27 sister-ships which are also in construction, will inaugurate a new era in inter-Imperial communication. They will, as they come into service next year, give effect to the decision of the Government to carry first-class letter mails in bulk by air on the Empire routes.
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At the present time, from Lon-
don to Calcutta, a surface trans-
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NEW ERA OF FLYING
In a
PLANES ORDERED
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New Date For London- Johannesburg Race
Famous Air Aces Int
£10,000 Contest
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and its commencement to enable me to build a special machine to compete, and as a result the types which figured in the King's Cup Air Race will be the principal entrants in the Johannesburg race
In order to give pilots who are competing in the London-Juhan- nesburg air race the benefit of the About a dozen entries are expect- full moon for night flying, the Ro-ed, and the probable starters in- yal Aero Club has announced that clude:- the race will now begin on Nov. 29, instead of Nov. 15.
Although the majority will welf come, this alteration in the start- ing date, some pilots who are cer- tain starters are bewalling the change, as they prefer complete darkness, and rely on their flyine instruments.
In view of the fact that the race is mainly intended to speed up air communications between England and South Africa, it would seem'a better test if the date had not beer altered. Again, it would be a ster- ner test of the navigating capabil- itles of the pilots if the night flying was dimeult
KING'S CUP PLANES
The time has been too short he- tween the announcement of the
Other routes
followed and. When Rowland Hill advocated
aircraft improved in size. speed. the penny post he promised that
No story is more interesting. or and reliability. attention began to it would furnish an Improved
more important, than that which be turned to long-range services methcd of communication
has led progressively, stage by stage, between England dad various parts d'stant relatives tween
from early experiments in alt-mail of the Empire. In 1923 a Govern- friends and would give an
transport to this new era of day- ment Comm'ttee. reviewing the creased energy to trade; and
and-night Mying. Looking back whole position, recommended that that ideal-using the fastest means into the past one finds that, with-la the development of Empire alr of transport available-has always na 'year of the Introduction of transport one national organisation been the guiding principle of the the penny post. the balloonist should be created. assisted by the Post Office. From coach to train. Gypson was dropping a stamped State over a period of years, and
aiz while from the from salling ship to steam, and letter
having the ability to unfold a comprehensive. clear-cut scheme from surface transport to the fight over Lympne: while as far
3.5 1870 the Post Office in respect of air craft, organisa- highways of the air, the demand i back
'ssued an officia! handbill showing tion, and routes... has been for speed, and still more
how people could send letters to speed.
Paris by pigeon-post during the stege at that city. After this came
giving In the following year, further tests with balloons.. air-
effect to these suggestions, came
directions right through over a "port journey occuples 16 days, and ship, and early-type aeroplanes; į the establishment of Imperial
and to Sydney. Australia.. 31 days, By and then in 1911 the Post Office Airways. Active preparations fol- route, connecting London
Brisbane. Feeder services were existing air-mall schedules these gave Its official sanction to
lowed on the routes to India and of trials with aeroplanes Africa. times are reduced to 61, 8i and series
and also established. West Africa and New land-planes more than 100.000 ying-boats
ordered Air Hong Kong were brought i 12) days respectively. And what during which
letters and postcards were flown
Services of the st faster services which
ports. wireless, and meteorological aerial" network. between Hendon and Windsor. will become possible with the air-
services were established, and by duplicated until air-liners 1927 A
first link was flying be flying twice-weekly in each direc- craft of the new air-mall scheme?
Even during the Great War the
tween Cairo and Basra, Two | tion between London and Johan; Here one rean quote the Under- question of mails by al was not
years later the London-Karachi nesburg. and twice-weekly. also Secretary of State for Air. Sir overlooked. and the Civil Aerial
service Was In operation; and right through from England to Philip Sassoon who, when out Transport Committee. on which after that came the route between Australla. lining the new project in the sat experts from the Post Office. England and South Africa. House" of Commons, sald the aim was engaged in 1917, in drawing. was to reduce the transit time to up plans for a post war use of Loads increased, on the Empire India to just over two days. to aeroplanes in the regular carriage air-lines: while extensions of the bring East Africa within 21 days of of letters. Soon after the war India service were pushed through came the first London-Paris alr to Calcutta. Rangoon, and Sin- service. and this, within a lew gapore. Australia was, of course. months of its inception. obtained the goal in such extensions, and an official contract to carry is by the end of 1934 it became pos-
sible to Majesty's Malls.
carry air-loads
the Homeland. to reduce to four days a journey to the Cape, and tr "bring Australia within a week of England,
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MOTOR
were
JOTTINGS
NEW CAR PROGRAMMES
Aeronautical Practice In
Engine Construction
SMALL CARS, HIGH SPEED
In both
Almost all the manufacturers have now announced their new car programmes; the new models will show interesting improvements. Outwardly there is no great change, nor was any expected; in the matter of power production and transmission there is no radical innovation, but in detail there is much advance. The programmes are interesting apart from this.
It has been a common experi- car which might be only cnce that sales during the past season have been unusually good, in many
cases output has gone beyond what was originally plan- ned, and as a consequence prices of many of the new models are re-
sometimes duced,
substantially. (In some cases prices had already been lowered, and accordingly re- main unaltered for the new pro- duction. The prophets had been assuring us that prices must go up because of the big increase in de- mand for steel and other material for armament purposes.
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HIGH CRANKSHAFT
were
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Mrs. Mollison, Percival Vega Gull
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Mr. Mollison, Mew Gull. Fight-Lieut: Tommy Rose, B.A. Double Eagle,
Mr. Campbell Black, Mew Gull, Major, A.-W. Miller, Mew Gull. Mr. Ken Waller and Mr. Max Finlay, Airspeed Envoy
Mr. Buckingham, De Havil land` product.
