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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1936.
AVIATION
· MAINTENANCE OF | AIRWAY NOTES
AERODROMES
IN
Design Of Utmost NewsF
Importance
It has been said that the future
of aviation iles on the ground, and there is certainly no doubt that the design of aerodromes and air- ports is a matter of the utmost im- portance for the efficient opera- tion of air services.
As far as Great Britain is con- cerned very considerable progress has been made during the last few years in the provision of suitable aerodromes. though previously the country was equipped In this direction, many of the sites being left over from the War and proving quite unsuitable for the air tra- velling public of to-day. The latest examples. however. are se- cond to none and bear compari- 3007 with the best work in any country.
Apart altogether from the build- ings and equipment at a modern airport, the preparation and main- tenance of the ground itself calls for expert knowledge and treat- ment In the first place the pre- paration of the landing ground may entail ploughing and grading with special machines designed for the purpose, As an example. there is a Ransomes rotary scraper for taking away the top soil and transporting it to any required spot, produced by the Ipswich firm of agricultural implement makers; the quantity of earth collected can be varled up to about 27cu. ft., and When the required amount is in the bowl, collection automatically ccases.
Again an aëredrome can be et- Aciently drained without distur- bing the surface by means of mule drainers, and these machines can be effectively utilised for burying electric cables up ton, diame- ter. The clectric ght and tele- phone installations on an Aero- drome necessitate many cables, and it is essential for the safety of aircraft that these should, as far as possible, be laid underground.
MAKERS
PROMISE
SILENT CARS
Pledge To Minister To Prevent Noise
NEW TASTES IN SPORTS TYPES .
Makers of motor-cars have fol- Jowed the example of motor- cycle manufacturers in giving an assurance
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Minister of Transport that they will allow no noisy vehicles .to leave their works.
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In the Ministry's view. I now only remains to ensure that these vehicles, quiet in themselves, are not made opensive by the way they are handled.
Silence of operation has shown a great advance in recent years, Even sports cars can now be per- fectly quiet when running on top gear at the legal speed in built-up areas, and the best remain rea- sonably quiet when driven at their maximum speed..
The taste for machine-gun-or pompom" exhaust noises is dying, and is now mainly confined to the racing track.
But there are motor noises which still need suppression. They are due to:
Thoughtless or selfish drivers who race their cagines unneces- sarily in suburban roads before starting;
Drivers who climb gradients fast in indirect gears at night; Il-used amall sports cars mak ing unnecessary mechanical and exhaust noises through lack of attention;
Light vans driven by youths for suburban tradespeople; and A but the lastest and most up-to-date buses. The Ministry of Transport had threatened to make new regula- tions enforcing quietness in motor vehicles unless manufacturers took action.
I
ments
Air
AIR AMBULANCE
WORK IN CANADA
Not long ago information Forthcoming as to the rapidly-in. creasing use of ambulance-planes in Australia, and now data
|FAST TRAVEL BY FLYING DOCTORS
AIR AND SEA OF AUSTRALIA
beFour Thousand Miles What Air-Liner
From All Quarters comes available as to the recent
work of similar machines in Canada, During a couple of
doctors to visit
The Indian Meteorological De-months, just lately, in addition to partment are now making experi- many fights by
at Sharjah with pilotless patients in remote areas, the cases weather balloons which are being reported in Canada included:-a | sent up at night, the resulting data fight of nearly 400 miles with an being communicated to headquar- urgent stretcher case; rescuing a ters at Agra... «
slek man whose distress signals had been observed on the shores of a lonely lake; and a flight of nearly 800 miles to bring in to hospital an Indian who had a badly-polsoned leg.
Figures made avaliable by, the Indian authorities show that 10.-
500,000 letters were sent by air fróin Great Britain to India dur- ing 1935. This compared with 6,000,000 in 1934, and 1.000.000 in. 1933.
During the mos; recent twelve- monthly period for which figures are available, the air-liners of Im- perial Airways flew a total dis- Lance, of 5,000,000 miles, this com- paring with approximately 3,000.- 000 miles for previous period of
12 months.
Air-lines in the United States carried 968.185 passengers during 1935. This compared with 516,235 for the year 1933.
Twenty-ave electric boundary lights are now in operation at the Jodhpur air-station, being about 98 yards apart round the perime- ter of a circle 1,000 yards in diame- ter, leaving a gap for approach to the buildings and hangars.
A full aerodrome lighting equip- ment has been installed at Penang alr-port. This lighting system comprises three Bloodlights, aero- dronie boundary-marking lights. obstruction lights, and an illund- nated wind **T.**
The cutting of a grassover an ex- tensive area is too obvious a part uf aerodrome maintenance to re- quire emphasis, except possibly to add that gang mowers. drawn by tractors. enable large areas to be cut in the shores: possible time, as much as 11 acres an hour being within their scope.
