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ANNOUNCING
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SHIPS BUILDERS.
Struggle Between Price
and Quality.
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925.
AIR SAFETY.
NEW IDEAS TESTED,
Big Strides Towards Stability..
"If abipbuilding consed in Great Britain the end of our supremacy in the carrying trade would be in sight." That is tho
Tremendous strides toward the way a shipowner put the mattor to mo writee a Manchester Guar stabilisation of airplanes were didn correspondent. Shipbuilding demonstrated-at-the Croydon. on & gonorous scale is of vital aorodromo when the Dutch avia- importance, not only to the mentor, Captain Fokkor, flow his new actually ongagod in it, but to monoplano, which is the result of those.allied industries in the hie latest ideas, and Instructor engineering and iron and stool Bullman, of the Air Ministry's trades which are associated Research Department, toyed in the air with the newest machine directly or indirectly with it.
A number of British orders have produced by British inventors.
Both mado perfect landings gono to builders in Holland, and, equally significant, a number of with theirengimas cut out, Fokker foreign contracts have gone to with nine passengers, including that country which, with greater General Bir Sefton Braockner parity in cost, would unquestion-air-vice-marahal in charge of civil have been awarded to aviation, and Bullman in his ably British firms. This disturbing little two-seater.
"It's a wonderful advanos in factor in ship construction- viewed from the British anglo-aviation," General Braeckner said will have to be met by a broaden-aa be alighted from the Dutch ing of the basis on which mon monoplane fitted with an English and masters, stand, and be sup-engine.
plemented by s patriotism which In one test, when abzut 1000 will recognise the wisdom of feet up in a choppy wind/ Fokker encouraging homo industry to suddenly purposely stalled his tho fullbat possible extent. engine. There was a slight but Those considerations may bo'put rather slow settling of the tail, under several headings:-
and the machine, almost on even altitudo. 1. Is it profitable to pay a keel, began to lose higher price for the British-made Then it pitched over so slightly made in forward, much more gently than Holland?
many bumps ons gets in the
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2. Is it good tactics-from the average coma ercial plane. Dur men's viewpoint for trade ing this time Fokker sat with unions to inaist on conditions farms folded, touching nothing. which the industry is not able to 'stand?
On one cocasion this procedúre lasted two minutes, with the 3. Can foreign-built vessels machine making virtually no hold their own when compared headway, but simply slowly set- with the products of British tling toward the earth. Then when about fifty feet from the ground yards?
- very dangerous" altitude Taking (1), I have the best ex-Fokker again, shut off, the motor
evidence in pert
Groat and his machine decended slowly' Britain behind mo wbon
to a perfectly smooth landing. the British-
The ideas devlopedoy the built ship is worth all the difference in price which now Home inventors and Fokker are exists between the home-made entirely different and neither and the foreign-made vessel.
I
s.s. PRESIDENT LINCOLN, May 16 state that
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claims to have reached the stage of perfect stabilsation, which is 'WORTH THE DIFFERENCE,"
apparont to even a layman wit- A director of one of the largest nessing the tests, but they do assert-and this also is apparent in engaged
thig
hat they have greatly redu ad industry assurée me that it is the danger of flying by construet not economically unsound for British owners to have vesselsing machines that will remain on built in British yards." Then even keel for several minutes, f necessary, before going into a argument of the British builder is naturally that the British vossel spin, the cause of most casual-
ties. is worth the difference in the cost
The Fokker machine nut- over the foreign product. But what do the men who buy the wardly looks exactly like the passenger-carrying monoplanes ships have to say? That is what
in the regularLondon-Amsterdam matters. If they are willing to
service, but is so constructed that order a foreign ship because of a the centre of gravity i further to saving in the frat cost then, itward the tail of the craft than in would appear that foreign com-
petion may "ultimately out the ordinary marchines.
heart out of British production.
Virtually the same perform- ance was exhibited by the British
I have taken pains to ascertain aviator as by Fokker, but in the general, rather than the in-diff rent fashion. His plane was dividual, view on this point. Putt-fitted with slotted wings that so ing all these blocks of the puzzle divert the air currents in case of together I get an orderly and stall that the machine remains satisfactory reply, which reads on even kool. The little two thus: "British-built vessels are seater was almost stationary worth at least 26 per cent. more several times when the engine than foreign-built when they was cut our. Similar slotted are launched.", To go into all wings soon will b fited to re- hose details would not interest gular commercial punes flying the public. Ship construction is between London and Paris, and, a highly technical business. To other points on the Continent. laymen it is full of mystories, While its designers do not yet But this much everyone will un-claim anything of perfection, derstand the British-built ship they do maintain that
the lasts longor, worka ansiar, costs machine is advanced enough to imrorsible an less for repairs, and has more in-make almost dividuality than a ship built accident such as happened at abroad. This high standard will Croydons Beveral weeks ago. always be the backbone of the when eight persons were killed shipbuilding industry of Great The machine is so fitted that it! Britain.
car not nose dive within 100 foot
At present the workers in for- or more, which will prevent the eign yards receive from 10 to 40 accidenta that often happen when per cent. less wages than men the pilot is taking off, and if similarly employed here. Ma-the engine, should stal ata torials are also cheaper in many greater altituda the pilot has instances in foreign than in Britime to ro a bit, of thinking be- tish yards. With these things fora ho finds himself in an against him, the British ship-inextricable dive. builder has more difficulty than Bullman believes the British iden more feasible than Fokker's' ever experienced before in con vincing buyers that the British and agress that there is plenty of article is the cheapest in the long room for further development. run. But of that there can ba no Fokker also said today that he doubt, and that is why the in- was far from perfection, bat dustry here will again comb into fools be has made 's long step its own. A craze for cheapness, toward safely in dying. regardless of quality, is bound to be evanescont.
"I would rather pay 33 1-3 por cont, mora for a ship fresh from a British yard than one just laun- chod by the Dutch." A shipowner put it in just those words, and I
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The Americans will probably arily bo gradual. There are too many old ships. It is only when line up as follows: Latie, Catcheri these got past their usefulness Werschkul, D. Shank, Dome, Pitch that shipbuilding will be back ers; Harlow, 1st Base; Church, again to whore it was ton to fif, 2nd Base; C. Shank, Short Stop; E. Wilson, Brd Base; Lane, Hogan, teen years ago.
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