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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932.

Aviation, Building, Engineering

AERODROMES ON THE ROOF.

New Perfect House Comes To London.

HUNDRED TO BE BUILT,

The Prefect House-the product of the boat brains of the world- is to be built in hundreds near Lon don within the next few months.

It is to be the house of thei future, with an airplane landing stage on the flat roof, and is de signed for the average British family of four-father, mother, and| two children.

Mechanising

Farm

The

Costs Cut Down To Minimum

THE

Four years

ago

"

NEW COMBINE"

lamps.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Crosses America In 10 Hrs.

New York.

Capt. James G. Halzlip has made the flight from Los Angeles to New York a jaunt of 19 hours and 19 minutes.

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Kla "breakfast-in-Los-Angeles" and "dinner-In-New-York" lopped 56 minutes from the record made a year ago, under similar conditions by Maj. James H. Doo- little, who flew the distance in 11 hours and 15 minutes,

Captain Haizlip raced his tiny Ploughs work by black and white monoplano at an the Combine double shifts. Harvester was unknown in England; night with the aid of acetylene average speed of about 250 milos an hour, sometimes renching 275 to-day mechanised farming is being

There is overy reason to belleve alles an hour. He maintained a practised in at least ten centres that if the Government will aid me high altitude all the way, rising to At Wellingore, in Lincolnshire, chanisation, it should be readily 14,000 feet over the Rockies,

He was trailed into Floyd Ben- The site is at Stanmore, Middle- sex, and the house is designed to where the plonger, Mr. Geoffrey possible to produce wheat at a much

lower price than is at present nelt Field 38 minutes after, his ar- trap every moment of sunlight Neville, has achieved remarkable re guaranteed, and that in a little while rival by Col. Roscoe Turner, whose When there is no sun you preassults, in Norfolk, in Huntingdon- the farmer will be entiafied, if not time for the same distance was 10h.

and 57m. awitch and every room can be fillshire, near Worcester and Stow-on-happy, with a guarantee of 855. ed with artificial sunlight.

The contractor with a combine Besides the record, the flight net. The householder can make his own weather-inside, for another shire, in Wiltshire and Hampshire, bas already appeared and the ma- ted Captain Haizlip a trophy and

chines at present in use by no means $5,250 in prize money. clever farmers have taken occasion exhaunt the possibilities .of

switch alters the temperature throughout the house.

work of a California,

ta 1

the-Wold, by St. Albans, in Oxford-

IN NEW YORK. European Artists Win Award.

of

New York. The swing [civilisation from geographical frontiers to the inward, upward

by the hand and are achieving re-mechanisation. Unfortunately they Thermo-Static Heating

sults that would have seemed fan- all involve considerable capital out- HUGE NEW BLOCK

lay, but the farmer has one sub- The house is cooled in summer tastic in 1928.

stantial safeguard Since the and warmed in winter by an intri On suitable land two men using Ministry of Agriculture asked the cate system of thermostatic heating caterpillar tractors can plough University of Oxford to establish

The plumbing is the idea of an

thirty-five acres in a day. Apart and supervise an institute for re- American, and includes an arrange- ment by which even the tempera from the advantage of mechanised search in agricultural engineering, ture of the bath-water is automa cultivation, the new system of har-any manufacturer can submit his machine to the Institute's experts, tically controlled

desired vesting reduces outlay to a minimum who will test it and report either for warmth.

and loss to a negligible quantity. Holland is responsible for the The grain, cut, threshed and sacked his private or public purposes. Be-frontiers in the thinking of each

fore making his purchase the farm- kitchen, and the balconies are the by, the combine, passed through er can apply to the institute and human being is to the theme of the drier to the bins, suffers no loss. And out what the machine can do. The arrangement of the nur. The old self-binder shook grain out sery, with its special window of the ear, the man who shocked the and composition Boor, sheaves shook out more, forking the cart added l088, pitching them waste.a little, and when the stack was complete! came the cost of threshing, and the damage by rata, mice and birds. Wheat gathered wet might remain for March winds to dry, and by then' vermin had taken heavy toll. Un- der the new system the farmer can preserve his entire crop.

into them

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рался .comes from Sweden.

The windows and door frames! are the products of the finest Brit was bound to ish engineers.

The bath, which can be either pink, green, or black, according to taste, is let into the floor.

Press The Button

All cupboards and wardrobes are built in, and the dining-room aidu board emerges from the wall when a button is touched. An extra large diningroom table can be rais-

SAVING LINCOLN MINISTER.

Ancient Edifice Preserved.

the nine great panels which will constitute the able artistic embel- Hebment of the new 70-storey RCA (building.

Three internationally known ar tists are to be the painters, Frank Brangwyn England; Diego

of Rivera of Mexico and Jose Maria Sort of Spain, the first foreigners to win awards from the Rockefeller Center development. The first sketches are to be ready on Decem ber 1 and the finished murals are to be delivered early in April. Mr. On two or three days at this Brangwyn will work at his studio in season of the year there is to be Ditchling. Sussex, Eng. Senor Sert seen in Lincoln Minister a very will produce his four panels at his curious and beautiful effect of studio in Paris, and Senor Rivera is to execute his commission in De- light.

