1941-08-23 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

MOTIF OF VICTORY

.Beethoven did not know the Morse code. But he wrote in it. By the sheer- est and yet most appro- priate coincidence pos- sible, he employed as a rhythmic pattern in the first movement of his Fifth Symphony what any telegrapher would recog- nise as the Morse symbol for the letter V

There are two coin- cidences here, one of them obvious and of no import- ance. The letter V is the Roman equivalent of the figure 5, but what matters more is the V has be- come in France and other! occupied countries a sym- bol of ultimate victory over the Nazi terror. It is written on walls and else- where to catch the eye of Nazi overseers. It is ubiquitous. So many V's have, appeared as to sug- gest some sort of under- ground organisation.

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PTE. PUPIL: WOULD YOU SAY, SIR, THAT HITLER US INTO A MODE OF LIFE ANTITHETIC TO OUR WHOLE IT BE PUTTING IT TOO HIGH, BIR, TO SAY THAT WE WHICH NAZISM BATTERS. THUS FAR, IN VAIN?

TO TERRORISE IS TRYING EXISTENCE. AND WOULD ARE A WALL AGAINST

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Now, like an increasing- ly unruly child, V is not only going to be seen but heard. For victims of Nazi ambition are now learn- ing to spell out in dots and dashes: dot-dot-dot- dash. They can even sing or whistle it, to the first

by the Aircraft Disposals Com- four notes of the world's

pany, persuading them to give a little more power. Out of that most familiar symphony.

work grew the Cirrus light 'plane If Frenchmen do this as

engine, the Mark I of which was often as sentiment

virtually one bank of the RAF. vee, placed vertically. The Cirrus prompts they will repro-

gine made good, and in turn duce most of the sym- Recently we

been told banned in Brain for

Havilland several inade possible the De The Martinsyde firm Moth, which was the first really phony's first movement, something of the new 400 m.p.h:- years.

plus fighter which is now in pro- changed over to biplanes in defer- | practical light acroplane, power- which

and is based on aduction for the Royal Air Force, ence to official views, and some ful enough (about 65 h.p.) constant reiteration of I was informed that the speed of very fine examples were produc- robust enough to be suitable for

the Typhoon is well over 400 ed during the world war.

school work. dot-dot-dot-dash motifs, miles per hour, that the ceiling After the wur Sydney Camm When the De Havilland Com- are remark-settled with the Hawker con-pany decided to establish an en- one set overlaying another and rate of climb

his gine department Major Halford in crescendos sometimes ble, that the armament und arin- pary, and there was given

our are far heavier than those of first great chance by being given was chosen to do the designing, expressive of an increase Hurricane, and that the en- the task of designing the ttle and the long series of Gipsy en- gine is a liquid-cooled Napier Cygnet biplane for the Lympnu gines destined to win world fame ing fury, as of suppressed Sabre developing more than 2,000 light plane competition. peoples.

The Cygnet was a triumph in By the time the Gipsy series

engineering. Nazis seem apprehen-murks the

This very remarkable aeroplane structural

With was going nicely the Halford re- culmination of the proper load factors it would carry putation was firmly established, sive over this secret wea- growth and development of two

and he was asked to do design on the air- designers who, one pon. They are trying to craft side and the other on the

work for D. Napler & Sop, Ltd. He had in the meantime been study cause confusion by adopt- engine side, have both followed

|ing all possible cylinder arrange- ments, and had come to the con- ing V as a symbol of Nazi their respective professions from practically the beginnings of Brit-

clusion that the so-called "II" victory. But those whosh aviation. It is quite remark-

arrangement had many advant- ages. Small frontal area was one- write or sound V for free-able how one can trace the logical steps by which the paths of these.

of them, and as that was a fea- dom, as "Colonel V. Brit-two designers, one of the aero-

ture for which the aircraft de-* ton" suggested in his plane and the other

gine, have tended to converge to- and it may be that it was while scarcely surprising that, the first of the en- its own weight as disposable load, signer was always looking, It is broadcast naming July 20 wards. the logical and inevitable designing the Cygnet that Camm engine designed by Major Halford as "V Day," leave the con- marriage of their two brain child-formed the habit of scrutinising so for Napiers was of this type. It

ren and the production of what closely

every single structural had its 16 cylinders arranged in fusion "where it belongs seems likely to prove the world's item for possibilities of weight four banks of four each and was -in Berlin."

fastest single-engined fighter, reduction. Camm became chief air-cooled. It became known

b.h.p.

By

C.M. Poulsen

to German ears but ill at-There he acquired and developed into large-scale production

tinsyde company at Brooklands.

was the result.

tüned to Nazi theories. that unerring eye for good lines the R.A.F.

which is so ovident in all his

Mr. Sydney Camm, now chief designer of Hawkers and has the Rapier, and among the aircraft The Nazis find them- designer of Hawker Aircraft and been responsible for such well-types in which it was used, were selves in a veritable vortex ed the Typhoon, was at one time variations, the Hind, the Fury, such good work in the British flect head of the team which has creat-known types as the Hart, all its the Fuirey Sea Fox (which did of sounds dearly familiar in the drawing office of the Mar- and the Hurricane, to mention but action against the Graf Spee dur- some of the types which were puting the present war), and Mercuri, for the upper component of the Short-

Mayo Composite.

Further collaboration has re- sulted in an even better merging of lines in the Typhoon, although the Sabre is a much more power- ful engine than the Dagger.

Pre-War Planning

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Beethoven would never creations. In later years I have have been a Nazi. The known him drive his staff nearly Practical Experience story of his disillusion to distraction by flatly refusing There is no need to follow the to alter by one lota some cowling career of his "opposite number" with Napoleon is twice curve which he wanted; other Major F. B. Halford in great de- told: how the composer and rearranged to accommod- sion of the steps by which he was things would have to be chang- tail in order to obtain an impres- had dedicated his ate it, but that curve had to be led to evolve the Sabre engine. Long before the war I'discuss "Eroica" Symphony to the worked in.

He has always been an advocate ed with Camm the layout of the of the in-line engine. During the design which has now come to military genius of the Early Monoplanes world war he was the "H" in the fruition under the name of Ty- French Revolution only Due to certain wing failures in BHP. engine, the initial letters phoon. And I had many an in- to destroy the dedication the air, the monoplane type was representing Beardmore Halford, teresting talk with Halford in the

and Pullinger respectively. page when Napoleon be-

gan to act like a Hitler. door," with which his Beethoven would have Symphony V opens, has been no more impressed been turned into a motif with Nazi ventures. One of the inevitable knocking feels he would be glad to ominously on doors and know that the motif of windows wherever Nazi "fate knocking at the oppressors pass by.

days when the Sabre" was but a This engine was a six-cylinder single cylinder being run to death: water-cooled of, some 230-240 h.p. on the test bench. Much water The engine was later re-named has run under the bridges, since and called the Siddeley Puma, Sir then, and a few changes were John Siddeley (now Lord Kenil- made before that one cylinder ac- worth) building thousands during quired 23 sisters, and became the Subre. The single-cylinder,...re- After the world war Major Hal-starch was necessary not only ford set up as an Independent, de- because liquid cooling was to be signer. One of his first jobs was used, but for other reasons which tetitivate the R.AT. engines held I cannot disclose here.

the war.

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