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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
HONGKONG'S LOWEST COST
ACROSS THE 'CHANNEL BY AIR.
IMPRESSION
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926.
OF MODERN TRAVEL,
(By Alton H. Ketchum.)
G-EBBG
OLYMPIA SHOW.
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engine used by Sir Alan Co while crowning each tower was a beautifully-moda SOMETHING NEW IN
SHOW STANDS. «j
Sphinx, a much magnified edi of the well-known Armety With Sir Alan Cobham's feats Biddeley radiator mascot. still frosh in the public mind the complete the soheme, the i aircraft atmosphere porvading jooting ends of the boa tho design of the Armstrong torminated in replicas of Siddeley Stand at Olympla was Armstrong Siddeley V shap most appropiate. Two tall towers radiator, the contral portie and their cross beam were made oarrying the name of the Con of polished steel lattico work and pany carved in blue letters on symbolized the steel construc-glittering aluminium backgroune
tion of
Armstrong, Biddeloy illuminated by flood lights, The aeroplanes, Dominating the cross Stand was designed by the air- boam, was a giant reproduction of oraft engineers at the Coventry the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar works.
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The Handley-Puge bomber which flies between London and Brussels, one of the many that
cross the English Channel,
For a real thrill you ought to white road-streake, littlo lakes scores of squat little red wind- By the English Channel. I did, that shimmer, like reflected mills with broad sails churning and I shall never get.over it. jowele a thin shining atrip of peacefully on.
tiny train creeps puffingly to the channel ports.
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Our own shadow tags along below.
An Airways motor whisks us steel along which an unbelievably Тгассь of the war appear. out to Croydon, the great airport
Faint serrated lines where of London, just as the slanting
tronches are being silted in, and rays of the morning sun are glid.
the jumbled grey piles of ruined Fing the vast sweep of its There
houses,
Everywhere, in this aro perfunctory examinations,
WHISH! AN AIR POCKET. „
zone, bright red roofs of new woighing of one's luggage, and of
homes built, amid the wreckage onesolf.
But flying must have some of the war. Passports are scrutinized, de-zost to it, and the insidious barkation cards filled out, a thing called an air pocket sup-thunder-cloud is lowering. and Half an hour and a black porter slaps a huge circus label plies it free of charge. To, con.. ou my suitcase, and I stop out osive of an air pocket, ascend 10 Blowering ahead. Jets of wator into the flying field with a feel-stories in any evelator and cut running down over the wings. are flying from the struts and ing of tingling imminence cutting the ropes. After the first few Below it is raining mistily, but didoes somewhere down inside, nne learns that he is not going to here the moisture moraly con- There she stands a great be shot through the opiling at the denses on the body of the ship. Handley-Page, of the type used during tho war for bombing.
next 20-foot air excavation, and feigne non-chalanco as he looks covertly along the wing for cracked struts.
BRUSSELS AND LAND! Hor, motors are roaring until they echo again from the reound-
Darkly seen through, the voil ing hangars, while a small army
of rain, the roofs and spires of a However, not all the pas large city take shape-Brussels!! of mechanics eling to strut and sengers seem worried from the A quick dip to port, a topsy-turvy stay, Sha trembles and shivers moment of taking off the spare looking world, and the plane with the apparent desire to be gentleman across the aisle has slips into a sharp, banking spiral off. Some of the passengers do, hardly looked up from book. as the earth rushes up to most.us. too, but from quite opposite Just ahoad a Germán dezes in motives t
his chair. Back aft an American jar, another, and we are once A bump, a sharp crack, another The enclosed cabin is com-is writing a letter between air more disillusioned creatures of fortably arranged with ten pockoba... wicker chairs, and an aisle be-knickered and knapsacked for a forced to dodge mud puddles and Englishmen, earth, shorn of our wings, and tween. Back aft, a lavatory and holiday, chat in shouts forward the large drops that are beating a drinking fount. Eight of us arq. Thirty minutes' flying time and tattoo on the fuselage as we stop settling down as we taxi across we are at the channel, Dover far the field, when, with a mighty below. Soon the chalk cliffs are: roar from her two great Rolls-fading and a dark band appears Royce engines, she leaps forward in the other side-France! And like a live thing, throbbing and in a few moments England 'drops pulsing with a glorious sense of away below the horizon. unleashed power,
BUMPETY-BUMP AND UP
Two
The treacherous and much- Bump-gathering speed-bump from above, though long rippling swum channel seems very calm -going fastor-bump-on the undulations are apparent beneath wings of the wind we swoop up: the surface. The air itself is ward, and down below, down, much smoother above, the water. dowd, drop hangar, Croydon too, and the plane throbs along down drops the whole country of as though on rails. Far far Surrey !
