1933-06-15 — Page 5

THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933.

MOTORING.

MOTORING UP A GIANT TOWER

1,600 Ft. Climb In 3/2

Miles.

NEW PARIS THRILL

to obviate any risk caused by fallure

EMIR BUYS BRITISH

·MOTOR - CARS.

GIRLS DO MEN'S WORK

THE CHINA MAIL.

Visit To Morris Works London Engineering Co.

suite visited the Morris motor-car

The Emir of Katsina and his

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works at. Oxford recently and saw the system of mass production thers. After seeing the assembly

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Run By Women.

ONLY ONE IN WORLD

London.

a

AIM OF ARABIA'S STRONG MAN.

Ready To Fight For Moslem Unity,

Cairo.

"My ultimate aim is the unity of Moslems. For this I shall al

Addressing the chief pilgrimas

VETERAN SEAFARER

RETIRES

Adventurous Career Of LMS. Commodore.

47 YEARS' SERVICE.

London, lof motor-cars from bare chassis The only engineering works in ways be ready to fight."

As a seafaring man Captain C.) Paria. frames to finished and fully tested the world run entirely by women Visitors to the Paris Exhibition products, the Emir placed an order is at Kensington. Every employee, ruler of what used to he knows L. M. S. Irish Mail steamers, has! Thus spoke King Iba Saud, the P. Copeland. Commodore of the of 1937 will be able to drive in their for a saloon car for his personal use from proprietor to office girl, is as the territories of the Hedjaz had his full share of adventures. own cars up a hill 1,040ft. high and and for two 30cwt. commercial a woman and much of the work and Nejd-now the Kingdom of 31⁄2 miles long, if the plans of M. vehicles.'

is manufacturing the engineer the Saudieh, and famous as the

He is retiring after 47 years of Freyssinet, the famous French en- Subsequently, on a piece of waste ing inventions of women. head of the Puritan Arab sect of the sea-during 37 of those gineer, reach fruition.

|land adjoining the factory, the Emir Girls clamber along high shaft the Wahibis and as Arabla's years he has made more This hill-e spiral track-will saw demonstrations of how a Morris ing there, armed with grease strong man.

than climb to the first platform of the commercial six-wheled saloon car guns, while others pry deep into

16,500 trips across the Irish Sea.. great concrete tower which M.jand one of their new six-cyclinder the delicate works of big to Mecca, who has given re- Captain Copeland has been dis- Freyasinet proposes to build for. the 3-fon trucks could negotiate land machines. forthcoming exhibition.

practically impassable to the The business was started by Saud went on to declare:-

ception in the King's honour, Ibn masted, ship-wrecked, run Ascending cars will travel under ordinary motor.

woman and at no time in s his

fashore, and fired at by a submar The Emir was received by Sirtory has any man had a fand in their own power, but for the descent

"I am an Arab and a Moslemine. it is proposed to attach them to a William Morris and other members it. Its founder, manager, orand am now at the head of not

He was in an old windjammer kind of monorail apparatus, in order of the company's executive.

ganiser, and inventor of some of less than 400,000 conbatants when he was dismasted in the its products is Miss A. Ashberry, ready to obey my instructions North Sea by getting caught Miss Ashberry now employs 20 These are the troops of the Union "flat aback" in a howling nor girls as engineers but at first she and have no other aim but the wester. had so many rebuffs from men glory of Islam.

He was shipwrecked years ago that the enterprise was almost "I have crushed all my ene-off the Norfolk coast and saved killed. Some of the girls in her mies. What do they want? All his life by Jumping from the na At the extreme top of the tower,

plant left officers and shops to my activities are clear. They vigation bridge into a sheet held 2,300ft. high, will be a cabin for} The eighteenth annual show

learn engineering. One was a say I want to be predominant and below by life-boatmen He was making meteorological observations second-hand motor-cars opened

to make the word of Islam obey-taken into Yarmouth, his cloth- at speedway rider and another a and a huge beacon, the light of the Agricultural Hall, Islington, on road scout,

ed by every Moslem in every partjing frozen stiff. which, it is said, will be visible from May 13. It contained about 1,000 Not long ago Miss Ashberry of the world.

He was on the Liverpool bar- the ground at Calais and from an cars, commercial vehicles, motor was approached by the British "Is there a man who can do que, the Camana, when it ran cycles and caravans of all makes, at Broadcasting Company to make this in these days This was ahore on the South American It is proposed to build the towelprices ranging from £10 to £1,500, a special gramaphone pick-upachidites" but that day has During the war he had com-

possible at the time of the coast and remained fast 16 days.| on Mount Valerien, on the south-A new type of light aeroplane with She was given the work because

This twin-cylinder cycle engine was ex-the B. B. C. thought a woman passed.--Reuter.

would be the best to handle it as As usual, all the cars for sale were the details were a confidential top of the tower would thus be over 2,800ft. above Paris. This site is "vetted" independently in advance, secret.

