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PHILIP JORDAN
who has visited a factory where our great new bombers are made, tells in this article of some of the wonders he saw.
made
were
THE
she is. At your service, your protector, one of the instru ments of final victory.
Upstairs in a sunny room are the men
who conceived her and translated a set of demands into a mechanical drawing. A mech.. anical drawing into a three- dimensional reality. "We want," says the, Air Mihilalry, "a new bomber. It must be able to carry X tons of bombs for Y miles at Z miles per hour at a height of so many thousand feet. (Thousands more than
AND
•
sense
machine
book; someone pinned a
YET all the grace and rod into a tube; or, without numbered disc on the lapel
precision of a bomber is cracking it, bend a straight tube you'd think.) It must be able to take off in so many yards, of my coat, and I was free to go inside one of the achieved with the same ease as until it looks like a snake with land in so many. Now be good
enough to get on with it." largest aircraft factories in you wind your watch. Or, at indigestion.
And, all the time you least, that is what it seems like this country.
Beneath its roofs thou- to the layman who follows the doing it you would be consclous
a middle-aged mun sands of men and women process from one end of the fac- of these strangely powerful men. walking past you
with a face like a monk work eight-hour shifts to tory to the other. It is a fool and women
a couple more and a liking for peace, pulls out turn out the bombing planes proof process to start with, for with huge castings in cach
arms; and his pencils; calls his designers that carry destruction to it is virtually impossible for any hand, may be German military objectives, incorrectly made part to find its tucked under the
way into the finished product, cach casting looking as though together and they get on with It is never quiet. For 24 If a part is not absolutely true a derrick were needed to lift it, the job. One day the job be- As you move towards the far comes real, built by hand; "and lucky, hours a day, seven days a to the blue print from which it week, huge black bombers, comes, it just won't fit into its end of the factory, sense be- from that, if they are
crazy place, as clean and sweet..produced but with as much care larger than anything ever place; and that's all there is to comes apparent in this hitherto comes the finished article, mass- known, larger than any- For that reason it is also vir- smelling as a hospital ward. as a Rolla-Royce engine.
Parts are no longer single. And they are efficient. There thing ever dreamed of in tually impossible for any part They are bolted together, is no waste, no hold-up so far as manage it. For 30 the last war, rise out of a to be made other than correctly, riveted, welded. They grov, they can welter of machines to take Taking it by and large, hardly
derstand. A skeleton suddenly in his factory. He knows his their place in Britain's front any really skilled labour is em- Even the layman begins to un- years my host that day has been ployed in modern alreraft pro takes shape, has meaning, exact- workers, admires them, is some- Hongkong Telegraph. line of defence.
duction. Everything is
ly as though before your eyes in times amused by them, under- Through never-closed
on jigs. doors at one end of this It sounds easy. But think of anatomist were to assemble in stands them. They like him,
pile of too, I believe. You can their correct places a
of thing. And About 100,- benes lying on the table before that sort huge factory I saw ma- it for a moment. terials stream in, gleaming 000 parts, very many of them you. Soon you would recognise if you pick the smallest bolt, the
cach one of a foot, an ankle, and then a leg, smallest plate from a like solid sunbeams. From different. For
So it is with the modern and ask him what it does, he first be made an indestructible bomber, soon to bristle like a knows. That knowledge brings inned by the Hongkong Telegraph to open walls at the far end those different parts there must under the provisions of the Telecommune the finished bombers roll model, against whose propor- semi-bald porcupine with its the bombers all the faster off bears the indication "Up" is received in out into the day, ready to tions the real thing must be concealed weapons of defence, the line.
