THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.
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THE KING'S CUP.
UP AND DOWN.
1,000 Miles Course. Petrol Price Anomaly.
NEW LONDON PORT.
TWO KINDS OF CONTROL.
The annual alt race for tho King's Cup will take place on Fri- Coincidentally with the increase day and Saturday, July 5 and 6. in the price of petrol in Great Starting and finishing at the now Britain last month, American oil aerodrome at Heston, a course of companies, faced with the crisis about 1,100 miles will be flown up of over-production, began an in- the east coast of England to Edin- tornal price war.
While petrol in Britain jumped burgh, thenco aeross Scotland to Glasgow, and on the second day to from 1s. 44d. to 18. 7d. per down the vestern side and along gallon, it fall in parts of the U.S.A.
to 13 conts (6d.) per gallon. the southern side of England.
American oil companies have
No definite choice has yet been made of the intermediate stopping bicon attempting to control produc- places, but it is proposed after con-tion, and it has been seriously sultation with the various light proposed that all wells close down aeroplane cluba to follow the for three months. The difficulty general plan of last year's race, lo has been to get the enormous num which nearly all the flying clubs bers of small producers to agree, were visited in turn. A meeting of for with a number of bores check the Associated Clubs General by jowl on the same field, and all Council will be held at the Royal draining oil from the same reser Acro Club, and if the clubs are voir, the policy has been to get as agreeable the probable course will much out of the earth as possible be as last year to Norwich, in the shortest time, because the Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, owner of the next bore is trying Nowcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, to do the same, and the reservoir Blackpool, Liveroool, Bristol, must ultimately run dry.
Drawing their crude oil sup- Kamble, and back to Ileston.
plies from all over the world, the A New Aerodrome.
British oll companies have been Heston', lo a new aerodrome, secking to standardise prices. which lies just off the Great West Russian oil was the competitor Road, and has been started by two which kept prices down, and the pilots Mr. II. N. St. V. Norman, upward move indicated that the who is a keen private owner and Russian interests had been in- an officer of the Auxillary Air duced into the controlling British Force, and Mr. F.A. 1, Muntz, niso group.
n light aeroplane owner with the King's Cup from the Moth acro- avowed object of providing a plane. This machine has now
terminal acrodromo for private]
been victorious for three years in owners and taxi machines close to succession, and some of the more a main route into town.."
recent high-speed single-seater At present there is no such fighters may again give that added aerodromo serving London, other interest of a fast back marker than the Continental air port at endeavouring to catch up the Croydon, and air trafe there is
medium-powered aircraft. becoming so regularized and at It is likely that this year, too, times congested with commercial the air racing will be concentrated air liners that it is doubtful if the more on this one big race, and light neroplane" owner can get the that the inter-club race meetings individual attention that a private may be curtailed, as in any case aerodrome of this sort will supply 1929 will have more than the usual
There is Stag-lane Aerodrome, proportion of air events. but this is already congested with airships should be flying about the headquarters of the London June, then comes the King's Cup, Aoroplane Club and the Intensive a week later the Royal Air Force fying of the De Havilland Com-display, after which attention will pany, so that there is a real need be concentrated upon the British for another air port near Len- International Aircraft Exhibition at Olympia, from July 13 to 27, and then, almost as soon as this is over, the frat of the foreign
tion.
Keen Struggle Expected.
The new
It is too early yet to say the machines will be arriving at Cal- number of entries to be expected, shot to begin practice for the big but last year there were 38, and world air raco, the Schneider this year there is certain to be a Trophy, to be flown over the Solent very keen struggle to wrest the on September 6 and 7.
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