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Rearmament Making Fresh Inroads On Lives Of Britons

(By Norman Crump)

The Chancellor's statement on capital invest- ment in 1971 is a further reminder of the inroads which rear nament is making upon our lives.

Of Civil Transport

MANY ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

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Appointment of Lord Pakenham to the post of First Lord of the Admiralty is a loss to civil aviation. He learned the business very quick- C ly, and he takes a useful knowledge of aviation with him which will be. respected in naval quarters.

His new appointment brought a strong rumour that the Ministry of Civil Aviation was to be "liquidated" in a merger with the Air Ministry and Ministry of Transport.

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To renders of this column, which has frequently planning za secretive any longer? argued that civil aviation is cluttered with too many Assuming both the artist and MrtILME DES

Whitney Straight have pat Ministries and officials, this rumour, if substantiated, unduly exaggerated the quaililer might have been construed as good news, but the reverse of the 175 we appear to have is the fact, says the Liverpool Journal of Commerce.

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Mr Sopwith pointed out that a few flights were made in Ger many and

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the stocks a respectable civil nirliner. It is not loo soon now It would be a bad move for astronomie expenditure on their to ask for full details from Lord

ΠΟΙ

Minister of Ogmere, the 1

defences civil aviation.

is a young, own

und financial

Civil Aviation, the Bristol Aero- business that must be understood, assistance given to other rearina-

or the B.OAC. plano does not

Company or programmes, and it should not be in the same ment Ministerial harness as the all-absorb more than 15 per cent of so that the world can be made

the U.S. national ways and barges.

productivity aware of a pending British civil allner which wil that

At the The Ministry of Civil Aviatioa It is generally appreciated

even better. business "'contemporary" or even of U.S. as a useful service not interfering the

extent

Helicopter development in the with any other industry or sphere activity will dictate the economy

it should be left of most of the world for years to scale bath for civil and Service United States is on the grand at transport.

quarrel with alone to

come, and few wil priate the best we

similar can produce in civil aviation, my contention that in America uses. The Sikorsky H.5 la

familiar in and in turn not be interfered civil aviation is indeed a business in type to the one

as the 9.51, in activity with a priority invested Great Britain with by any other Ministry.

by much depends on the future of in national airpower as the first use by BEA.. powered

Pratt and Whitney engine di British air transport that it con-line of defener and attack, which to b... with a top speed of 103 not afford to be torn by the for- includes transport aircraft.

RUBTLE DIFFERENCE m.p.h. Range is 278 miles, gross. lunce of amateurs for the saku

6,300 Ib of control weight

hovering of politics. it can only serve There are powers

3,000f1. and absolute Great Brita.

and supplies ceiling by being 11

free and affecting services

14,500ft. It seats four, troubled to girdle the work in the US. as in Britain, but selling the crew and can ac with British air roules

And with the subtle difference of with

"This it could never "reserve powers." Where there commodato transport. tio under a conflict of brass-is industrial planning in Great one attendant plus rescue hotels.

political

The Sikorsky H.18 is an al- by hata" with an eve to Service air Britain

power, tractive medium Ughtweight, are politically command existing in economie controls transport subsidised pasture until required opposed in the US. on the as-powered by a Franklin 245 h.p. diameter of war and a Ministry of sumption that they are too late engine, with rotor

jate 33ft,

lop speed of 111 m.pl.. 10 curtail the to be effectual. Transport ikely

To bring the hovering ceiling 2,600ft., absolute eir charge directly to bear on tst celling 13,000tt, range 300 miles Competition transport in which about one- as we are being "planned" out and gross weight 2,700 lb. It also

seats four, six of the country's capital is of food, instanced in the

The effect of B.B.A. shortages, so we are planned The Bell H.13D in popular in of civil alr transport. civil use, largely because of its out instanced in contemporary civli modest power and cost. It may sircraft of the Stratocruiser and well be light the D.C. class.

yet produced.

but I suspect, under full Lodd The M.R.E.

specification, for wou The threat of inflation with its example, was a B.O.A.C. concep- and in bad weather tend to be In servico Mr Gaitskell was probably wise to refrain from perhaps not yet fully appreciated posedly a Constellation contem- Franklin 200 .p. engine and has

board of when the Great Britain, dominated as porary, giving 100 detailed a set of figures, for any programme Yet it

we are in our daily business by management was the outcome of a rotor diameter of 35ft. the extended is likely to be modified by the passage of events.