The factory makes delicate! : accessible by rail, ruad, and river, and displayed an official certificate and is only a few miles from the of condition for the guidance and aeroplane parts for many of the great air companies, turned parts

SHOW.

of the vehicle's own brakes. A SECOND-HAND CARS the driver will have to do will be to guide his car round the curves, ita speed being controlled at a uniform] rate by the monorail apparatus.

aeroplane in England.

From £10 To £1,500.

western putskirts of Paris, is itself over 500ft. high, and the hibited for the first time.

centre of the city.

If the project is adopted it is re- ckoned that it will take a year to perfect the plans and about two years to build the tower.

ACROSS AFRICA IN BABY CAR

Home After 8,000-Mile Trip.

London.

protection of the purchaser.

of

MOTOR-COACH SPEEDS

When-No "Caution" Will Be Given

London.

New instructions · which have been issued to the police in regard La "peeding" by motor conches mean, it is understood, that in future, in almost every instance where coaches exceed a speed of 35 miles an hour, the practice of send- ing cautionary letters to first offen-

After travelling all the landders will be discontinued.

mand of the Rosstrevor on the Holyhead-Greenore service and ans twice chased by submarines. The second time he saw the WEATHER FORECAST torpedo coming, but he put the

helm hard and it passed

under Showery, with moderate South the ship's stern. for ships. wireless sets, razor in the weather report issued by Copeland wants to settle down in for variable winds, is the forecast! In his retirement Captain blades, motor-car clutches, hois-

sea."-Reuter.

ery machines, bacon-cutting ma the Royal Observatory. this a spot "not too far from the chines, and a patent fly-trap in- morning. vented by a woman-Reuter.

COMEDY IN THE COURT.

Father Fails To Recognise Son

Paris.

The following dialogue took

journey8,000 miles-from East Apart from exceptional cases, į place here between the President Africa in a baby two-seater, a young summonses will be issued where the and a witness during the court- English coffee planter arrived at his speed exceeds this figure. home at Beaconsfield. Buckingham-change is due to the increase in shire, recently.

He is Mr. Alan Cooper, and hel left Nairobi, with a triend named Walsh, in the small car, a Morris.! on February 16.

was a

Although the journey hazardous adventure In itself, Mr. Cooper had few breakdowns.

accidents.

BRITISH MOTORISTS ARE

CONSIDERATE

The

road

martial of a young man accused

of failing to answer the call to military service in France:-

The President: "Is that your son?"

Witness: "I haven't the faint-

est idea, but it's quite possible." The President: "Were you.or

The president of the American man woman, the mother of this were you not married to a Ger- Automobile Touring Alllance, Mr.. "From first to last," he said that Standish L. Mitchell, who is also,

boy?" night, "the old hus went, capitally secretary of the 9.C. of Southern was, but I'm not sure.

Witness: "I rather think I Over the 8,000 miles, and along California which is the second

It's 30 roads which are among the worst largest motoring organisation in|

years ago." in the world.

the world, spoke to 300 members of children have you got?"

The President: "How many I motored from Nairobi through the staff of the Automobile Asso- the Belgian Congo to the West Coast ciation of Britain recently. of Africa, and then 800 miles across He stated that, in his opinion. the Sahara Dalert to Tangier, British motorists are more com- whence. I crossed to Gibraltar and siderate for each other than Amer then went in the car through Spain can, and that so far as noise la con- and France to Paris. There Mr.cerned the position in Britain is Walsh left me, and I proceeded to better than anywhere else in the

the coast, landing at Dover."

world.

B.5.A. 4.39 h.p. 0.H.V. Blue Scar.

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Witness: "I can distinctly remember three, but how many altogether I forget. It's all such reliable people tell me six." Ja back number. I think four but.

(Loud laughter)

the accused. The latter thought

The witness was the father of

at one time that he was a Swiss, had lived most of his life in Germany and recently decided that he wanted to be a French-) Įman. He arrived in France pre- sented himself, for military ser cice and was promptly arrested for not having done so five years earlier. But he was then in Germany. Acquitted.Reuter.

SELF-POLISHING SHOES.

New Invention From Mellon Institute.

Pittsburgh, Pernelvania.

A self-polishing shoe leather has been announced by the Mel- lon Institute of Industrial Re search here.

The heat of he foot, says the announcement, activates a polish impregnated in any colour in the leather so that the shoes "require only a slight rubbing to preserve the desired polished effect.”

The polish Is only part of an entirely new combination of ma- terials impregnated in leather. These substances are said to sup- port and lubricate fibres of the leather thus preventing their breaking down under wear, add to the leather's water-resisting qualities, do away with cracking and to produce a shoe practically scuff proof, se

The novel finish is announced as applicable to varicus kinds of leather, but particularly designed for the kid types. Reuter

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