THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, AUGUST. 13, 1935.
FLYING SCOTSMAN—One of Britain's crack express trains, ons hundred years after the formation of the first railway company.
100 YEARS
OF RAIL
HISTORY
Centenary Of The
Great Western
YOUTH IS NOW at
THE FIREPLATE
A centenary which appeared to
be in danger of passing almost unnoticed will be celebrated 4021 August 31. when the Great Western Railway achieves its hundredth anniversary of oxla. tence as a company.
"Puffing Billy", the first engine to run on smooth rails.
sta
conscious, into a pool of water; he was twice nevaly killed on the
six
The extent of the celebrations line; while his most anxious mis- is still a matter of domestic dishap was the swallowing of a half. Cuasion 201 Paddington. where | povőreign which remained in the. details are being planned, but outgreat
man's windpipe for of the preliminary conferences weeks. has emerged the decision to hold an exhibition assoclated with the birth and development of the line!
Eton Protests
His pioneerimr days were any-, ịthing but pleasant. Many people So that this may be as compre did not want the ralfway, notably hensive as presible, an append the authorities of Eton College, being made fur, all
It was compilai and that the engines. who possess would poison the
that air, relies of the old Great Western!
the Jane would inhuriere will the Company, or of the
eumpanies landscape, and that it would cor which it absorbed, to communicate rupt the morals of ton boys "by| with the secretary. Mr. F. R. E. giving them easy necens ta the i Davis, at Paddington Station.
dissipations of 1 ndon."
Eton resolutely opposed - The
One solid souvenir of the past Bitl. They demanded fencing or that has been, rediscovered is
a brick wall for four miles to keepį buffer of the North Star,
the the boys away from the Track, al-t original engine which, in Decem- though the line was three miles! ber, 1837, pulled the first train away. The railway company, had that left Paddington for Maiden- to supply patrolling, policemen, head. For decader it has
who were to be under the ordersi done service as a music-stool; now it is to build a branch line to Windsor, of the Hond master. They had not
again in its protteting position on! the gallant old ergine in the rail- way shops at Swindon.
Stage by stage the line
grew. Actually the first train run on De- ¡cember 27, 1837, when the line
-To two remarkable young men from Paddington to... Maidenhead!
YOUTUBE ZEKURASIDONIJETNETEJ
Vice Multitude Uneasy As New Expose Impends
New York, "Aug. & A fulldress vice inquiry, scheduled to start in New York some time next month, has set the stage for a 12- derworld drama that have numerous ranitications.
"Death to the quraler.
the half-world. thereaters informers.
law
M
THELY
ALBIASA multile stands behind the curtain, some ready to Ree the state, others closelipped and grim, a third group confident bui wary, and on the fringe a Frightened remnant, wracked by indecision,
All-in-all, a fragile bul- wark, built predominantly on greed and interspersed with fear and comrage. the foundation weakens, the in- quiry may reach the heart of the vice morass, but like destroying a huge monster many blows must be struck before there is any sign-of weakening.--United Press.
CATATERTEZBATERENITORESONARYALATE
"SMITHY" TO FLY TO HONGKONG
AIR ACE PLANS TWO MAJOR FLIGHTS
Sydney, Aug. 7.
Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, fa- mous Australian air race, has completed plans for two major flights across the world.
The first will be from Mildenhall to Melbourne, in an attempt to lower the Centenary Air Race record set up by C.W.A. Scott and Campbell Black in October last year.
The second flight will be a Goodwill Mission to Japan. It will take four days, and stopovers will be made at Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai en route.
Kingsford Smith proposes to In 1930 it crossed the Atlantic Americn-the make the Far Eastern flight soon from Europe to after. he completes his attempt on more difficult direction, the England-Australia record. Io will fly the Lockheed Altair low- ¡winged monoplane Lady Southern Crass, in which he recently erosa ed the Pacific, on both flights.
Past Triumphs Recalled Known all over the world as
the
"Old Bus," the monoplane Southern Cross has a record of historic achieve. unequalled by any other
A representative of the Austrument lian Commonwealth Government aeroplane. She ins has been invited to necompany him the Arctic, planeerèd
ventured Into the airways
on the night to Japan. No mail, a vast ocean spaces, encircled the globes, and turned threatened dis- freight or commercial matter of faster into triumph in one of the most any kind will be carried.
thrilling episodes in the history of aviation.
Sir Charles stated he wanted this light "not to count for any commercial interest, but for Aus- tralia."
He is nose in the United States. taking delivery of his machine, which was mortgaged to pay for the Paciße venture.
The Southern Cross has just
regarded as {} much right to be *anuseum piece" as the old machines | (of Merist and the Wright Brothers. Since 1928, when Sir Charles Kings. ford Smith and his companions unde the first Pacific flight, there have been great strides in the develop-
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of aircraft. Machines Prior to his departure for the ent
been developed which are like minta- United States, Sir Charles made ture hotels in the air: Seatt his Inst flight Its the Southern Campbell Black in their Comet have Cross, the "old hus" in which he down from London to Melbourne in
liner mude many of his earlier triumphs. less time than it takes n
The famous old Fokker mono-Cross has continued to justify the cross the Tasman, but the Southern plane, after nearly half a million į pride and affection of her owner. miles flying, during which it! brought its owner. fame and a Wilkins' Arctic Flight
flown by knighthood, was
The monoplane was built by the "Smithy" to honourable retire-
early Folker Company during its ment at the Australian Museum days in the Fated States and was in Canberra.