Supplies and political planning. It apparently speed is 98 m.p.h... rangé 181 miles, hovering celling 9,400tt., Services Transitional Powers Act, took three years for the manage- would be helɔful if he could elaborate his statement in a

Many inventors of the past and it seats had had great dialeuities In 201-2 White Paper even although such a document might haveIt is extremely difficult for people ment to discover that the North absolute celling 13,000ft, gross

to assess the adverse economic. Atlantie was

more than 1,000 weigh: 2,202 in.

three.

ting the necessary backing to | PENINSULAR to be framed in somewhat tentative terms.

effect now building up on in- mlles agrass and the M.R.E. was dustry in general, except perhaps not even a D.C.A

SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS carry through their experimental

stages, he added, and that dif are on in which they the

in range, much less a

Consta

in 130 engaged individually.

in cap tion contemporary

B H.12 has aculty was capacity

experienced Britis, civil aviation operated and range. It is strange that characteristics of the Sikorsky However, initially

meon degree by Sir Frank. thanks to 312.230 mut.c tha pear, sort bring under our control. Here as a nationalised

and the Bristol Aeroplane Company H.19, but arranged to give a private enterprise and after- aware of the different performance, powered wards, when results justified it. isome recent American figures almost r

shortcomings in its design or a Proit and Whitney 600

or by

h.p. of hope.even a lemote economic entity sho a gleam

Ministerial bocking. but may bring

m.p.lt., its own employees and that per from

it was another example perhaps

that this unfertile. Top speed is 120

to produce a tabunt at Thete fieures show that, at their

a jet engine in spite of the all too familiar of planning

3.3350ft. managed to celling bayering

ross which tops to the air like the [46] peak_s_veral months ago, com official exhortations, with

modities such #rubber.

for years incubate

and 'When to

tweight 6513 lb. and range 300

With With British branch,

the actual ofreraft on civil be scrapped for an entirely how miles. It scale 0-10 passengers. 1. to a lesser as silk and pepper stood at twice every

now Bir ihrte me, indir June, 1950, aviation

a precarious specification to measure up to the The Bell KH.15 appears to be show-a thing of beauty to the

sve even after eye even largely

due to.

efficient

10 years the improvement of the an progressive bad

lightweight Today they are only scenon ir ustiat al other járiera.

planning, inflation and rearma five-year-old Constellation in Service use, powered by a Con- dramatic progresa of let power was shown on either side of it per cent

abovement. No long arm of coincidence scheduled service.

tinental 250 p.h. engine, with a is involved. Taxation on fuel BRISTOL PROJECT top speed of over 100 m.ph, and by the original Whittle engine is prohibitive, a heavier burden The long-drawn-out pro-radius 200 miles, gross weight and the latest Siddeley Sapphire. to me how the

Wa were remtruded that in the been a There has in fact.

on British civil aviaton economy liminaries of the MR.E. were to is 2,700 lb. and it seats two.

short American than on

space of 10 years the power sid have volded

any other competing 3 largo extent duplicated in the

of the dr

engine had flight this kind, backed praction

because, watched foreign airline. A direct result prices during recent months, so two geners pints need making much so that while most metal

like and realready been multiplied tenfold. speciication although looking Although the new The Rest

to 1& the

and this case of progress is stăți "fying their

peak, argued

maintained. Gront Britain being mainta ted

Come saffining prives" zeman

was put out to tender and the ferred Werk

such enmmalities.

of vilicialdom is failure: of inferetes had been per- other

choice of design studies made in bananas," they are in the large mitted.

(a)

would expra. are now practically back instanced in the extended powers favour of the Bristol project in class of twin rator helicopters already has

of the Supplies and Services Act,

the contract appears to which officialdom favours. The brainsto

1948, Bave b

1950, level. of the June, apital expenditure, whether a

have taken until 1930 to sign. 1.31 is powered by a Wright to co-ordinate the two vitai fresh rice in Ameri-national factors of labour and That could happen only in a 1,425 hp engine

with twin Ane clearing

is likely next Au- materials.

