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TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1933.

Aviation, Engineering & Building

LONDON'S MODERN SUBURBS:

Opening Up Large Estates.

BUILDING IN BYRON COUNTRY.

One

London.

striking features of postwar building ac tivity has been the development of that pleasant corner of Middlesex dominated by the famous Harrow Hill.

the most of

and

to build two houses at Kenton.

Qualities Of The Wallace

Unique Interchangeable Features

BRITISH AIR MINISTRY SPECIFICATIONS ·

Ib.

THE CHINA MAIL

THE IDEAL HOME

ANYWHERE BY AIR IN BRITAIN

Not Merely Gables And Twice-Daily Service On

Coloured Tiles.

UGLINESS THAT REPELS.

Twenty-Routes.

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being

London to the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth to the Isle of

Bristol to Cardiff. London to Margate. London to Clacton.

Within six months it will be possible to reach nearly every important town and seaside re- Sir Raymond Unwin, President sort in the British Isles by of the Royal Institute of British regular twice-daily air services, at fares no dearer than first-class Architects, had some interesting railway travel. things to say on attractive homes Last year there was one Bri at the resumed meeting of the tish internal air service-now there are ten. Three are ready National Association of Building| Societies at the Wharncliffe to start and seven are nearing

their final negotiation stages. Rooms. Hotel Great Central, re-

Edinburgh will be within two In the Wallace Westland the parachute jumping in view, the

cently.

and a half hours to London-a It is the countryside of

The value which a house could distance of 400 miles. The fast- which Byron wrote so ecstatically. pilot's cockpit aft of the top control cables are taken, in the To-day it is among the healthiest Plane is so situated that a very vicinity of the cockpits. through maintain over a number of years, jest train completes the journey

he said, was more dependent than in eight hours. good view is obtained. The deck the inside of the fuselage fair- the primary most beautiful residential

outer covering. generally realised on good de- Regular services are now areas within half an hour's train fairing in front of the pilot, ings. i... between

slopes away to the engine, and structure and from the cockpit upper part of To trim the machine when no ob- sign. If a house had little of run from: journey of London.

review It would be diflicult to

the Townend ring is seen "edge server is carried, there is a small comfort, convenience, or homeli- the growth of Harrow and its en- virong without being impressed by on," so that it does not obstruct stowage space just in front of Dess to capture the affections, the

the view greatly. The pilot's seat the tail. into which suitable occupant would look out for Wight.

something better; if it presented man whose the part played by a

is so arranged that it can be weights can be loaded.

an unattractive appearance no work during the last decade raised and lowered, and the foot The total weight of bombs furnishes a romantic and inspinay bar, has an adjustment to enable which can be carried is 500 lb. passer by would seek possession.

"For want of good design that Birmingham to Nottingham. story. In 1922 there came to Har pilots of different heights to be in normal service. But for spe-

Birmingham to Skegness. row a young journeyman builder suited. Particular care has been cial purposes this. load can be, house will be the first to fall

Birmingham to Cardiff. 7. F. Nash by name, whose father taken to exclude draught from and has been, increased to 1,000 empty, the last to be re-taken,

and so will suffer the most depre- Plymouth to Teignmouth and and grandfather before him had

the cockpit.

Cardiff. Не followed the builder's trade.

To relieve as much as possible The forward air-cooled gun is, ciation in value," Sir Raymond

Inverness to the Orkneys. bought up a moribund concern, aud with little capital, but much quiet the pilot during a long flight, of course, fixed and fires through added.

"By the design of dwellings is! Routes from Plymouth to Jer- to the Channel, something much more sey, London courage and determination. began provision has been made not only the airscrew disc. The gun is

for trimming the machine in a completely enclosed in the port meant

the Isle of Perhaps he foresaw already the fore and aft sense by means of a fuselage fairing, but is within fundamental than the way in Islands, Blackpool to antart shops and pleasant streets trimming tailplane operated by a reach of the pilot for clearing which the front is crowned with Man, London to the Isle of Man, that are now Kenton, for a great Wheel in the cockpit, but the stoppages, etc. An automatic air-gables, trimmed with imitation, Edinburgh to Belfast will be in part of which he was eventually to machine can also be trimmed cooled gun is normally fitted on timber framing, or tinted with operation soon. be responsible. But there was lit-directionally by a rudder bias the Scarff gun ring in the near coloured tiles.

