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Blowing Britain's trumpet--No 1:

runway

THE

in а

■

CRAFT IN A CAR

By Reginald Pound

born boy.

one of the rarer feats of hand.

Good for figures

Good

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Incidentally, Myrtle has alway

Looking for bright particu-

He can do it with equal assur- lar kinds of skill among 17,000

ance alone or watched by you. workpeople in Birmingham

He it was who lined the millionth Austin car,

The Home Secretary sa) preoccupied by motor-car gearbox. He likes patternmaking, was one himself, as a Worcester-|

bed You might not suppose

dubious manufacture,

individuals have much works "Yes, I do like it," he says in

skill is wanted in polishing a car

landing in Britain, where production keeps up. a tone that carries conviction.

Conservativa supporte He will show you part of his on its way out of the works. delivery rate of a

Continent Link with past cara minute,

department which looks like Jessie Davis, from South Wales, returning from

this intel is Д formidable

Alm studio "props" store. It to who has been pollshing at Aus holiday are ignoring Common to the benches of both crammed with patterns for car tin's four years, would not claim attack on the middle classes. undertaking. The problem is toolmakers and patternmakers roofs, lorry-cab tops and sides, on behalf, of herself and her fel- to decide precisely where to are the toolchests which each man ear doors, car bonnets, car pretty low women polishers that it is start the quest.

makes himself and in the making well-everything-clsc.

As the selectors expected, th You have had a glimpse of the finish, is reflected a quiet, in-plaster of paris and have been

MCC are going to kneed Compto and finish of which, especially the

They are made of wood and dispatch department, a

down in Australia, concrete herent pride which is not pro- returned from the foundry, hav. of cars extending, it claimed to you but which you ing fulfilled their function of im-needed, especially for the polish-been under the impression the

A certain knack, if not skill, is looks to you, into infinity. It is, sense is there. You feel that you pressing their manifold shapes ing job which they speak of as in fact, a quarter of a mile plus are in touch with the spirit link- and sizes into sand for the final "cutting down the orange peel." 4 test match is a trial marriag 22 yards long.

ing craftsmen down the ages.

These

metal castings,

That means reducing the thick- miniature chests of Intricate know-how drawers, some obviously fashion- which put an old skill out of uniform level, so that it will take It is not always the machines ness of the basic paint to a ed out of affection for the job as circulation. Style, fashion, taste the higher stages of polishing to Cars of all the Austin series are well as from old custom, contain can do it. Car inish, for many come. crowded there, just off the assem-the tool-kit saved up for

and years

until bly lines and ready to roll out bought, often at a sacrifice, when picking out salient points for de-ing them may well be a skill. It

recently, included There are risks in that. Avoid Into the markets of the world. apprenticeship was more highly coration with gold or red or other requires a certain touch, partl-

Waiting to receive the final esteemed than it is now.

colour lines. Now the demand is cularly with the electric mops. flick of a polishing mop, or to Francis Ross, soft felt hat worn for chromium bevelling instead. It takes four girls ten minutes have their built-in radio sets ad-at the back of his head with the But George Smout, who

the new wavelengths, or brim turned down all round, is been at Austin's 20 years, can Jessie says the bending, the stoop.

hna to polish a car on justed to The recent optimistic for some other Inst-minute check, in charge of the young pattern. still do a bonnet line with beauti-ing, the stretching is very good statement of the Director of they give an impression of so makers and likes to recall that hel ful precision. Operations in Malaya has know-how that you feel it useless great a concentration of intricate

for the figure. been given a wide welcome to try to pick out any individual General Briggs stated that demonstration of it. And not the Communists would be-only useless, but a bit unfair.

But in motor-car production, as

numerous other

be

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PROGRESS IN MALAYA

It is

an average.

African steel men's myth

elephant's trunk”.

By Geoffrey Jenkins

Iscor steelworks, Pretoria, the

so known.

iron

Tho

mountain dwarts, or from mon-

blood in pledges to Chinng.

Nationalist soldiers are në said to be drinking their

You can see how useful th blood groupings will be. goblet. chance

01

Friend of mine in Calitor.

of getting the wr

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has got a new job with nonl

manager.

of tree surgeons. He's a; brai

זי

"It warded off any possibi of taking serviously document."