FUTURE OUTLOOK No effective action

for surely rotors. It has planned" Industry,

a lop speed of etrinin ean prices intanced

Speaking of the future. Mr of 810 гарде to counter raw na fem of makers or opera 130 m.ph. and hoe increases tum, when the American rearm was

that while Service celling is 16.- Sopwith remarked material shortages, especially tors, could afford the cost of miles.

the piloted jet fighter might rates.

a koriana Fietor, is an open ques-non-ferrous metals, and the these years of trini a008ft., and gross weight 10.113 tion. is reported, however, resultant high prices are only

paper,

has eventually give way to the guided 1. Seating 16-22,

such horrible hat United States manufacturers another adverse factor in that fact, it was known in 1945 that ge

"amniphi-missile or some hat specially designed

Instrument of war, the gas tux- are today carrying large stocks they affect shortages which it a Concilation replacement was bious"

remain the prima ano ho of materials,

one cx-

British civil aviation

which incorporates The pond be that the Govern~ :

mover for many years to come. it not requiremont, or

and skis. aircraft industry. laens mast at its pects lagt Autumn's parke buy turn will vitally affect the civil ment s

and its future in the more This labour factor might be ex-Congellation, at least an aircraft

Largest Service helicopter in emphase the need to curialing of goods to be repeated. The

penased in two examples. An which would fly the North

the Piasecki XH.10, powered by pleasant sphere of civil aviation expradure whether on capital American Government has also

was assured, both in the form of It is a long overall shortage of labour in the Ailastle in normal needs of ceased stockpiling, though it is

two goods o

in competition with the

Wright cagines.

the jet and propeller turbines. Lite.

aircraft industry, a petty plare sufßeient possible that our own and other

strike

D.C.4. agoing

range machine, designed for #

A somewhat pointed observa- a section

than rango emphasis he

ia Western European Governments is- the need to

Now at long last we have been greater loads and of 3.0.A.C.

tion to the USA, by with

Beltish #rease patte

and in par

bar will take up the running. Last mo

maintenance personnel means a afforded an artist's conception of present service helicopters, ticular shakes on the fast, this sur's lous of £38.000 out of revenue what the Bristol 175 will look win tandem rotors, all-metal aeronautical chief, whose con

£70, approximately size and

employing panies engaged in industry to make oil. Their sale, it is true, will

of foreign air com as the Dakota or D.C.4. Passenger shape purchasing lost going to farmers'

panies with reciprocal operating capacity

to tachable cargo will full and esinuous use of the augment

range from at their dignaal mand for

to lecrease the or- power and tools alreart;

goads of Nor has i selved the more

1

no one can say that good poblem of providing specialised the steel in try with be serap harvests are likely to raise world which it needs. For Mr Strauss Prices rather than lower them.

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pared with 1950. bud figure will expendance

Face

of higher prices .#www.twpt." the melam Total

hulu kand Living PORIS, Commodity wh.ch glude plant and murugery. 10 prices, of course, are far from

2.50 use

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proposes capital

Full, power

tnut mat N

netivities

their capita

It is off Gavenmen resteiet.one

untressary Since banka hara

limited in

give prority

COBLE

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The

have xpenditure.

to cartalt 40. 30 78

that base level.

that of, us i kukes-

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a desessen

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their advan

KINOS This is a

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night dir etion.

UNSOLVED PROBLEM

h

programme

canstromy ju

were

moke

The

larger

to

tlo, disputes pending in practically 7-SER, the M.R.E, was allowed to absolute colling 11.0cott, gross proverbial-duek-to-water.-

econom

for

of social planning i might be|pecification of the Bristol 175, lose), i helicopters have been

The

taken

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when,

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tricycle wheels, fonts bine would

problen: et patrisding all those American crop prospects, are overnight, with the business 50 | UK 12 outline it is as orthodox | fuselage, 54 fuselage with des million of capital in the air de-“

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all kinds, rights. Again a petty strike by 82 which approximates the mme arew is the compartment. The font Sopwith's reminder thai | SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

as the 25 troops.

To mention two

by

wds

Pioneers aro delayed for a vital tetol Precus turbo our Seibel YH.24, appears to have | regarding the

nosis

when a rotor diameter of 2011, and # It is particularly important that

Amerian,

production and It can carry "If we have been able to help a section of B.B.A. engineers at elasticity requirement. 4

partners by y's braces (100

giving Prestwick disrupts

Aummer proverbial navvy's

extremes, the our American

tham the technical know-how" Bylg schedules. Dakotas

tas per cent). We also know that the weird looking "Aying platform."