[cockpit, but duplicate guns can' Disfiguring The Country. fle encouragement in the experi- gear on the rudder bar.

"The fact that many of those. In the observer's cockpit, close be mounted if desired. ence of that first year, and certain-

In conclusion, it may be point ly no indication of the extensive behind that of the pilot, there is activities of which this was the Scarff gun ring for the moved out that the Wallace has, of who build, and more of those jable machine gun. The obser-course, been designed to the load who buy, have such a superficial

factors aid down by the British idea of design is the ver's scat is of the "tip-up" type.} and the floor can be moved out Air Ministry, and complies with much disfigurement of the coun-

these factors both for normal try. Against this the outery has New Waterway Opening of the way when the prone

This Month. fying at a gross weight of 6,300 been growing in volume and The bomber's position is used. two thuse field of fire from the rear gun ish. and for aerobatics at a gross vehemence to an extent that the the principle which was to govern very wide, and by using the firweight of 5.650 lb. The original most hardened offenders can no

"Builders will clearly soon be The canal linking the Baltic] his tuture activities, and to which ing steps on each side of the machine was type-tested at the longer afford to ignore. his latter success may largely be our, the gunner car fire verti Aeroplane and Armament Experi-

good work cally downwards on either side. mental Establishment at Martle- faced with the choice of produc with the White Sea will be for- sham Heath, so that overseas ing better design themselves or mally opened some time in the nitributed-that only

purchasers may place orders for submitting to have better design first half of this month Construc- tion of the canal has occupied ngaship could have any permanent, Parachute and Ammunition

Racks Fitted.

the Wallace with all the confid-jimposed on them..

altogether 18 months. "So long as design is thought During that period there were Parachute and ammunition ence which "passed by Murtle. There followed three years of

of merely as an abitrary manner erected and equipped mechanical- slow but certain progress. And in racks are fitted, and a camera sham" engenders. 1925 there began an enterprise may be mounted on the fuselage Any further information con- {of decorating the face of a bulid-sly 19 sluices, five dams with the commencement floor. behind the cockpit, and cerning this type of machine can ing, the form and management locks, 30 large lockless dams and obtained from the China of which are determined by quite 35 smaller dams, in addition to of business on a larger scale, and operated by remote control. To be led to the formation of the com- leave the cockpits as unencum-agents, Messrs. Far-East Aviation other and more practical con- the digging of the canal itself. siderations, no progress can be some of the dams have been con- pany which has since become one bered as possible, specially with Co., Ltd.

made.

structed of ferro-concrete, for "It is the arrangement of the instance dam No. 21 which locks rooms. the form of the building, one of the greatest artificial lakes and the disposition on the site, in the world. The extent of this which are the most essential ele'artificial lake is 1,300 square ments of design. It is out of kilometres. One of the dams is these that the external appear-11 metres high and required ance should grow,"

450,000 cubic metres of earth to

rea beginning,

Good Workmanship.

But already the foundations of al great business had been laid.

For

in the building of houses Mr. Nash had

value

which marked

luid down

of the most progressive building concerns in the South of Eugland,; that of Messrs. T. F. Nash Ltd. This was the purchase of a site for

50 buses in Kenton Lane.

ALUMINIUM ATOM.

From this relatively small begin Germans Claim To Turn ning the development of that dis- It Into Nickel. trict went on apace, until the firm

had erected some 2,000 houses and more than 50 shops in

Kenton.

PUBLIC WORKS IN PROGRESS

Removal Of Fire Station Now Completed.

SHANGHAI ACTIVITIES

cause of

Imperial Airways are consider- ing a route from London to Glasgow.

WHITE 'SEA-BALTIC CANAL.

Leningrad.