That is, of course, s possibility had existed in Arst place.

A certain Alm star had

she

gure insured for half a mil

until

premium.

0

fell down

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on

gin to crack after the "bulk In settlement" of Chinese squat-activities of our time, most of the the knowledge which built the bellows to the forge is known Africa's legends.

specialised The Africans believe that, To this day the air pipe from The legends of iron are part of ters throughout the country. processes that formerly required

creator This is a big programme, but personal human skill have been the steelworks of Sheffield in many African tongues as "the gods of some tribes are saldo was learned from elephants.

In the great have had their own blacksmiths the back of it should be delegated to machines. broken early next year.

the making of those I discovered this when asking

even before they set about creat machines, and here in these works them about their attitude to the

ing the world. The most satisfactory fea- it is done "on the ground" to use big new state-owned steelworks

Other tribes in Central Africa May be some truth in t ture of this solution is its con- the Black Country term, which starting up soon at Vanderbijl

claim to have learned the art of suggestions that MacArthur 1 structive nature. It is not still calls for the traditional part-Park, on the Vaal River, to turn

con smelting and forging from be promoted. He's now smok Instead of nership of hand and brain.

meerschaumi out 1,000,000 tons a year. merely a question of separat So you find your way into the The blacksmith and acts of

keys.

corneob. ing the squatters from the toolshops, an indispensable part of smelting and forging iron figure

who seem to have been The Karanga tribe of Rhodeslá outlaws and thus robbing the this huge place, to see men doing in many African myths about the air-feeds into blast furnaces are empire which extended over what to a dance and found it was di

Did you hear about the the the kind of job their grand-Creation. latter of money, food, in- fathers, who

Iron-smiths of

disappointed butterflies who w the Monomotapaj formation, and recruits. It is seen a motor-car, used to do be. prerequisite to making iron was may never have The African belleves that the

The first man

is now the two Rhodesias and the

h moth bali? also necessary to provide | fore them.

the knowledge of how to make

Congo say that the first man was security and a better life for much to Britain's industrial suc-phants are credited with possess been found about

Toolmakers have contributed as fire, In many native legends ele- old, shaped like beehives, have hoes, and thus tiled the ground;

"Mrs. La-Croix is manager Iron furnaces, about 4,000 years smith who forged spades and

a bird clum.” the squatters as a permanent cess, past and present, as

Hitherto her miles and his wife, the first woman, other ing this knowledge,

family h solution. The squatters in-classes of worker, and, it would being that they kindled it with Rhodesia. Many exist in Northern grass.

the notion North West of Zimbabwe, gave birth to the animals and the managed to keep it a dark secr creased greatly during the be reasonable to say, more than their trunks, Japanese occupation, when some. the economic system went to pieces. Many of them had to leave the derelict rubber estates and fend for them- selves on the borders of the jungle.

craftsmen allied to the pattern makers who work, a stage buck in the chain of processes, from blue- print to completed ear, not with mahogany. steel, but with wood-pine

The toolmakers are a race of

DRU

Like the toolmakers, the pat- ternmakers' services are vitul and drawn on an old and indepen- dent skill which is often heredi- tary

Transvaal.

300

He's a 20-stone fighter

By George Addicott

On the Gold Coast the creator A Bikini bathing dress--t)

god of the Ashanti people ordered bare minimum of uit design

his blacksmith to forge the first to show the bare maximum, two dozen human beings and girl. animals. In the Sudan, a white

1

cockerel is said to have forged the car stopped in the dark lan

"I'm sorry," said the youth. the glittering stars. In Nigeria

the tribal god ordered his black- "but we're out of petrol." smiths to dry up the water which "Really?" queried the girl, S submerged the world-they used fished their blacksmith's bellows,

for

mome

Jarge a

around and produced a,

thet

The lad brightened vis

The smiths are the sages, the interesting-looking flask.. great medicine men

And

ndvisers of the African kings. "What's in the flask?" he a The smiths make rain, and in

"Potrol," said the girl col

say "It is raining."

forging.

power.

but it is

Africa has

R

д

Use

The Briggs Plan settles them permanently and gives them a stake in the land with ample protection against

You meet Leslie Turner, flying those who both use and abuse officer, RAF, in the war, now 28, If the bold plan for a new if I never do another thing for Nigeria the Yoruba tribes do not them. Thousands of squatters married, and a father, and asking British dominion--Capricorn Northern Rhodesia that at least you to taka his word for it that in the heart of Africa is have already been rounded this is a good life, this transcrib-

was worth while." up and sent to re-settlement ing the language of a blue-print ever realised, it will be a live times as big as England and Northern Rhodesia nearly

Iron money areas. When the job is com- into terms of wood which is to go credit to a fighter.