development of planned for conversion to plane will be powered

and efficient jet 3. we look to the A GUANCE

to them for speed of ptured official imagination, but powerful twe or three weeks at a time engines at a cruising

for what purpose it is difficult engines, Against this the American de-

mh.p to see. when an extra six Pioneers on between 330 and 375

It is powered by a mail equal halp from their unrivalled with knowledge and ability to produce fence

H... schedules would operate which too, seems an elastic prog. Lycoming 330 h.p..engine wild these engines in large quantities. programme is colossal.

days Military supply deliveries are at a substantial profil.

in these The real oak is to persuade estimated at $11,000 million for

VITAL POINT

calculations from the aerodynn-has a top speed of 05 m., everyone it: this county that the fetal year 1981, and $98.000 A vital point to my mind in mic drawing board are con-range 170 mües, hovering celling we have this help from. Ames whatever has to prices and miller for the fiscal year 1932 relation to the British civit sidered primitive if not within 3,500ft. Gross weight is 1,500 as we must use our man power as economically · 45 possible, in wages, we tall nil have to live Rearmament orders over these Aviation industry today, is that 214 per cent of actual perform-lb. and it seats -

two, although

tho less comfort bly

order to produce as the resul: two years are expected to total

It sounds uncomfortable.

most of rearmament This is not an $88,000 million, and to hark pile of a large defence and ance.

rearmament programme, wo are It would be Interesting

At the other end of the scale number of units in the shortest easy task, tz while few people back tee a moment to Mr Galts faced

fared with more powerful learn more, about this aircraft. Isa Kellett idea with the Howard possible time."

Sir Frank Spriggs, speaking on can appreciate dukes express- | kell's statement on our

from overseas

the subjent fot-lhe Sapphire. performance characteristics,

gribuch, by, two:Ganeral Kiociric gas

by

Curtis faced with tho

pros- which will see the Thamchi turbines of 4,000 16. thrust each. Weight, of Ameris naid tribute being relegated to the ro

but of thou

to the company's prompted. Mir backsound in favour military

gated Whitney Straight! DESIGNERS HONOURED",

A recent apportant event to sincerity, and concluded the res repeated deputy chairman of B.O.A£, D pro-requirements. America's

can ba

with this observation: and over again that Great say that the Bristol 175 would date in the aeronautical social

that tho very deer and nts.

tho

Americans: have a world of the circumstance

operate

dinner given in London by Mr

Takke is co their sowulay is loc

to

Yet our civilomat in the hope of discovering | Hughes Influence; it is powered

ownem veture-

ed in millions, everyone can son capital expenditure," this. Ameri- | evert that his cuirent income is be- | can Bgure of 385,000 million in- Industry coming insufficient 10 cover) eludes" – $7,500 million for new what he rezards na unavoidable construction. expenditure Defense, expandi❤

Fortunately

62 means ittle to most people, doclive capnelly

ture of £1300 million the 1951-

is also

Translate k ingɔ such termoa, os i large.

A Perere eutir

£30 per bod bf population, or manufacture of motor cats la

railer moTH.

of

and

futuro aa thể: air, bo the cheapest÷aleliner in the world was the'"; comumemorativa: Ing. ******* cenfus for

Fective of..

was

273. per rock; per person aedreted, but unlike us, Ames we are long way behind in average utilisation of 7

Siddeley group of room,

Bylation in

Indeed, a met

dead, a matchless arsenal of de- work, and ¦ it begins fa mean clea's steel, production:is Ta- [çivil aircraft. productivity ·:and | per day,:: and in itæ:18mm; 2. 9. M. Sopwith and'Sir Frank masa, pradicion

creasing. One way and another are now not in the position to version would have staat Springs, chiefs of the Hawker doubt

cardőbatter comfort that any tocesto, the The overit there is a change that world aromany cireumaiances saher airlines ring Wing span honour Buy Trank Whitle and speaking of rockels, gulier GLEAM OF BOPES

senmodity prices may become There mases moble. What happens to which arefecting our civil in work bength 33-11421; and Mr. George Carter, designer of mieilless tindz-sweat and delta aircraft to wings, Bir Trang, dsevrved that While pit of the rs is being our town prices and costa should aviation position and not, the design:gross.unlight, 230,500, 150, the gras - Closter Ievled" fi ve toren of taxing, fem ce our chist presccups-feast in the programing of Need the aumsphere and house the walls Longine for things were on the go "malartio

l'Ambrican productivity. Even the this plane be so reriled. and fight, on the arailversary of the and, unbelievable. pertat la paid through itions today,

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