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Here is the exquisite workmanship typical of everything Van Rastro does-Here is that sheet, clear perfection of weave and tone which you expect to find only in stockings two and three times heavier- Here is the Van Raalte "Flextoe"---found in all Van Raalte stockings and in no other And here are the three amartest colors of the new scason (STROLLER, PONY, and NOCTURNE)- FROM ALL
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DODGE & SEYMOUR (China), LTD. 5, Queen's Rond Central, Hongkong. Factory Representativos,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1934.
GIBRALTAR TRAP.
FOR 'PLANES
"Vicious" Air Currents
Discovered
knows
MCLAUGHLIN-BUICK 8-CYLINDER CARS. Thirty years have rolled by since the Buick Motor Company bullt its first automobile. And what a story these years have told of Buick quality, rollability and capacity to give more and batter The remarkable character of the miles. More than 2,700,000 air currents in the Bay of Gibral Buick cars have been produced. tar is revealed in a report of re- Each year a better Bulck-oach search by J. II. Field and R. War-built as Buick bullds-with the den which has just been issued by result that more than_47_por__ his Majesty's Stationery Oleo. cent of them are still in opera- The research was undertaken astion to-day, many having served a sequel to certain unusual flying five, ten, even twenty years, accidents in the immediate Ice of the Rock of Gibraltar, and notably Everyone who knows motor cars how these 2,700,000 the accident to a Fairey III. D machine on February 6, 1929, Buicks have written the proof of which suggested that rials attend- Buick qualitý on the roads of the ed flying in the neighbourhood of world. Long ago, Buick's finer, the Rock.
more faithful performance bo- came an international tradition. Records of Buicks that have gone 200,000 miles or more have become almost commonplace. And favour for Buick has in- creased year after year, until to-day more people choose Buick than fall ton other eights in its price range combined, and nine out of ten say they will buy The results were striking. When
Buicks again. A motor car has the air stream was turned on "a
to be better to compile such a condition of indescribable turmoil record over a period of thirty onaued, the flags being fretted and years. Its manufacturer has to tossed by violent local eddies and
his promise "When extended vortices, upward, down-better automobiles are built,' ward and horizontal, as far west- Bulck will build them." wards as a mile more from the MCLAUGHLIN BUICK Motor Rock and up to 7,000ft, above the Cars have been made in Canada Ren. Where the Fairey aeroplane since 1907. was lost the vortices were "wild Canadian Premium, McLAUGH- No Local Tax. No and vicious."
LIN-BUICK. makes. "Straight 8's" exclusively. All our 1933 Models have been sold and delivered. Announcement of 1934 Models on 119-Inch, 128- inch and 136-inch Wheelbase Chassis will be made at an early Telephono date:
The first Investigation was mado with a wooden model of the Rock of Gibraltar 1-6,000th of the real size. This was put in a wind tunnel at the National Physical Laboratory and the distribution of eddies and wind currents was studied. Eight hundred "flaga" composed of fino silk fibres were distributed to the leeward of the model to indiente the direction of air currents,
A WITCHES' CAULDRON. The report states that "within this "Witches' Cauldron,' It seemed, as far as model evidence pointed, that all the conditions for flying nccidents were present in easterly; winda of any considerable strength."
mean
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Subsequently full scale work was done at Gibraltar with balloons, theodolites and other apparatus. The agreement with the model re- sults was close. Vertical air cur-TRUCKS. rents up to 1,500ft, a minute or about 17 miles an hour, it is be- lleved, exist in the leo of the Rock. Air currents of 800ft, a minute were actually measured dur-
ing the mild season by means of balloons. Down
are stronger than up currents and are more frequent.
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The report contains numerous tables, diagrams and photographe Illustrating the wind distribution round the Rock and the methods used in determining the position and strength of the eddies.
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