And exactly is Around the corner is a regular- By all means let us praise the Hongkong on the date of publication by make the night terrible for exactly cut.
the word. It will not do ly spaced hiss; somewhere the men who conceive and who de to produce, say, a strut whose electric welder is at work on sign; the boys in the back room.
one-fiftieth fuel tanks, rivet holes are
on oil tanks, that But remember also the boys and inch of an
out of place. know
no rivets. An expert girls in the front room. Their If they should be so inaccurate can weld a line of joined flanges hands make the finished job. IT is an unreal sight, the finished product would, if it almost as quickly as you can Because of their care the bom-
bers fly. for the visitor sup- held together, be immeasurably walk its length. Luftwaffe sent over 400 planes poses that he has come into weakened; for an aeroplane is Out in the even bigger shops across the Channel to bomba new world whose men and so exactly planned that the the boys in the front room buc-
"Thank you, sir. Your iden- Portland, Dover and British women are gifted with strains and stresses that it must kle these small skeletons on to
bear are calculated to throw the strength and muscles that their weight at certain exact huge frameworks, join them to ity disc, please."
The commissionaire checked shipping, constituting
cover them with a gleaming me out. I was back in the biggest air attack ever launched only the legendary heroes spots not half an inch, not gether with other skeletons,
of remote antiquity can even the fiftieth of an inch, skin as lovely and tender as any world of ordinary men. against Britain up to that day;
ever have possessed. They away from them. sixty of them failed to return to are gods and goddesses in their bases, being shot down by blue overalls. British fighters. On Monday, the anniversary of that ovent, swarms of R.A.F. fighters on the offensive flew across the Channel several times and went hunting for German planes over -occupied France. They did not see one and not one German plane flew over Britain.
TH: prefix Special to the Telegraph"
Indicate anws which is caitons Ordinance, 1934. Such nowe al
the United Press Associations, who re- servo all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
POSITIONS REVERSED
ON August 11, 1940 the
our enemies.
GRADUALLY the gods in
FUNDS FOR U. S. ARMY OF 3,000,000
And the marvel of it all is you could imagine. that exactitudė is not achieved by machines as delicate as, say, With ease they lift huge the sound-box of a gramophone.
blue overalls are breath- life into this girders, many at a time, On the contrary, there are tools
лен now in in- and settle them comfort as high as twenty feet that can ing
press half-a giant, stirring
Here ably on their shoulders with simultaneously
dozen different shapes out of dustry's vast matrix. one hand before striding half-a-dozen pieces of metal at is the nose; here the tail, pressure of nearly 6,000 each complete with its observa-
RPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" through the shops to de- posit them for the next pro- pounds to the square inch. You tion panels; here the power-
WASHINGTON,. Aug 12 (UP).- cess they must undergo. -need-not test the result for per- operated turret crowned with
But the truth is that feet accuracy; it cannot possi- cannons. It-is-a-frightful thing The Sennte Appropriations Com- that is being born; but beauti-mittee to-day unanlinously recom
mended a reduction of $1.234,000,000 kul. these huge girders are hard-bly be wrong.
in the supplemental national de- There are endless small ma-
a
If any evidence were needed ly heavier than paper, for chines as well, no bigger than So it comes off the frame-fence bill which passed the House
on its own carrying appropriations and contract
of the rapidly growing ascend-they are spun from a new the sewing-machine in the back work and stands ancy of the Royal Air Force metal, tough as steel, re- parlour. What will they do? low-pressure tyred wheels, that, authorisations totalling $8,063,000,-
000.
curtailment,
The major cut was in the House- over the Luftwaffe these facts silient and almost able to What would you like? A metal acrobat as it is, it can fold up'
the Despite surely provide it. It is true defy gravity without the rod going in at one end; and into its immense belly when it approved item for ordnance intended from the other in open mouth flies. Through the bomb doors to equip a potential army of 3,000,000 aid of wings. that a considerable section of
spitting slotted screws quicker that conceal the nest in which men
Senator Alva Adams, the Chairman, Men and women so easily than you or I could chew up its eggs are stored, men could said that the sitne number of men
walk two abreast.
can still be equipped. The sun was the Luftwaffe has been diverted to the eastern front where they handling such apparent fried potatoes.
