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NEW SYSTEM OF SHIP PROPULSION
There are six blades in the pro- las" will be in service on the canals
of Venice.
BLADES INSTEAD peller group, and with twin groups
: OF SCREWS
First Steamers Ordered
300 ft.
a vessel of up to about length can make a complete turn In less than a minute and in ittle more than her own length.
The chief advantages are greater propulsive efficiency. with less power than either screw or paddle, ense of manoeuvring, moru Almost exactly one hundred manoeuvring capabilities (0.8 years ago the first successful sideways movement), and reduc- screw-propelled sea-going steamier tion of time lag between the giv- -the British-owned and bullting of a bridge order and its Arenfriedes-was constructed by execution, due to the direct con- Henry Wimshurst at Limehouse, on
trol. the Thames, and from that time onwards the screw has steadily
ousted the paddle from all except "a few special types of service.
Until quite recently, no further practical advance in the science of marine propulsion--barding refne- ments and improvements of the screw-had been made.
Lately, however, there happened something which may well prove as revolutionary a development as| was the decision to ft screw pro- pellers to the Archimedes
Two British steamship Com)- panies, both, with long experience of both paddies and screws in their particular trades, have pizced orders for passenger-carrying ›ves- sels fitted with the Valth- Schneider system at propulsion.
NO RUDDER
The
THE PIONEERS
compantes which arë pioneering this Invention in Great Britain are the Southampton, Isle of Wight, and South of England steam, Packet Company and the Southern Railway. The Isle of Wight Company have placed with John 1. Thornycroft and Co.. Southampton, an order for a passenger vessel 195 it, long by 30 ft. beam, fitted with two 800 h.p. Diesels, each driving a six-bladed Volth-Schneider propeller.
iz This ship-with which the Southern Railway one will be the first in service in this country— will: have a speed of "15, knots, and will be employed in the regular service between Southampton and Cowes.
The Southern Railway have or- This new system, of German in-dered a slightly smaller vessel from vention and now being exploited William Denny Brothers, Dum- Under licence in this country. is barton. She wil, measure 148 ft. entirely novel. It consists of a by 36 ft., and will have two 200 h.p. circular group or vertical curved Diesels, each driving a six-bladed blades projecting from beneath the propeller. She will be used as a cutaway counter stern of the vés-; passenger and motor-car ferry be sel, Thèse are geared to the shaft tween Lymington and Yarmouth of the main engine, which can be (L. of W... of any type, but is usually a Diesel, and not only does the whole group of blades revolve in either direc- tlon, "but each blade is separately movable on its own axis.
Thus, with a simple set of three combined controls operated by one man on the bridge, the ship can be made to go fast or slow, ahead, astern, or even sideways-like a
crab-and can also be steered in any direction, no rudder being re- quired.
MODERN VIEW OF SIN
A Mere Incident"
1s
Voith-Schneider propulsion ideal for navigation in crowded and. narrow waterways, and for this reason it has already attained considerable popularity on the Continent in the past year. Germany has several tugs and small passenger vessels itted with the invention on Lake Constance and the Rharie; France has a few passenger launches on the Loire at summer Nantes, and early this Kix Voith-Schneider motor “gando-
8,000 ON STRIKE IN SHIPYARD
יו
Threat Of Scottish Coal Stoppage
More than 700 apprentices of "Sin has come to be regarded in Messrs. John Brown and Com- the modern mind as a mere in-pany's shipyard at Clydebank call- cident in an evolutionary process" ed. a lightning strike three hours This was one of the findings the Oxford Conference of Evangs lical Churchmen, issued after the Anal session of the conference at St. Peter's Hal. Oxford, recently The finding adds: "The facts of judgment and punishment Bre simly put on one side."
after they had started work in sympathy with 3.000 Clydeside ap- prentices who are now idle in sup- port of their demand for á standard rate of pay, states the "Dally Mall"
Apprentices in two other Glas- Low, firms--Messrs. James How- den and Company. Ltd., and
Watson Messrs. Mirclees
and Company, Ltd.-also "downed tools," bringing the army of 'boys ΠΟΥ Idle to more than 6,000, Twenty-five shipyard and engi- neering, firmas spread over Clyde- side are affected,
The conference also recognises that in spite of much advance in thought and. conduct "the distaste for that dogmatic theology which has long acted 2.8 a moral astringent "has weakened both the sense of duty and the moral ap- peal of the Christian faith and produced a condition of softness
Many of the youths at Messrs. and emotionalism. It is the re- John Brown's have been sharing sponsibility of the Church to face in the preliminary work on the this situation with a positive faith. | new liner No. 552, aister ship of preached positively "
The conference, however, "in humble thankfulness to Almighty God, recognises the underlying steadiness of the English people in the face of deep moral and spiritual Issues. It believes that this steadiness is not the least of the fruits of the English Reforma- tion."
. In another finding, the confer-
the Queen Mary, na well as the propelling machinery for four de- stroyers new being built.
The 2,000 engineers on strike at the Parkhead forge of Messrs. William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., have applied for Public Assistance payments..
A deputation from the strikers was received by the Public Assis- tance Committee of the Glasgow
that 2 special sub-committee
ence alludes to the intimate rela-City Council, and it was decided tion of the English, State with the should be formed to confer with
the Unemployment Assistance Board to discover what rellet,: Ir any, can be given.
English Church and the latter's position of responsibility. "At this particular time." says the con- ference, “the Church has a spe-
Falling a new agreement with cial responsibility to uphold the Christian standard of morals in
the coalowners, "safety men" in Scottish mining Industry relation to marriage and the due the performance of all contractual ob- threaten to come out on strike on ligations."
May B.
In addition, the Yorkshire Mine- It continues: "The Great Church-universal on earth has workers' Association and the Scot- tish Mineworkers' Union decided
in these days a new responsibility to support by strike action if
to the world. The anti-Christian
necessary the miners at Karworth forces challenge the Christian!
Colliery, Nottinghamshire, who faith with a pureness of ideal pas since last November have been Blon for material amelioration seeking recognition of their union, that cannot be denied: yet they the Mineworkers' Federation." provide no exective belief in im-
Increases of wages ranging from mortality, recognise no interveṇ-"
tion by a supernatural power and a halfpenny to three-farthings an no moral imperative: they offer hour were accepted on behalf of no redemption, and have no pos- the 8,000 employees of Scottlan
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short of the love of God in Christ
that love.”
Londoners may be interested" to learn
that the design of these Venetian gondolas is exactly the
SKME
as that which would have been used for the Thames "water buses" which the London Trans- port Board and the LC.O. vetoed last year...
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