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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1932.

Aviation, Building and Engineering |

POWERFUL PLANES FOR MAIL RUN.

Britain Building New 200 M.P.H. Machines.

London, Nov. 10.

Britain's fastest civil aeroplane, a mall-carrier with a top speed of 200 miles an hour is nearing completion at Norwich and will be ready for

delivery early next year.

Science Progresses

Too Fast

Savant

THE CHINA MAIL.

Much RIVAL TYPES IN

Suggests Stay In Development

HURTFUL

TO MANKIND

AIRCRAFT.

Where Biplanes Are On Top.

GIANT FLYING BOAT.

GOVERNMENT

น Centre

Brings Trade To Public.

AIDS BUILDERS

ceilings, and, of course the lighting tions, hospital equipment, de, ̧ fittings, which are very numerous The Government Building and of all kinds.

search Station at Watford and the

are

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Re-

The Building Centre, at 158, New

On the lower ground floor may be Forest Products Research Labora Bond Street, London, W、1, which; was opened to the public on Septem-seen the heating plants of various toy have each been provided with For twenty-five years there has

types which will be actually used to space in which exhibits connected been rivalry between the biplane [ber 7, consists of a permanent ex-

heat the building, the air-condition with methods of dealing with the and the monoplane. It continues hibition of examples of practically with increasing keenness, and now every type. The Centre has been)

ing plant, and a telephone exchange ravages of the death-watch beatle and other timber diseases are covers the whole field, from the established for the mutual benefit of exhibited by the General Post Office,

shown. light aeroplane" to the 35-tonner.

The Centre. will be open every Both in America and in France architects manufacturers of ma- In addition to these working ex- The machine, built to the winning

'efforts are being made to produce terials and equipment, all those en-hibits, there thousands of weekday, free of charge, from 9.30 design in a keenly-contested Air

This year's meeting of the Bri-Would it be to the good of mankind Fighters and Day Bombers for the gaged in the building industry, and examples of manufactured materials a.m. to 1 p.m. It will not be possible Ministry competition. Is a fore-

and material pro- respective Air Forces which will at

to buy anything on the premises, runner of a new type of high-speed tish Association has been remark that scientific

Jable for three addresses, nominally gress should stop? Professor Walker least equal the British Fury and for the public who are interested in and articles of equipment. wide but visitors are quite free to view mail plane. Relays of aircraft

which they use. ranges of bricks built up in wall and handle the exhibits. without this type, lying by day and night, concerned with. engineering, which would certainly say "No," and it is Firefly single-seaters and the Hart the buildings

have trespassed far outside the difficult to imagine that 3ir Alfred and Fox two-seaters. The principal Practically everything to be seen on formation, stones, marbles, sands, guidance or interference, and in- could bring Australia within seven

technical sphere of that subject, would say yes,” Like Professor U.S.A. and French designs are the premises is an exhibit; for cements, timber, paints, glass, grates quiries made by them will be treat days of England and operate a

and have, in effect, issued a chal- Walker, he would probably like to monoplanes. The British machines, three-day mail service

lenge to the whole constitutions of see the machine used better, rather Capetown and London.

society as we know it in this coun- than see it run down, but is not able by far the beat of their classes in example, the Boor coverings, of rub-[and fireplaces, casement windows will not be given the name of in- ber, wood, linoleum and other kitchen, scullery, bathroom and quirors unless the latter speelally the world, are biplanes.... try, says the noted publication, "En-, to propose a method to ensure that, The new Short military six-materials, the wall coverings, the lavatory equipment and Installa wish it-Engineering. with two supercharged air-cooled! "gineering." Among those three better usage. We suggest that engined flying-beat is a biplane.

we

of

The machine la a biplane fitted

communications We

marked

if

gines..

the

engines. It is expected to cruise at

include Sir matters are not as bad as Sir Alfred Other British flying-boats, which 172 m.p.h. with a crew of three and. Alfred Ewing's Presidential Address paints them.

He is an eld man. are foremost in design `and opera- 1,80016, of mail on board. It will be which, although addressed to the He tells us himself he is the oldest tion, are also biplanes. The German able to fly for 1,250 miles before Association as a whole, was very, president the British Association Do-X Dying-boat, which is far from having to descend for refuelling.

naturally of an engineering nature, has ever had. And while we hesitate

being a complete Виссель, is Practical immunity from forced The other communications, we need to remind him that les vieux ont nominally a monoplane, but it has landings is assured by the machine's!

hardly say, were Professor Miles toujours tort, we suggest that age auxiliary stub wings below the main ability to continue in flight-cruis- Walker's Presidential Address. to has always found some of the ways wing, and over all is an auxiliary ing at 150 m.p.h.-with one engine Section G. and Mr. A. P. M. of youth Д little dis- wing carrying the six pairs of en- out of action, a remarkable achieve Fleming's paper on Soviet Russia, tasteful, and probably always ment for a fully-loaded twin-engined Although we do

doubt not recollect so will... We

Soon To Be Tested. neroplane.

digression 1

In tech- present proceedings of youth in The machine is also easily adapt-nical circles before, the ad- motor-cars are, although more dan- The Blackburn Aeroplane Co. was, ed as a seaplane for descending upon dresses were not isolated pheno- gerous, any more deplorable to age commissioned by the Air Ministry

or inland mena. rivers

In many spheres, and in than were the proceedings of youth to build a monoplane and a biplane or rising from waterways. In this form, despite many lands, men have looked round in dogcarts and hansom cabs to the similar in power, load, fuselage, and 'the added weight of Boats, its top on the world and asked if the pre- age of an earlier generation. New general equipment, in order that speed will be reduced by only 18 sent discontents are evidence of possibilities always introduce new complete operational tests might be The biplane was shown at m.p.b.

the failure of our whole system of opportunities for misuse, but our made. With a full load it should be able life? If the constitution of our 30- present machines and developments this year's R.A.F. display. It is a to cruise at 160 m.p.h. for 1,100 ciety is, after all, wrong? and I will in due course, fall into their twin-engined machine of an all-on

some better way may not be devised proper, place in the mechanism of weight of nearly 5% tons. miles non-stop.