Sir Raymond said that too build. often the lay-out of speculative The entire canal system re- building sites was wanting in presents a very interesting ex- economy, quite devoid of inter-periment in hydrotechnics, since est, and completely ignored the the designers endeavoured to

· Munich. Two Nuremberg chemists, Lud- What had been a country village wig Kaul and Wilhelm Naumann, became a town, now among the claim, following four years ex- most popular extra-suburban dis

perimenting, to have succeeded triets of London.

in transmitting the aluminium} The Shanghai Commissioner of special opportunities to be found utilize as much simple local From that time the history of atom into the nickel atom. Public Works. in his report for on most sites. Either the same material as possible in the con- the one-time journeyman builder is In a telegram despatched to May, states that the re-erection in house was repeated with dreary struction. Consequently earth, bound up with the history of Har row itself. A 100-acre estate was Herr Hitler they say that their Woosung Road of the Fire Brigade monotony and complete disregard stone and timber played an im- and here discovery will make German in-substation removed from Foochow of aspects along both sides of portant role in the work. Even or the even more the gates of the big locks were opened up at Eastcote, there were erected properties of dustry generally, and especially Road has been completed.. Among the street,

of the irritating opposite was adopted, made of timber. un exclusive character. Houses of the armaments industry, inde-other work, the erection speciality types, ranging in price pendent of the rest of the world. Western District Public School for every house being different, re The experience acquired in the up to £5,000, have been and are The discovery also constitutes, Boys has reached the stage when sulting in a complete jumble of construction of the canal will be great Moscow-Volga water route. being Luilt on this beautiful estate. their telegram states, a revolusanitary, heating and electrical in- meaningless and quite unrelated applied in the construction of the

stallations are being made, the con-differences. The most considerable and most tion in the atomic theory.

struction of the roof having been recent development is the South "We are happy to announce to completed.

VICKERSÁRMSTRONG'S NEW Harrow and Rayners Lane Estate. the people's Chancellor," the tele- The following figures relate to

ENTERPRISE This urea, which a few years ago gram concludes, "this new cou-the lifts effected by the electric NEW CLYDE BRIDGE was under crops and grass, will tribution to the liberation of the crane at Wayside Public Wharf

Canning Machinery eventually house a population of Fatherland, we placed our dis-during May, 1933: Lifts, 736; Home 14,000 people.

covery at your disposal in the in-weight, 736 tons; fees paid, Tis.

Newcastle-on-Tyne. terests of the German Reich.228.75. We are beginning work on fur-

SWITZERLAND AND BACK IN DAY.

Regular Air Service.

A striking illustration of the speed of air transport is provided by, the early morning summer 'ser-

NEW PUSS MOTH AEROPLANE.

TO BE BUILT.

Construction To Start Next Year.

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ENGLISH" Prague's Tribute To British Reliability,

SMOOTH AND · EFFICIENT SERVICE

Prague.

BRITAIN'S CONTRACT IN PORTUGAL.

New Radio Station Opened.

Lisbon.

A new step in the British can- The Public Works Department'

ning industry has been taken by ther revolutionary investigations received 4,083.59 fong of materials

Messra. Vickers-Armstrong's Ltd., of a similar kind.

Glasgow.. of Elswick, who, bave begun the

Following the example of Great during the month from Pingchino

A decision to erect another bridge manufacture.

Britain. Portugal has just open. of Bliss presses, Quarry,

jed her new short-wave "Empire". over the Clyde River at a cost of hitherto made only in America. Cleansing and Watering-Road £1,000,000, has just been reached An arrangement has been reach-

A tribute to British reliability wireless station near Lisbon. sweepings collected amounted to

British engineers, have super- here. The bridge, which has yet toed with the E. W. Bliss Co., of appears in the Prague fortnight-| 2,680 tons; gully deposit removed; be designed, will be a highlevel one Brooklyn, New York.

vised the erection of the station The ty The English Post," in an 2,230 tons; water used for street at Finnieston, more than a mile machines will also be manufactur- article by Mr. V. Charles Hales, throughout and most of igone, 1,486,400 gallons; water used westernmost bridge, the George V ford vice to Switzerland which was in-

for washing roads, 2,828,400 gal-Work is expected to be started in! stituted by Imperial Airways on

lons.

the autumn of 1934. Thursday, June 1st, and walch, by The Fuss Moth, the airplane that

The average number of labourers connecting with the daily return pat Britain on the distance record-employed by highways, sewerage service on the same route, makes it breaking map, is to be built no and parks was as follows:-coolies, possible to fly to Switzerland from more.

