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Mr. 698

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by JAMES

STUART

Manchester.

UCCESS stories often tell of a young man who comes to Lon- don from the pro- vinces. This one switches the order. Stuart Duncan Davies left London and. made good in Manchester.

Mr Davies, 45, tall, with slight tinges of grey in his dark hair, is responsible, as chief designer of A. V. Roe, for Britain's new Delta- wing bomber, the Avro 698.

To most people the 698 seema revolutionary. But Davies, who admits only to being chief of the large de- Bign team that produced It, sees the bomber as just a "logical development.”

Today, Davies's design department at Avros is as Stuart Duncan Davies big as some small factories; ("Welsh father and Scots drawing boards are counted mother") was born and by the hundred.

brought up in Stockwell. "Gone are the days when- When he left school he a designer could put down wont to work in a car fac a few figures on the back of tory. After two years he de-

an envelope," says Davies. cided he would rather "go into something like air- craft. It was just as simple as that."

CARS, TOO

"We call this a large de- sign office, but it is puny by American standards. We have to make every man- hour count in this country. and we think we

are far more efficient on design than the Americans."

HE became a wind tunnel assistant at the Vickers. aeroplane works by the Davies has been with Brooklands car racing track Avros since. 1988;; During at Weybridge. There the the war he was manager of 18-year-old Davies. saw, be- the experimental depart sidea aeroplanes, the racing ment. He became chief de- cars of the late 1920's. He signer in 1947. has never lost his love of high performance cars. . He is intensely practical. One of his pet sayings is "Let's get down to cases."

He worked on such aero- planes as Virginia bombers and Victoria troop carriers, big bi-planes..

Framed on his office wall is

It

this legend: "The Alibi bird lives in the land of promise, Ries backwards, and sits on the epos of opportunity, but hatches out only hard luck!"

Davies' decided he was going as far as he could in the aircraft business. That meant study. For four years IT VANISHES he dashed up to London

after work-"Just time for

a cup of tea and a bun"

to attend evening classes at

the Northampton technic, Finsbury.

Poly

It was hard, but at the end of the four years Davies

the

o practical a man as Davies

London Express: Berylon

The Delta bomber's designer (No time for flying') turns a success story back to front

A revdlolion' in aircraft design 7 No, Just a logical development," says Binari Duncan Daries, ehlet designer

of the Avro 698 bomber.

The Avro 698 in flight. It is the world's first four-jet “flying triangle" long-range bomber.

Stuart Davies (right) with Roy Ewans, chief zerodynamicist,

and Dick Connor, of the project design section.

Davies does not foresee great For all its high speed possi- passenger – carrying acroplanes bilities, the Delta-wing la, mys dashing across the world at Davies, exceptionally easy to

fly at low speeda. faster-than-mund speeds.

is useful about the house, too.

Neither does he think that all He and his wife and 13-year-old daughter Susan, recently movel aeroplanes will be the Delta foto a new house at Wilmslow, wing shape. Cheshire. It is a ›dream house

With it they could keep funt- ing speeds to the present.limits. The new bombers,

he says,

- could form the basis of a 100-

seater civil airliner.

"But," says Davies, "nobody

said 'Let's make a Delta." "

DRASTIC

for any woman, full of labour- "We do not think it is the saving devices.

shape for all alremalt of the Davies planned the kitchen future. But it is for the heavy, had a Bachelor of Engineer after noting the time his wife long-range load carrier, and it set up in bed one night, and ing degree.•

took to do various jobs. One does not matter whether you He joined the Hawker gadget is on electrically are talking of bombs or possen- works at Kingston-on- operated rotary Ironer, One-gers, Thames. Bi-planes were still touch of a switch and the whois

thing,...ironing board - as well. "The Delta-wing enables you T, did not happen that way, fashion, even for disappears into the wall

to fly as near as you can get to then they were given the fighters. "We were busy on

the speed of sound economically. Ara specification, they startet Harta and Furios there," A push-button opens the

We believe that the Delia craft, and it bocame, obvious

, off to design an ordinary alz Davies says. "Then I work Davies's garage door.

wing design will enable fighters that they could not meet the ed with Sydney Catam on Hobbies? "I don't have time

to operate in level flight at requirements unless they the Hurricano.-

**-for-them," ho says. "I Like

roading, and I do the gardening, operates the speed something drastic-it as the "That aeroplane was the but only because we cannot of sound, perhaps sip to one logical answer to the p first departure from the bly afford to pay a gardener every and a half times the speed of plane tradition. - At that stay." time the whole of our calcu-Davies's delight is his electric (So for all supersonic Bring pilot's licence, I have never lations were kept in one file mower. You just plug it has been done in high altitude had the time to learn Ing cabinet."