Goggled men with air brushes intended for equipment over and masses is no new pheno-
come from their paint shops and above the figures of a 3,000,000 man have met with heavy punish menon: it has startled the.
hide the lovely skin with black army for unforeseen contingencies ment from the Russian air beholder since men first dis-
O perhaps you would like paint, so rough that it will ab- which might arise in modern war- to drill a dozen exactly sorb and not reflect the light. 300,000 for the War Department; The bill approved includes $3,- force; but this serves only to covered the uses of pumice;
The engined-wings, with
$1,507,000,000 for the Navy Depart-
and cash emphasise the emptiness of and to this day you can, placed needle-sized holes in a
ment; 50,980,000
authorisations the Nazi boast that the presumably, sit outside the dozen plates before you could shining power-units resting in
Or may them, float out to join the body.illon in contract
$30,000,000 for miscellaneous activit- Luftwaffe was capable of re-town of Naples (over which say "Jack Robinson." maining invincible no matter these girders sometimes fly) be you'd like to turn a real steel Nose and tail meet; and there for the Maritime Commission and what the opposition. The actual position to-day is that the Nazi air force, owing firstly to the grand work of the RAF, and secondly through the de- mands made upon it elsewhere, has been virtually swept out of the skies in the west.
and watch peasants coming down the side of Mount Vesuvius with what appear to be great rocks balanced on their heads. As this new metal is to steel, so lava is to rock.
Yesterday the R.A.F. con- Have you ever seen a tinued to rub it into the Nazis modern bomber? Some- with one of the biggest offen- thing like 100,000 different sivca yet directed against parts are interlocked to northern France and Ger- many, while simultaneously the make it. Each tiny screw Russians continue to give the (some so light that you do le direct to tho. extra- not even know there is one yagant German claims of resting in your palm) has a having eliminated the Soviet part to play as important as air force. by directing heavy raids against Berlin and other the engine itself, whose German cities. The cumulative mounting is almost the only effect of these combined opera- individual part of an aero- tions against the Reich are plane that a child of four bound to be considerablo, both could not lift easily from from the point of view, of
the ground. material damago and in lower- Ing the morale of the German people who have so long been the Allied raids are becoming fed with the boastful propa- more and more powerful and indicating that ganda of Goebbels and Goering devastating, that Germany would always ultimately the aorial attacks on remain Invulnerable, to enemy Germany will be even more ferocious and effective than the air attacks!
worst of the Luftwaffe raids on Britain of last autumn. In short, the eventual triumph of the RA.F. and Allied air forces is merely a question of time-a sobering thought for the most optimistic Nazlina
The fact is now gradually being forced upon the. German people that there is no such a place as a "safe" area in the Relch or in any of the occupied territory in the west. Equally terrifying is the knowledge that
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Hava
By Lichty Sabotage In
SUMMER SUBRONS
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Subjugated Countries
one
LONDON, Aug, 12 (Router)-How
a parly of guerilla soldiers wrecked in German troop train by sending a Locomotiva full speed ahead down a track into collision with a German train is described in a supplementary Soviet communique to-day which reports
the that -16 Germon train werd.com troyed
Further
cartel
of the des-
of sabotage.activi-
in Ger Ported Holland and
lles fo
France are also announced. In one Dutch town, a whole section of a maching-building factory was blown using a stoppage in the
In the entiro
up
plant for week.
requiring
In another town, electric generators were put out of action repairs lasting several days.
dolay
In a cloth factory, stocks of finished cloth Intended for immediate exportation to Germany were destroyed by Are. A train looded with mechanised units and artillery was dera
was, derailed be tween the town of Apgelgert and Hollandberst, causing much
Guerilla activities are also increas ing in France, according to this re- A German train, with supplies has been derailed, 14 struckd have been destroyed and an ammunition has been blown up in Medon open
port.
In the town of Pontoise, anti-German demonstrations of work- meri have taken place, the communi- que says
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