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THE BEAN "FOURTEEN"
Although introduced to the public only as recently as the Olympia Show of 1923, the
BEAN
"FOURTEEN"
is not in any sense an untried car.
Actually, two years of time and very nearly 200.000 miles of testing were spent in satisfy- ing-the experts that it expressed to the high- est possible degree the ideals of the discriminat. ing Owner-driver. In its finally approved form, the Bean "Fourteen" is a British achievement of more than average interest.
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· RADIO NOTES 'AND NEWS. The Night Watch
A marine wiroless operator Outside of those most im writes to one of the Home portant parts, the set consists of paper:-
the following regular Inatrü- Loud and clour in the tala-ments: phones, easily road above the One 6-ohm rhgostat: " thunder of a fow tons of water
Our grid loak, 2 niegobius, and rashing down upon the foe's'le anodonuer,,00025 mfd. hoad, como the signals of a near. by ship raporting to Land's End:
Here the 1.8. Nonsuch, from Liverpool for Far East, via Port One open circuit jack, or & Said and Colombo. Twenty-five closed circuit jack If an amplifor miles 8. W., of your station. is added. Or, two phone binding Have you anything for me 7" posts.
One tube Bookat.
Ono switch, four switch points) and two stopa.
Faintly, from the distant East! Six other binding posts for Coast, comes the high noto of aerial, ground and batteries. Cullareonts, calling ships at sea A 7 by 15-inch panol, with for whom he has wireless mes-corresponding cabinot,
agos. Land's End and Valiant,
Connecting bus wiro.
Clearance Sale
of the latest Parisian
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AND
Hats
at 25% reduction.
low and high, work in tnensi Either a UV-200 or a WD-11 or Les Elegances de Paris,
handling radio telograms to and WD-12 tube may be used.
from vessels of all kinds, frog The operation is as simple ap the little tramps of Cardiff and any other-shnilar circuit-Put the Tyne reporting to their the switch knob on the paint. owners, up to the 4413241 leading to the extremo and of the
Turn telegrams of paanongers on the primary oil.
On the crack "flieru of thá¡ Western rheostat until light his is Ocean trade.
hoard, then turn buck until hiss From far to the southward disappears. With a dry battery rings the unmistakable not yž tube, the filament should show a Gibraltar, handling ships salt dull red glow.
and west of the Pillars of Hor With the tickler dial at zaro, culos. Stations from far Oran- rotate the condensor until a ain-el-Turck, by the shores of the station is hoard. Thon the tłoklor blue Mediterranean, up to in turned to strengthen tho signal. Ostond, and beyond talk through If the sigual becomes weakor the night, transacting the affairs instead of stronger, rovere the of ships and mon, while vessels tickler connections,
of all nationalities in that contre If some station happens to of arrivals and departures around interfore, turn the switch levor the British Isles carry on thoir to the second point and re-tuno business, occasionally making with condenser and ticklor dials. the night hideous with their But bost reception will be obtain- clamour.
od with the entire length of the primary coil.
The other is never still: but a slight cessation suddenly comoś in the continuous stream of Morse as a land station is heard, in- Cossuntly and nonotonously, making the danger signal, and commercial work cases up for a little while to sparo @ fow moments for the safely of those at so.
A dozen messages or so sent out; a score or so received and sent to be delivered; a time-signal takon
and the obronometers chooked: a call transmitted to all stations; and then, the watch few being over, you steal a seconds to change over to a short wave-longth for 2L0.
THOUSANDS LISTEN-IN.
Voice of "Magician" of the Wireless.
Many thousands of people last! month listened by wireless to, the speeches of Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George, broadcast from Westminster Chapol.
A Press' reprosontativo, who listoned in, writes: The oloquence of Mr. Asquith in a sorios of fine tributes to Dr. Clifford lost littlo in transmission, Almost-overy word could be heard distinctly.