NEW FORD CAR MODEL
More Miles To A Gallon
At a lunch given recently in the Dorchester Hate by the Ford Motor Company the completion of a new Ford V8 22-h.p. model was un- Counced. Like the previous 22-hp. car, it has been built at Dagenham,
ir Malcolm Campbell said that he had tried the new model on
NEW AIR-PORT FOR
NEW YORK
That Goverrior's Island should be converted into an air-port to serve New York is a tecommendation which has been made by the Am- erican House of Representatives. The island. located just off the lower end of Manhattan, is at the
present time an army station. The proposal is.. to reclaim about 85 acres of land. At present the is land is two or three minutes from Manhatten by launch. but there is a scheme for the construction of a trame tunnel from the Battery to Brooklyn which would be made to pass under the north end of Gov- ernor's Island.
LAND-SEA-AIR PORT AT SINGAPORE
In Five Days
Passengers Saw
When, not long ago, one of the on the England-Aus- tralia route landed åt Longreach, the passengers who emerged' from its saloon saw that one of the am-
Four thousand miles, from Now York to Central Europe, in five | air-liners days! That was the record achie ved by the recent test in which 3 specially-chartered Imperial Airways air-liner met the liner "Queen Mary" at Cherbourg, and flew with a party of passengers via Pails, Zurich. Munich, and Vienna to Budapest
most
bulunce-planes of the Australian Aerial Medical Service was drawn up in front of the hangar.
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going to the door of the flying am- bulance, saw that the patient, ly- ing inside on a stretcher, was, a Httle girl aged only about three years. This tiny sufferer had, it appeared. sustained burns in an accident at
an outlying station. and the doctor had Hown out to treat her and to bring her in by air-ambulance to hospital.
The flying doctor who was with the ambulance-plane asked the passengers of the air-liner whe- Further detalls are now avaliable ther they would like to see his as to this remarkable demonstra-patient. They said they would and." tion, which showed in a convincing fashlen how fast and luxurious air connections with ocean liners can now be provided. to the principal cities of Europe.
"As 'soor as the "Queen Mary" reached Cherbourg, the party which were tu make the 1,020 miles' night to Budapest were conveyed by motor-launch to the aerodrome at Querqueville. After entering the waiting alr-liner, the first section of their fight was from Cherbourg to Paris. This stage. 209 miles, was completed in just over an hour and a quarter, at an average speed of 188 miles- an-hour. After being welcomed at the Paris air-port of Le Bourget, the next stage was one of 308 miles to Zurich on arcute skirted by the Vosges and Black Forest
to the North and the Jura Moun- tains to the South. Zurich was reached at lunch-time, and those who me; the party found it hard to belleve that, at breakfast-time that same morning, the aerial voyagers had been over 500 med
on the "Queen Mary" away Cherbourg.
With an equipment which will provide the latest facilities for both land and marine aircraft, the new air-port at Singapore is well on the way to completion. A seaplane slipway and, hangar for the new Empire flying-boat is taking, shape rapidly: while steelwork for the terminal buildings has been erect-tance ed, and a concrete apron latd. A special system of runways will fa- citate the ascent and descent of land machines.
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Next they flew over Lake Coli- stance along a line north of the Bavarian Alps to Munich," a dis-
of 144 miles, which was covered in less than an hour, After more greetings at the splendid Munich air-port, the party were of again in the direction of Vien-
MOTOR
CARS OF 1937
New Wolseleys And
B.S.A. Scout
The air-liner passengers express- ed their very great interest at having this opportunity of seeing, a practical demonstration of the wonderful work which is done in Australia by the doctors.
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na. This proved a fascinating Hight, following the wide curves of the Danube with mountain- peaks stretching away" to the south.
It was between Munich and Vienna that the air-liner reached a speed of over 170 miles-an-hour at a height of 7,000 feet. The final 135 miles from Vienna to Buda- pest was covered in exactly An hour-a wonderful view being ob- tained from the air of the roman- tic city of Budapest. This re- markable fight was chronicled the ' same night by a broadcast from the Budapest wireless and by a special commemoration dinner.
JOTTINGS
unusually smoothly, while being fast in acceleration and maximum speeds. Eighty miles an hour can be had on top, and about 60 and 40 on third and second. The price of the 25 h.p. "salon de ville" is £425 and that of the 14-56 h.p. model £295,
The Fourteen saloon is due for review here
the shortly. Here capacity of "the 6-cylinder engine 13 1,818 C.C. The quarter lights are binged for draughtless ventilation, The sportsman's four-door saloon
station,
NON-SKID ROADS
How Accident Statistics
Could Be Reduced
The news that a non-skid aur- face is to be laid in Victoria Street, London, "comes as some- 511prise. Victoria
Street has been a death-trap for the unwary for 35 years, and one had grown to accept it as one of
Three new Wolseley models are designed to meet a peculiar de- mand. The
thing at a cars are salons "de ville of 25 h.p. and 14 h.p, and a 2. 150-mile drive. He emphasis- sportsman's saloon. In the 25 points-hp, "salon de ville" the aim has its engine was 1781b. been to produce a town 'carriage which could be used as a fast touring saloon.