After the machine has finished its to utilise the amazing mechanisms life, mankind will learn to use them comparison monoplane is now nearly

and possibilities which mechanical properly, and in time they will stand ready for tests. flying trinis and been sccepted by the Air Ministry it will probably be and scientific progress have put in- for age and dignity against yet later handed over to Imperial Airways

for extensive tests along the British air routes in Africa and, Asia.

Success in these tests may mean new conception of speed in future delivery of maila by nir,

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The fastest aeroplane in the world developments of which we yet know is the Schneider Tropy winner, the These questions are essentially as nothing.

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LOCOMOTIVES.

He suggests that the material equip gineers. This is complimentary to than mere speed are important.

Bigger Wing Area. ment of the world has outrun the the profession, but we doubt if 'en- mental and moral capacity of man- gincers and scientists are so differ- The biplane has the advantage of Pig's Chitlings A new plant for the mechanical

Brains He sees physical ent from the rest of mankind as he the possibility of securing a greater cualing of locomotives, which is kind to handle it.

and engineering developments, suggests. He paints a world run total wing-area for a given wing- mutually laimed to be one of the largest of

The wings are which are the corner-stones of the by "engineeringly minded" its kind in the country, has recently

be made re- been installed by the London Mid-seientific work of the last fifty years, and from his remarks about teach- supporting and can

prostituted to mean and ugly ends. ing children to spell the English latively light for a given strength. land Scottish Railway Company at

the He Bees the passing of the language, it may be assumed that The monoplane's wings, Toton, near Nottingham, an import-

earlier time and this ideal world will speak a phone- other hand, must either be strongly ant locomotive depot dealing prin tranquility of an

and heavily built on the cantilever Pork Chop the handing over of a machine of tic universal language.. cipally with the coal traffic from the complexity and beauty to those who

principle, or else must have exterior! Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

have neither the brains for the re-

struts, which increase both weight coalfields to London. The bunker

it properly. straint to use

high and is 35 ft. square, and the

Pro-

of the plant is upwards of 70 ftfessor Miles Walker, on the other hand, accopts without question the with whole mechanism of modern science

The 2

plant is capable of dealing 3,000 tons of coal a week. bunker is fed by coal wagons

of

is

up to 20 tons capacity which aru raised and tipped by a hoist, as customary in plants of this type- Engineering.

and engineering, and merely auke for a constitution of society in which it shall be used more efficiently than At present.

men, span.

and resistance.

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Generally speaking. If due regard be paid to strength, the monoplane will have a higher wing-loading than the biplano of equal speed, which Imeans that it takes off and lands

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at greater speed. If, as is usually Sucking Pigs, to order Imports of iron and steel to the the case, the monoplane a low- In answer to the direct question: Tecs from foreign ports, and coast- resistance design, it "floats" a long wise during August totalled 5,162 way in the air near the ground as tons, of which 781 tons were plg- it comes into land and takes the ron, 3,882 tons crude sheet bars, ground or the water at high speed. a disadvantage, both In billets, blooms and slabs, and 549 This Is tona plates, bars, angles, rails, military and civil aircraft. sheets, and joists. For the prev-Nothing has yet occurred in air- ious

unloadings craft development to dlaprove the months the amounted to 5,940 tons, of which contention that the biplane, in any 1,072 tons were-pig-iron, 4,750 tons class, should have a better landing crude sheet bars, &c., and 118 tons performance, and carry a bigger plates, bars, angles, etc.; and for useful load, than the monoplane. the pre-war August of 1918, Iron and steel inshipped totalled only 1,149 tons, of which 627 tons were crude sheet bars, etc., and 522 tons plates, bars, angles, etc.

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"AL FRESCO FETE”

the 49th Annual Fete of the

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

will be held in the compound of the

CATHOLIC

on

CATHEDRAL

SUNDAY 'DECEMBER 4, 1932

From 8.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m.

ADMISSION $1.00.

Each admission ticket entitles the Holder to

Souvenir on the evening of the Fete.

From 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. the stalls will be open and excellent programmes staged of special interest to Children, Tea and refreshments obtainable.

In the Grounds there will be a Toy Bazaar Luc Wheel Shooting Gallery and a lot of other attrac together with several Raffles for valuable prizes.

EVERYBODY CAN HAVE A GOOD TIME AT THE FETE SO COME ALONG AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS I

August shipments of iron and steel from the Tees equalled the July figures, and loadinga of steel for overseas were the heaviest of any month this year. Total clearances for August reached 35,892 tons, comprising 7,296 tons of pig-iron; 689 tons of manufactured iron, and 27,407 tons to steel. Scotland was as usual, the largest buyer of pig- fron, taking 1,877 tons; whilst Den- mark accepted 1,285 tons and Wales 1,300 tons. Chief customers for steel were Russia, 8,280 tóns; Union of South Africa, 2,257 tons: India, 1,989 tons; Portuguese East Africa, 1,859 tons; and the Argentine, 968 tons-Engineering.

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