Wales, and more sparsely popu-: Motallurgy in forth, presently, to the foundry to pleted, the same thing is like create a shape to be reproduced in status which would unite Sou- land--contains the richest copper mere art.

Behind this drive for Duminion lated than the Highlands of Scot-much wider significance than ly to happen to Communist steel.

thern and

It is Identifled with Northern terrorism in Malaya as had He is working as you talk to with Nyasaland is the figure of wealth.

Rhodesia, deposits in the British Common- the very concept of creative happened in other countries, him, on part of a pattern for &

the fighter who talks fast and Administered by the British

Most

African smelters Aghts hard. including Burma the Com-

Government, the territory was furnaces based on the principle of munists will begin to de- Eurasians are serving in the than 20 stone speaks, you expect ter from Queen Victoria by the

When a man weighing more originally occupied, under char- those used in Britain up to the fault when they find they Police jungle squads, in the to hear a slow, prowling voice B.S.A. Company, which still re- the simple ones of East Africa to 181 century. They vary from get no food or money.

Special Constabulary, and

like that of Eugene Pallet, the tains the mineral rights. Hollywood-film actor.

elaborate _furnaces. among the Early next year, too, the with the village guard units. Welensky turns the scale at 285 pany

Roy

Royalties payable to the com-traditional Monomotapa smiths, Malayan public will be But there are also excellent lbs., but his

on all minerals roso which are given mugleo-religious actively helping in the anti-Malay combat troops in the of a silver bol us the quality from £276,000 in 1945 to more signiflcance.

bell and he speaks than £24M. in 1949, and this guerilla operations through four infantry battalions of

Among the Shona of Rhodesia rapidly,

year they are expected to reach the act of blowing air into the the Home Guard scheme. The the Malay Regiment.

Of Polish descent, Roy Welen-24M sky was born in Salisbury

furnace is identified with the act out-and-out fanatics who lead Several thousand Malayans January 20, 1907, He left school successful campaign to

Welensky last year fought a of procreation, and the furnace the Communists will never of all races are also serving at 17 and was heavyweight box-development of the colony,

divert Itself resembles a female torso, at 14, became a railway fireman same of these profits to the give themselves up. They with the various British re- ing champion of the two Rhode-

Besides making everyday im- plements, the African also smelts will, in the words of General giments in Malaya. Malaysias before his nineteenth birth-, concluded in London, the Com-used to pay for his bride.

In terms of an agreement since a kind of iron money which is Briggs, "either starve in the Gunners of the First Singa- day. jungle or be killed." Even re-

pany's right to claim royalties Then he became chairman pore Regiment of Royal Artil- the Broken Hill branch and a meanwhile 20 per cent of the sweats in front of modern blast Today that legendary creator of will lapse on October 1, 1980, and the of cruitment is becoming dif-lery often operate against member of the National Council net revenue from royalties will furnaces, but brings the eternal world, the native smith, ficult. The bandits cannot the bandits in the jungle as of the Rhodesla Railway be

on

Government.

take in many because of the infantry, a role to which they later he was elected to the care paid to the Northern Rhodesia on to the flery hearth when he

Trade unionist

BLACK SPOT IN EXPORT DRIVE

A new black spot in Bri-

HAVE GO AT THE SOCIALIST

BEAUS FOR OF

Had it specialy rigged För tha

Tory Conference! ''

Come in!

Workers' Union. Five lack of enough arms to go have

grins and says: "Listen to the adapted themselves lative Council, and has been re- Legis

So in this year alone, an extra elephant's trunk." round. And they are not al- quickly.