ed. certain of its
that
lighter than that of the Larger 30-h.p. V 8; that in its un- usually placed "boot" (which was behind the back seat and which Was opened by tilting the seat for- ward) there was room for two or three suitcases; and that the car could hold six people. Its makers. he said, estimated its maximum speed at 70-75 m.p.h.; downhill he had touched 20 mph. The petrol consumption of the old model had been 10 to 21 miles to the gallon; this model would do 25 to 28. and its mileage per gallon of oil was 2.500. For this, as for previous Ford models, the system of engine exchange would be con- tinued. He had found the steer-
and chicken pox-to which desh
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is on the 25 h.p. chassis and costs the inevitable is-like mumps
£425. This third new model is de- finitely modern in appearance, be-is her. ing low and graceful, with a length Let us hope that the resurfacing suggestive of speed. It is built to of Victoria Street is evidence of tare four persons comfortably, or the awakening of road puthorities. needs of modern traffic. five if necessary, and there is good to the
almost unbelievable amount space for luggage. There are four doors and the rear ones do not of nonsense has talked and spoil the lithe look. This is a written concerning the impossibi- model which should have a widelity of making road surfaces rea- appeal to the motorist who likes sonably' non-skid in wet weather. Autocar" yetre **The speed in his car, with a sporting For many
this has challenged
pessimism. Without claiming an expert know- ledge we do not possess. we have of asserted that an admixture some rough substance such
appearance.
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B.S.A. SCOUT
The BB.A. Scout car programme for 1937 is concentrated on the 10
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Good balance in the lines has been achieved. The doors are high and wide, and the back axle has a generous track to give an adequate seat for three persons. When only two travel here a broad softly
padded armrest gives lateral support. The wilden- ed track allows the springs to be set well apart, and this in turn minimizes any tendency to roll on corners, The front adjustable seats are devised to give proper anatomical support, and there are armrests. The seat springs are as- siated with Dunlopillo overlays, h.p. model in three different body sand, with the surfacing material There are footrests for the back styles
would give a guarantee against originally passengers, all six side window brought out as a Nine, and suc-skidding--a guarantee which would Ing rather Eght-it is a little light- glasses are movable, there are ceeded the B.SA. three-wheelers' be enduring and not merely valid i
while the top dressing was new. louvres to give ventilation in wet. having the same main transmis- weather, and a sliding roof is fitted. slon features, which are now in- "We repeat that all road could; The doors have double safety cat- corporated in the 10 h.p. Scout, at reasonable cast, be rendered ches, and the equipment includes This machine has a 4-cylinder skid-proof, and we are confident water-cooled engine of 1.203 cc. that by making them so the high- way authorities would be taking a front wheels, by which means a long step towards what we all propeller shaft to the back axle is desire the reduction
casualties: avoided and additionally low build made possible. Other chassis re- Anements include independent
er than that of the earlier models. but this appealed to many peo,
ple.
Mr. A. Hall, the sales manager
of the company, announced the ashtrays, electric lights in the
This
WELK
price of the car as £210. At pre-, quarters, twin tuned horns, dual capacity, and the drive is to the sent, he said only a four-door, screen wipers, self-cancelling traf- saloon model was being made Acators, a telescopic steering model
was shown in the column with an 18. spring wheel. hotel. It has a compact body, ¦ and, in addition to two beadlamps, partly streamlined. It has no sild- two pass lights on the front bumi- ing sunshine roof. A good feature per cross bar, two parking lights, of its dashboard equipment men- tioned by Sir Malcolm Campbell is Its new all and temperature gauge, by which a red light appears to warn of a sinking in the oll pres- sure or an excessive increase in the heat of the engine. The total weight of the car is 23ewt.
of road
front wheel springing a chro-transmission. The two-seater a name badge light, diffused light-mium-plated sloping radiator grill costs £159 10s, the four-seater ing of the instruments, and rear. and front bumper, a flexible form sports tourer £169 103., and a two- stop, and reversing lights. - The 25 of engine mounting” and a petrol | seater toupé, complete with recess- hp. six-cylinder engine is of 3485 tank at the back with a mechani-ed traffic indicators, sunshine roof. cc capacity and is stated to de-cally worked fuel pump Sporting and other closed car fittings, £135. velop 100 h.p. on the brake at lines can be given to the three | The makers give the maximum, 3800 r.o.m. I have tried the Twenty models by reason of the long bon- |-speed as 65/70 m.ph, The tax Five saloon and know that it runs net which covers the engine and is £7 10s. ›
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