Mr. Lloyd Goorge proved him- Faint and sweat come the notes of distant music, played in far-off self again a perfect inagician of London, and you sigh a little the wireless. His words scomod onviously at the recollection of to come to me, and must similarly. bright lights and soft beds ashore. bave come to others scoree, and The cabin door burata opon to in some instances hundreds of the accompaniment of a bluster miles away, clothed with his of angry wind, and your relief personality.
His voice, with its soft cad- entors to take over the watch.
Thus you are left free to uncos, cloar, penetrating tone, wandor along the dack to your Booties pleading, sometimus! quarters, marvelling, as the wet dominant, had such a personal, wind whistles about your ears intimate tone that you felt you: and the spont scas gurgle in the were actually sitting in front of lop-ecuppora, to what malignant him. Nearly every word could force you are actually indebted be heard, and not only heard, but for the unhappy prompting that folt deeply, as though the speaker caused you to follow the profos-was visible. sion of those who go down to the sea in ships."
THE HAYNES CIRCUIT.
Offers Clarity And Distance.
"BROADCASTITIS,"
Disease that Sends Watches Wrong.
An insidious dleoase which is
If, instead of long distance attacking watches and is due to records, clarity and selectivity is the popularity of "listening-in," Hought with a simple receiver, jis numbering its victims in Lon- the Hayzas ciroult can all the don by thousands. bill, says a special.contributor. "Broadenstitis" is no rospec-
than
and tho It is nothing more
of watches, altor simple, throo-circuit regenerative dristocratio fifty-pound timepiece tuner, but it is so constructed which roposes in the will-lined that there is a minimum of loss pockets of stockbrokers and com. or interference and a maximum pay promoters is, suffering in of volume and clearness froin a company with its poor relation, single tubo.
the ten-shilling wrist watch. The,
No. 8, Queen's Road: Central. Lat. Floor
Telophone No. C. 386,
NOTICE TO THOSE WHOSE MARRIAGE WILL SHORTLY TAKE PLACE.
Pictorial records of weddings sie highly desirable.
Call at the MING YUEN STUDIO (Battery Path) and inspect specimen groups,
Upon receipt_of_instructions will will send expect photographer lo any ceremony or function,
(Official Photographers o the Hongkong Telegraph)
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:
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NEW TERROR.
Rocket to Spread Molten Metal.
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At North Forriby, seven miles from Hullrecently, tosta " woro carried out by Mr. Ernest Walsh, a resident, of a winged incendiary rocket which ho has invented, and which it is claimed will when. fired into the air burst and spread a rain of molton motal over an atao of five to eight miles, destroying anything within its range. The British, French and Two parts of the circuit are jeymptoms are a marked tendency American Governments are said important-the inductance and to Inse time or gain it and to be interested in the invention, the variable condenser. For the gonerally erratic behaviour.
cause is principally a definite offor having boon reindustanco, a Haynes 180-degree ceived from an American source: bankwound. variocouptor hae broadcasting, according to the Mr. Welsh has issued a challonge boon found Thort afficient. head of the watch repair to Mr. Grindell Matthows that Enough windings should be department of a large Lon- his rocket is more offective as taken off the rotor to leave don jewellary firm, although fun offensive or defensive weapon only 35-turns there, while four the increasing use of electri- against aeroplane than the death taps are taken off, the first eight cal labour saving devices is also Tay.
turns of the aerial side of the a factor. The disonon is curable The tests were, carried out in stator coil, a tap at every second in its early stages" "by dem- the
agnetism, & aliuple opération for open country, the police turn. baving notified the public to the The condenser, also a Haynes, watch repairers. danger of being in the vicinity. has 23 plates and a capacity of
Tho
Only about 5 per cent of the Only miniature rockets were not more than 00023 mfd. But watches that came in for gopair fired, and these produced a burst any good make of condenser with suffered from magnetism before of molten metal, Government simille dapacity should do. Care tlio advent of listening-in. touts were to be made lator, shold be taken, however, that it About 40 per opht. are now found
le-a low loen condenser.
to suffer from this trouble. J