BY THE DEAN OF LINCOLN.

Estimating Costs. The expert estimate sets the field ed from the floor at the pressure of cost of the seed bed at £1 per acre, a button-an idea from France. the seed and sowing at another

At a certain hour when the morn-troit, where he is at present en- at the Mr. Percy Edward who is re pound, harvesting

same ing sun shines obliquely through gaged by the Museum of Art. sponsible for this house of the figure., The atraw goes far to pay the South-East windows of the

for fertilisers at their present low clerestory, its rays pick out one by 99 future, said. ·

"These houses, with modifica-price and a yield of four quarters one the carved figures of the an tions according to price, are with to the acre at £2u quarter leaves a gels.

acre for rent,

Yesterday I could almost have in the reach of the man with an margin of £5 per

rates, lost time, interest on capital believed that they were. tuning income of £300 a year.

"Although I have plcked the and profit. But so great an expert their golden harps-at that moment brains of the world to design the as Sir Rowland Biffen declares that they were, indeed, of gold-for housca, every material used will on suitable English land the aver-some angelic song of adoration. be British, and the workmen will age yield should be five quarters an be British.

The fancy may not be so far re- acro, and that on exceptionally good moved from fact as prosule per "The houses will be the first of soil six may be looked for, provided sons would have us think, for the the houses of the future. They are cultivation is carried out on gen-work of saving this Cathedral Church from ruin and decay is designed to provide present-day erous lines.

In 1918 we produced food for surely one in which the angels may families' needs for the next fifty) years at least. That is why there about four and a half days a week, rejoice. That it has been so saved is a private landing-stage to evory owing to the special effort made by is the simple truth, house' as well as a garage..

Desperate Case "There is comfortable accom- tractors were unknown, the Har- Ten years ago, when my prede- vester Combine had not been seen cessor, Dean Fry, set his hand and modation for servants too.

scarce determined to devote his life 10 "Chiefly the houses are planned here, and "artificials" were.

our agriculturists, though good

Reduced Effort.

To-day we could supply by far the

this work of preservation, the case. was almost desperate.

In the great central tower, con

to be beautiful down to the last and dear.. detail, to waste no moment of sun- light, and to provide what every modern man and woman desires greater part of our needs without structed as it is with a double wall, approaching the effort of 1918, and not a single bonding-stone was In- western at an incomparably lower cost. The tact, The walls of the farmer has two difficulties to face. towers were splitting in overy In the first place, he lacks the capital direction; there were holes in the necessary to instal a Combine Har masonry through which a vester, a drier and tractors. More could thrust his arm.

the maximum of comfort with the minimum of labour."

BALLOONS TEST UPPER WINDS.

Over 15,000 Ascents In A Year.

MEN

over, his holding may not be suit In other parts of the building able. The field area must be at ribs of vaulting, instead of being least twenty acres, some experts concave, were convex, and were in profer more, and where hedges in-hourly danger of falling to the torvene, they must go. At the same ground.

During the year the total num- time, no wholesale destruction of Dean Fry's Work ber of pilot-balloon ascent made in hedgerows is possible without serl. The task was terrific, but in the Great Britain and Northern Ire-ous risk, because they harbour our main-not completely, perhaps, for land to determine the velocity of invaluable insect-eating birde. The in a work of this kind there can be the upper winds was 15,199, ac- other difficulty lies in the fear that no such thing as finality in the cording to the annual report of the mechanising of farms will involve main it has been accomplished,

* Lincoln Minister is stronger to- Director of the Meteorological the displacement of farm labour Office, issued recently, S So far es équipment goes, Dr. day than it has ever been since the The Director states that the year Denham, of the Oxford Institute of day, when Remigius the monk of was remarkable for the completion Agricultural Engineering, has Fecamp, the friend of William the of three undertakings

out that there is Norman, built it upon a rock. Our (1) The complete reorganisa room in every arable county first founder has been described as tion of the arrangements made at for contractors who will take a little man with a great heart, and headquarters in London for the Combine Harvester from the same description may not un- farm to farm; he has also suggest Attingly be applied to the latest preparation of weather forecasta.

pointed

(2) The successful conclusion of ed the establishment of suitable dry-restorer of the church he built a scheme for simplifying the ex-ing centres that the miller may have Thomas Charles Fry also was a change of meteorological Informa ample supplies centrally situated little man with a great heart. We tion between the countries of the So far as comployment is concerned, remember him with gratitude to northern hemisphere.VE any loss should be quickly met be- day, and we do not forget thond (The completion of a series of cause, when we have mechanised who have laboured with him in this tours made by the Super

dent farming and reduced costs, there taak. hief will remain for stock rem of the Nayr Services to the naval stations of the world,to large surplus of straw and grain

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