Mr. Victor Smith, Miles Spar- rowhawk.
The first prize will be 24,000. and there are other, prizes of £3,- 000, £1,500. £1,000, and £500.
There will be speed and handicap caces, both to run at the same time. The prizes, are presented by Mr. I. W. Schlesinger, the South African magnistu.
Atlantic link with the air services of Canada and the United States, The Pacific is also being opened up for commercial Air traffic,
In seventeen years, since the inception of the first Faris service. the flying-mail has developed into an Empire network from Great Britain to Egypt, Africa, India, Malays. China, and Australia: while the curtain is now about to rise on that still greater phase when the air-mail will be at the, Empire's service as Д normal. routine 'Yacility. without any mileage of the world's air-mails special charges being imposed for days and weeks that has grown to over 225.000 in 1936. the hours. and. in addition to progress east- will be saved-as compared with ward across the Empire, Impérial surface transport-by the swift Airways are now preparing for | carriage of bulk loads in day-and- experiments which will furnish an night flights.
MILEAGE INCREASE
From 3,000 miles in 1919, the
New Tests For
Private Cars
DRIVERS LIABLE TO BE STOPPED
Very shortly private motorists will be liable at any
time to be stopped on the roads and their cars subjected to tests to see whe- ther brakes,' steering-gear and silencers are up to standard."
Draft regulations to this effect have been circulated by Mr. Hore- Belisha, Minister of Transport, to the motoring organisations. The Minister's object is increased road safety. His proposals are being criticised on the score of expedi- ency.
Fears are expressed in some quarters that we may see long queues of cars waiting their turn for inspection, that the examinera will be police constables lacking the necessary expert traluing, or that motorlats may be held up by persons pretending to be examiners for nefarious purposes.
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QUESTION OF UNIFORM
The Society of Motor Manufac- turers and Traders is pressing the Minister to amend the regulations so that the... testing shall not be done by police officers, unless they have been specially trained for the purpose. They would prefer that the present staff of examiners, now engaged on similar tests of com- mercial vehicles, should be aug- mented. Some of the
motoring organisations have always held that no one should have the right to stop a vehicle on the road un- less he is in uniform.
Cars and motor-cycles are al- ready able to be stopped by the police for examination of tyres and other accessories or components. The new regulations go a step fur- ther in including steering-gear.
It is generally agreed that, to be effective, the tests must be much more thorough than the cursory inspection of a constable on the road side.
a few, rano" la a factor in the present- months old. The process. has not cay small car with which makers been satisfactory to the purchaser, have made extraordinary progress. for it affected the depreciation The high-speed crankshaft revolu- tion achieved to-day in cars of value of a car that could not be called old. Under the new policy small power, along with robustness, improvements are to be made only a remarkable." when tests have justified their
and the like, a small tar ought to sure an equalised pull on all the adoption; modlications will
Yet whether this high, crank-pull steadily and well over a wide brake drums, and power of retar- longer be put out in mass form to shart rate, with consequent capa- range, say from 25 to 35 miles an dation is higher. The adjustable 1 column- convey the impression that here is city for fast travel on
the road, hour. It too often happens to-day steering-wheel. with a new car. The policy, is boldly
is the true line of development is that a check which brings down head sliding for some inches, a announced by Morris Motors, who to be questioned. We have reach- speed to some 25 miles an hour boon where there is more than one state that they are against changed a point when 10-hp, cars, and means a change down to work up driver to a car. is a common fea- ing models merely with the object even those of smaller power, can enough crankshaft speed to get ture. Seats are now made to con- of creating new designs. It is do sixty, even up to seventy, miles back into top gear, and to a higher, form - with the human figure so hinted at in other announcements: an hour on the road. Excellent as speed, again. This is one of the that driving fatigue is lessened: Btill more interesting, and matter that will be welcomed by Í SMALL CARS AND HIGH SPEED a performance, but one not to be disadvantages of the modern high- owners, is the charge in output The smail car is still to pre- maintained it only because road speed small engine, and it should policy indicated by the makers.dominate. Many models of 10 hp. conditions do not allow of it; and, be remedied. There is to be no "period" produc- or under are announced, and the agairy, not desirable because It that the small "engine is tion; that is to say, after one technical detalls suggest robustness means batch of models has emerged from; with reliability. A point that will running to full capacity. It is a the factory there will be no small not catch the eye of the owner is performance capacity which gives change in design for the purpose that this robustness owes much to of creating so-called new designs. the adoption of aeronautical prac- In the past this practice has given tice in engine construction, a fea- us models produced, say, in the ture in which Armstrong Siddeleys early part of the year and super-have led the way. This elves in- seded at a later period by models creased power output without any similar except for slight detall. appreciable increase in weight. model has outdated a ana, in fact, the power-to-weight The new
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moreover, they can not only be slid backwards or forwards, but tilted to the most comfortable angle, Narrower body pillars re duce obstruction to the view of the driver, and in numerous Utile ways the needs of the driver and the comfort of the passengers have of its job and with some reserve attention has been given to spring- been considered. It is all detail in hand. at forty miles an hour ing, and the lighter short-wheel- improvement, but in the sum it is. or thereabouts, but pulling less base cars, always the more senal- so appreciable that one almost sweetly and less sturdily at thirty tive to road inequalities, will now feels apologetic in suggesting that miles an hour or less. In modern ride more smoothly. Brakes have accessibility, as provided down to road conditions, with the increas- increased in efficiency. Various five or six years ago, would be, a ing density of traffic, speed-limits, devices and braking systems en- boon to the owner-driver.
NEW IMPROVEMENTS The new cars, of course, conform to the regulations affecting the Considerable an engine doing best, well on top dipping of lights.
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