6,725; artisana, 566; foremen, 420. London in the morning, spend 3: The Leopard Moth, a new and The following concrete ware has hours there and return to London faster machine, is to take ita place been produced during the month: again that same evening.

It will have a 130hp engine in hand made. 16,168 pieces; machine The new morning departure from stead of the old 120-hp, It will be made, 5,965.

Faster Machine Has watering by mechanical water wa-down the river from the presented at Vickers Armstrong's, Craya Czecho-Slovak subject and the machinery was supplied bre

Triple-Control.

SEADROMES TO BE BUILT FOR ATLANTICA

months.

managing director of the English of Institute here. Aene

British firm.

Conidr. E. R. Micklem,

The station is designed, to Vickers-Armstrong's, said to-day Describing a journey from bring Lisbon in touch with Por- tuguese Colonice in Africa and that orders already in hand would Prague to Africa via London, provide work for fifty men for six Mr. Hales says:We are in India. Reuter.

Web England; passengers need have The presses weigh up to 100 tons no anxiety about their luggage: each, and the canning: equipment the porters sytematically bestow ple and in an English ship. In produces tin cans at the rate of everything in its appropriate the "good-byes there is a sin Construction of the huge ara-300 a minute. Production of auto-place. Punctual to the second, cerity to be understood only by dromes to be anchored in the mobile bodies and parts is another the train begins to draw out of one who has lived a long time the London Air Station is at 8.15 a full-size threeseater, and an extra * There were 688 admissions to Atlantic Ocean between New line.

the station.

with English people and knows a.m. and flying via Paris, passenzera set of controls, will be fitted to ore

"We are in an English ship; them well. There is no formal- reach Basle at 1.45 p.m. The return of the passenger seats. The wheels Work shelters during the mouth York and Europe will be started

and 566 cubic feet of stone broken, this fall, it was announced by SUSPECTED PIRATE SENTENCED punctuality and orderliness are ly only genuine and sincere air service leaves Basle at 4.45 p.m. will have brakes.

the watchwords of its in- friendship is expressed. London Air Station being reached at It was a Puss Moth that carried During the month there were Captain Hugh Duncan Grant,

Arreated with a number of sus-credibly smooth and efficient) The ship leaves. Not only Amy Johnson to the Cape and back 898 blocks of buildings under, conformer chief meteorologist in the In addition to providing increased in record time. Another carried struction, 282 plans were submit. British Navy potted plates at, Shaukiwan, Yuen organisation; everybody has his English passengers but also essentielly facilities to and from Switzerland, Bert Kinkler over the South Allan-ted for approval and 133 plans These floating landing fields Tang tal, a Chinese, was charged at clearly-defined duties, and every-English sailors differ The new early morning departure ticthe first time any airplane had were approved Fifty-three valua placed 450 miles apart will be the Central Police Court yesterday thing its proper place in their feelings at such moments from London gives an opportunity of crossed it.

tions of blocks of buildings for 1,200 feet long, 400 feet wide and morning with returning from The second bell goes; fare from the peoples of other nations. wells are made in earnest, and No fear of infidelity. gaaws' at air and rail connections to be effect A Puss Moth took, Mollison across Assessment purposes were made will include hotel accommodations banishment.

He pleaded guilty and was sen- now we can see, unmistakably, their hearts; trust is met with ed from Basle with destinations in the Atlantic and across the South and 4.138 fuspections carried out for 200 airplane passengers, Southern Europe and Italy,

by inspectors.

tenced to ten months' hard labour, that we are among English peo- trust,Reuter.

10,15 p.m.

Atlantic.

Istores, beauty,