(known as a Fokker P7 It was ar "Southern Cross" will never lyquired by Sir Hubert Wilkins for his in the Arctic. arain for Australia. The Federaliexploration lights
Barrow, Government bought the nutchine Actually, it was inken to
Ahoska, in 1927, hat ernshed on the from Kingsford-Smith for £3,000 rough lee. The machine was, flown and it will stand alongside in the Arctic, hift it was nol the the ploneer machine in which actual craft in which Wilkins made his Sir Ross Smith made the great flight from Alaska to Svalbard first flight from England to Aus- in 1928.
The machine was offered for sale tralia in the Federal Museum.
Thy Wilkins tå Kingsford Smith when Only a few weeks ago the big the latter was in California negetint- "plane limped back home across lng for his Pacific flight. the Tasman sea with a crippled
fitted with The monoplane was engine. It was saved by the three Wright Whirlwind engines and gallantry of "Smithy's" co-pilot, C. before the Pacific venture an attempt Taylor, who climbed to the wing was made to break the world's record and fed the remaining engine with for ustained flight, which then stood at 52 hours 22 minutes. The attempt bil by hand.
falled by about two hours but, never- Last year it flew unfalteringly (theless, it was held to provide de- aeross the Pacific to California.! (Continued ou Paje 5.)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was opened by a "special" draw Famous Australian Airman Coming to Hongkong Soon
Charles Alexander Saunders-by the North Star. Meantime, the belongs the credit for the build-line was being constructed at fis ing of the original line, which was Bristol end, and on August 31, started in a field at Temple Mead 1840, was epened between that at Bristol, and terminated in afety and Bach. Sietly a year! Beld at Paddington, £2,000,000 was inter the line was clear between needed for the 116 miles of track, London and Bristol. and through the netivities of Saunders, the first secretary, then ever.
what- There was no evremony
Paddington What happened was that a
only thirty-seven years of age, the beflagged train left shares were subscribed through with the board of directors, and the holding of public meetings in made the journey in between four. the towns to be served. "It was sad and harassing work, calling and five hours. It was recorded
that no one's hat blew off.
upon เก pressing perfect strangers to contribute," wrote Saunders,
A Fine Engineer
~
Paddington Station
Paddington Station as we still know i was opered in 1854, other tribute to the genlus and
An-
An even more remarkable per-vision of Brunel, for he envisaged sonality was the engineer, Brunel the increase in teffie to come, and selected for this great task in for fifty years It remained un- a new form of transport at the altered. Indeed, it was not until age of twenty-six. Brunel's van 1912 that a fourth great arch was nection with the Great Wester added to those built by the great lasted until his death twenty-six engineer. years after his appointment andj in quarter of a century he
Achievement and extension complished work which for its followed almost yearly, and it was magnitudo,and versatility has after Brunel's death that the most probably never beer equalled. As difleult task of all, the construc- à bridge-builder of the highest tion of the Severn Tunuel, was un- class his monuments are to be dertaken. This occupied
five found conspicuously, among other years and was completed after places, at Saltash and Chepstow, heartbreaking difficulties. It was During the construction of the not unli December, 1886, that it Arst section of the railway he could be opened to разясняет found time to design and overlook traffic, bringing Cardiff one hour the construction of the Great nearer to London. Western steamship--the first to
travel from England to New York' When the railway opened it had and back under steam power alone. 116 single track miles. To-day it He was busy later with the Great possesses 9,076 miles. Its capital Britain, the first large steamship bas grown from £2,000,000 to to be built of iron and driven by £147,000,000. Every year approxi-
mately 126,000,000 a screw propeller.
passenger journeys pre made by Great But momments to his genlus Western. During the Great War and energy are everywhere. He it carried 3,200,000 officers and built the two lofty water towers of men, and much of the impedimenta the Crystal Palace; he constructed of war. docks and harbour works; he turn-
It holds the record for safe ed his attention to gunnery and ballisties during the Crimen; and travelling, for shice 1916 only one' during that campaign, designed a passenger has been killed. military field hospital on the The Great Western exhibition pavilion principle which endures) should be a magnificent history of to this day.
in one hundred years, progrese And in all his activities he had and will stomp on the minde of
the the present generation charmed life. After just
Tunnel, he fell from a ladder, un-
encaping drowning in the Thames tounding genius and determina
tion of опе man-the great Brunel.
A
WILDENHALA
INDIAN
OCEAN
VH
VH-USB
A flight half way around the world in 2 days, from Milden- hall to Melbourne, is the latest aim of Sir Charles Kingsford- Smith, the famous Australian air ace, right, in the low-wing Lock- heed Altair plane in which he re- cently crossed the Pacific, shown above. The map indicates the route Kingsford-Smith will fol low in his effort to lower Scott and Black's record of 2 days, 23. KRAKATAO, the famous vol- cano in the Straits of Sunda, be- hours, set up in the Centenary tween Sumatra and Java. In Air Race. When he completes 1883 it erupted with such violence that the noise was heard in the this flight, Kingsford-Smith will. Philippines and a tidal wave oc- leave Melbourne on a Goodwill curred in Hongkong, ashes also Flight to Japan, calling at Singa- descending over the Colony. This volcano, now submerged, is port, Hongkong and Shanghai en showing renewed signs of
route. activity.
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