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When James Watt Invented the condensing steam engine, ho brought about the Arst Indus- trial Revolution.

Another complete turn may now be given by the brilliant team of technicians and scientists who are busy perfecting the mo- dern gas turbine.,

Nowhere will the new Indus- trial Revolution be felt with greater force than in Scotland. That

because af tremendous stake in power pro- duction and in Industries using power.

our

With about one-ninth of the

population of Great Britain,

Scotland turns out almost 40 per cent. of the ships, 15 per cent. of the steam locomotives made by private builders and 50 per cent. of

of the steam raising plant. If the gas turbine engineers get their head, these Industrias may dua for #terrific Impact.

Whether this will be for weal or will depend on the people

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in control.

If industriallats eon adjust

themselves rapidly, the country

may gather new strength.

they fall in imagination

adaptability then Scotiand

into wasting decline.

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It

and

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The

die is now being set for the Anal casting.

The idea behind the goa tur- bing is as old as Hero of Alexan-

drin. He experimented with simple atcum turbine several hundred years before Christ. It consists in harnessing the power in a jet of gus (and steam by like any other gas to the scientist).

James Watt Was Crude

The idea, however, had to re- main dormant for thousands

yours until the engineer and steps,

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mit to gas turbine development and pull mation and the need whole system of mass power pro- Water Determined at the present day still Iles with for changing reciprocation

into duction the engineer and the metallurgist. rotary motion.

dependenen 20 set free from its

Industry James Watt's Invention, though The Internal combustion en- Hydro-electric power schemes revolutionary, was comparatively gineers had another idea. They take out the energy from falling The upshot of this is that the crude. I considered in burning burned the fuel right inside the water. That is elay to under-centres of power production have coal under a boiler to raise cylinder, thus doing away with stand. What is not. so well to be located near water. They steam, in leading that steam to the crude arrangement of burn-known is that steam power atu- need it either for power, or for LINCOLN

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1152 tremendoas anything else, which determines verting the push-and-puil motion The gas turbine is a synthesis volumes of water.

the hard skeleton of an industriai into rotation and thus getting of both the turbine and, the in- The comparatively modest country. power supply.

ternal combustion engine.

power station at, Clydes' Mill, The gas turbine, if it comes to near Cambuslang, uses water at anything, and that is as near the rate of 200 million gallons a certain as can be, will throw all day when going at full load. the old idens of power produc- -That-is-three times the rate of tion_and_power location into the Well, the great thing about a consumption of the whole city of melting pot. When the steam turbine was gae turbine is not only its high Glasgow. The water is pumped |

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All this meant that energy was

The Casual onlooker may lost at the various steps so that wonder what this has got to do an ordinary steam engine work with him. It is all very involved ed-from-a-boller-house-is-neces-and-scientific. sarily inefficient.

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hibition, some pictures of

at

racing

Front-Hinged British Cars Doors For

Safety

-Sir,-On

returning from—a

journey, during which my front-

Heat passenger, intending to open

bis

window, pulled the door

Does this

that really "mean

In American

Market

in which the average American

At a recent Safety First.ex pick up a

handle instead, I happened to It is essential for British car copy of "The Motor" manufacturers to provide some- cars were used to point a moral, and saw illustrated on adjoining thing really out of the ordinary. but while I have every sympathy pages two new British curs, cach with the aims of the show and the leading edge..

with all four doors hung from can take pride, mnaufneturors ar avid to ogle racing plctures

want to market their products any hour of the day or night,

successfully in the highly com submit that the moral drawn British manufacturers are at long petitive American market. That from that particular set was the last beginning to realize the plain the opinion of Sir William wrong one. "Here," said the in hanging all their car

common sense of the Americans Rootes, chairman of the Rootes captions, in effect, "are-

doors Group. who some from the front?

has just returned motorcars, belonging to chaps

from the U.S.A," like Muys, Cobb and Parnell, Although travelling only at D The Group is to market its Cars Very, very fast, of course; but moderate speed, the occurrence and commercial véhicles In they are all right, really, and mentioned nearly ripped off my America and arrangements have quite respectable, because their near-side front door. Had I been made in the main centres owners use them only on special been passing close to another of the U.S.A. for comprehensive circuits, where their speed con- vehicle, or alongside a high bank, service and spares facilities. not do any harm: On the pub- we should have been overturned Sir William said that one as- lic roads, of course, speed is out and involved others in the smash.

sot possessed by many Brllish of placa....

This is the third time when I

cars was the fact that they were have been driving front-open- approach. How much better to have said something like this a nasty accident has not happen in the cost of petrol in the States,

their "These cars are highly specialized ed from the same catise. machines, designed to go

From the standpoint of comtrond fast. Fundamentally,

non safety, what possible excuse, though,

Avolding Occasional noticeable they are controlled in exactly the other than same way as an ordinary family muddy guard, can be offered for terested in British cars of the soiling of one's coat against a generation of Americans was in- Ten; the reason that men like Mays and Parnell can go so fast clinging to this dangerous prac-semi-sports without hurting themselves les tice?

That, I suggest, is the wrong in doored car that by sheer luck casy to park with the rise

very

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in the one word: Skill. Speed,

used intelligently, by people who

economical

performanco hould be a sales factor. Another becoming increasingly. was that the younger

British panvicat task

know what they are doing, does NO SCOTTISH SHOW Pry should be given for the

harm. The way to cut

no

was to make its products avail- ablo overseas at competitive

and prices;

to do this every

expansion and Improvement of down accidents is to encourage The annual Scottish Motor Ex-factories, Sir William pointed out the highest possible degree of hibition is not to be revived un- that American Industry was pro- skilt in all who use the roads; til fato In 1949, according to an

spend £1,050,000,000 posing to. you know what you are up to, announcement issued by the

the in the first half of this year you will keep out of accidents Scottish Motor Trade Association. either on new plant or on the yourscirp

and help others to do. It was felt that it would not be modernization of old plant.

Bart of nice! the same.

So learn to drive, to the general ride, and walk skilfully!"

ing members nor of

A series of exhibitions, aimed manufacturers to promote an ex-

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at putting this ides across would hibition, the year, there NEW

· Is have a most telling effect, Ia strong export motive for an fancy; especially. If Local Au-International Motor Exhibition, Essex county police force bud- thorities staged them Imagin- in London this year, similar gotted to spend £40,000 on a new atively.

Justification is not evident in the fleet of cars. But such high prices Besides the indoor,

or, statle Scottish Show..

shows, I suggest, they could have demonstrations of driving both

bad and good. For instance, A

of

Ielched when their 'old were vehicles came to be sold that the net-cost-of-the new ones. Wer onlý

£830.

car park or other open space lighted with the free entertain- could be.

fooded and given over ment and go home understand to demonstrations of advanced ing, possibly for the first im STRANGE STORY motoring either by police dri- that there is more to "good driv vers or by colocfod members of Ing' than just keeping gut Home Totor

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trouble, and that a motorcar need Under an Act of 1935 a boy comment-bo no more unmanageable in a aged 10 was recently fined at and, if skid than a soldier is out of con- Ely, Cambridgeshire, for "furious"· properly tral when "changing step."-leveling and causing a car to overs

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