These men

£600,000 will become available were turned unopposed at every for development schemes. ways sure they are getting locally enlisted personnel in general election since then.

Such real Communists. The hard the British Army in Malaya Director of Manpower in Northern

is the measure of Welensky's For his wartime services as achievement. core in the jungle, estimated before the war, and they did Rhodesia he was awarded the at between 3,000 and 5,000 re- well in defence of their CMG in the New Year Honours main. The so-called week- country against the Japanese.] List of 1846. enders who slip out of the They are all, of course, volun- estates to the jungle and re-teers, as there is no conscrip-| A staunch trade unionist, ra- tain's export drive has been turn to work on the Monday tion in Malaya,

presenting a constituency com- discovered by correspondent are decreasing.

The Malayan other ranks posed mainly of miners and rail-Gibson Cowan in Iraq. This Already the policy has dis- have proved loyal and use Labour Party in 1941.

waymen, Welensky formed a rupted the normal Commu-ful to the British

time the unfavourable report Army, nist food supplies.

Guerillas especially in this jungle cam- had achieved its object, he vir- concerns a number of Lanca- have been compelled to split | paign. The standards of that there was no room in Nor- deliveries of textile machin- tually disbanded it, remarking shire factories which, by slow up into smaller parties and education and physical fitness thern Rhodesia for sectional poli-ery have apparently lost Bri- bour on the rubber estates, | training hard and applyips not Socialism but self-govern mitless goodwill. to operate closer to the la- are relatively high. By Northern Rhodesla, he

tics. The political target for tain thousands of pounds says, worth of machine orders and therefore plans

Once Welensky's Labour Party

from whom they force food the new skills they have ment. He and

other ald-instead of have been taught by the start a felf-Government Party The trouble began when one of having it brought to them. British soldiers, they have to fight the next election in 1953. Iraq's biggest spinning and weav Progress is slow but sure, taken over a great many British Government to encourage machine spares from a Lanca- Meanwhile, he is urging the ing companies ordered urgent but the clearing up of the tasks, especially in transport white settlement in Northern shire firm. That was more than breeding-place is going on all and supply, which would over the country at the same otherwise fall to combat desis, rate:

and wants

to raise the three years ago. Recently aceing to at least no sign of the spare parts the time and not merely in the troops, and thus released 10,000 year.

Welensky still

cancelled the order and lives in the placed. It company

Instead with danger areas. The criminal many of these for service in

a European wood

and iron railway cottage firm Within three most

the investigation branch is being the jungle. They act as No. 24 Central Avenue, Broken spares were on

on their way. strengthened and a para-mili- truck drivers, gun crews on 17

Hill which was allocated him Nor, according to our corres tary force of police is being defence batteries, and guards years ago.

pondent, is this an isolated In- formed to hold the gains and on vital store-hauses and remiorough hole now one of the stance of slow deliveries and in- engine-drivers оп the explicable delays. The position prevent a resurgence of ban-military establishments, They Rhodesian Rallways, he has not has become so serious that some ditry.

work as skilled craftsmen in years and his principal source of ery a year may soon have to be driven a train for more than two £30,000 worth of texillo machin- The job is mainly a Police Army workships, repair tele-income is a newspaper, circulate ordered from firms cutside Bri- responsibility, but as the phone lines, operate switching in the Copperbelt, which he tain unless the Lancashiro manu- Communists resorted to armed boards, and tap out fele started at Ndola: In 1943 BAN facturers speed up deliveries...

His hobbles pro ́gardening, and,

and Already, both Italian and Ame- force to gain their political graphic and Morse signala istening to gramophone records,

ričan firms objectives, the British Army They also serve in many of which he has nearly a thou offer good machinery at compens is playing a big part. But, capacities. In the hospitals, sand, and bra brices and guaranteb 'quick deliverice. Within a few months as a Military „Observer ein- From the Army they get ex- Greatest achievement 5

Orma ·Aro" expooled to phasison, British troops are pert training and in return. When I asked him what ho offer lill cheaper tenders, age, by no means alone in this they are rendering many regarded as his greatest achieved All of which need be no threat ment, be laid, without besitation; to Britain is a Kaw Dome syt Out campaign. Largo, numbers of varied and important: "#dr-

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