moving. below wee channel boats barely
The greater beauty of any country seen from the air dawns upon us—oapocially this English countryside
OVER THE CONTINENT. Hardly 25 minutes and we are
In no time we climb a mile to lover France and the plane is flying height. The "soft, floecy banking sharply northeast. clouds seen below are a dingy The country below differs slate-grey up hore. Without the greatly from that which we havë ground reverberations, the motors just left. Through a mile of are much less noticeable high in very clear air we see little field's the air, though conversation is meticulously cultivated red- still difficult.
roofed farm-buildings granped A hundred miles in all direc-jabout cobbled courtyards; little tions the groen, yellow, red and white cross-roads villages and brown patchwork of the country cannals, shining, like silver sido rolls off to the horizon, stroaks along the landscape. segmented by tiny hedgerows, Dotting the vast panoramic vista,
out.
I am the unloved traffic cop;
I signal GO and I signal STOP;
I rule the high and I rule the low;
When I raise my hand they stop and go.
They stop and go obediently,
But high and low they all cuss me.
I raise my band and the raging tide Snarls to a pause on either side,' The menacing racer, long and lean, The old tin can and the limousine. They growl at me and their hot teath clash, And the insane walkers past mo dash.
In rain or snow or sun or elect, Alone I stand in the frenzied street And check mad wheels; and check mad feet, The glittering car and the old tin can And the wild-eyed boob pe-des-tri-an.
I save their lives-and the goofy mob Likens mine to the hangman's job.
I work all day in a brimstone smoll And dream all night that I've gone to hell, Where a myriad motors snarl with glee, And a myriad devile, allicuss me.
I work all day in the noisome breath Of a constant quivering, enger death. For I am an unloved traffic cop Who signals GO and signals STOP! I rule the low and I rule the high; But, high or low, when they pass me by, They're yearning to sock me in the eye. A steady rock in a crazy soa,
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I save their lives-and they all cuse me..
Lowell Otway,
(The New South Wales Police News.
October 7, 1026.)
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THOSE privileged to view the Taj motor car architecture eight years ago,
Mahal instinctively term it the most beautiful building in the world. Genius reveals itself in many forms.. The slim beauty of the Packard shows the touch of modern masters. Since Packard introduced, straight lines into
no advance in design has been made. Imitation has been persistent, but the continuance of Packard victories in Con- tinental Beauty Contests proves clearly that its grace and charm remain unmatched.
SOCONY
MOTOR OIL
MODERN OILS FOR MODERN MOTORS,
REFINED UP TO A Standard NOT DOWN TO A Price
'AUTO
BARBERS.
An "auto service barber shop" in U. B. A. sends an automobilo for its partrons.
Customers call and make an appointment. When their time comes the shop sends a car to get them, after advising them that an automobile is on its way for their convenience.
RENT-A-TRUCK.
Rent-a-truck is a new ides in motor transportation attributed to General Motors.
Motor trucks will be rented to business concarns and individuals at the rate of $30 a wook plus 13 conta a mile, which includos gas, oil, insurance and driver, accord- ing to reports.
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