In' went : #witch on.?!

power dives, not level flight.) BUS.

..

[sound.”.

Ald

problem.

Docs, Davies 1 bimolf? He does not "Sinke I-bays". been able to afford to pay for u

WHITE HOUSE ON WHEELS

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By KAY MURRAY"?

New York. can be seen that this is a, maje RESIDENT TRUMAN operation. ----:

re-designet in

-Is stumping the The late President Roosevelt, country again this for whom the present Number time to put another man, One, car was Democratic nomince Adlai 1942, liked ambling along at 35

miles an hour.. Stevenson, into the White House.

While the two candidates

cam-

Harry Truman, who creasingly tires his private plane, the Independence, for getting about the country, likes to swing along at a consklorably faster pace.

A

for his job, General Elsen hower and Governor Steven son, are setting. now

The US. Number One la paign records with whirl-

green in colour-apparently wind heroplane tours, Harry favourite Presidential shade, Truman still likes to swing since it la much in evidence in across the country in the the redecorated White House. "White House on Wheels," The only indication of its care- fully guarded occupant is the the Presidential special Presidential seal on the railing train, from which he de of the back platform. livered so many speeches in the 1948 campaign.

*

The "U.S. Number One," THE private car cost the US. Goverment exactly oac as the Presidential private dollarit is a gift from the car is called, represents # Association of American Rail- formidable amount of en- roads. gineering skill. It is heat- There are four bedrooms for proof, cold-proof, bullet- the President, his family and

4 guests, large observation proof and impervious to lounge, a dining room panailed dynamite, derailment, land- in pale timed oak, which seats slides, collision and submer- 12, and a kitchen, pantry and Blon.

The

steward's quarters,

has been

The latter are occupied by When the President de "Mitch," without whose services cides to make a trip in the US. Number One, would "Potus Special" (called ride less smoothly, Samuel Mitchell after the trainmen's special riding the "Potus Special" so name for him), a lot of or long that the Trumans never do ganisation snaps into gear. any menu-planning. They know

Mitch will take care of that.

lays in seven days". Mitch private car, all 285,000 pounds of it, is en- provisions in the ice box when goes tirely jacked

and the call for the Special up

out. "I go to the market my- out examined.

self and buy every bit of it

ho personally,"

with saya pride.

He sees to it that there are

in

DEWEY Long, transporta- fresh flowers in every compart-

ment, plenty of stallonery tion officer of the White the writing desks, and enough around, even after House, sends out a call for spoons the cars that will be needed souvenir hunters inroads, for

the President to have in addition to the Special thing to stir his coffee with. Car

mone-

if the train,

He will There may be as

15 additional comes to a standstill, bake Mrs many as

coaches -dining, pallman, Truman's favourite cake on the amall coal stove, which is an club and service cars anachronism in the streamlined, which have to be tracked in air-conditioned conveyance. from as far away, as 1,000. .miles.

THE Special Car always comes

at the rear of the train.

The passenger agent of the railroad leaving Washington must be notified taining Secret Service men,

It is preceded by 'cars. con

tions

With

communica

of the number of passengers secretaries and White House and the proposed route, aldos, press cars, Each station must be alert- ed, so that every switch is and a car to spiked before the Special sident's automobile. has passed.

teletype machines and radio equipment, Pre- carry the

On his recent whistlestop trip to Ohio and West Virginia,,

cost the Democratic

Regular train services must this be re-routed and re-organized, National Committee, which was since opposing train traffic must footing the bill, the equivalent come to a standstill, and the of 10 first class tickets. President's train must not be Mr Truman enjoys-his "Give followed at closer than a fifteen-ab hell" talks from the rear. minute interval.

platform.

KENG

Security measures, naturally, If he continues to campaign

Intensive.

for Governor Stevenson In the Scouts are sent ahead to some vigorous spirit that he has

the

voter's make, afety arrangements" at begun,

average overy stop and to perange at vocabulary is likely to be much

enriched. which spot the Pre- exactly sident's car will draw up. When

en His tour of the two states this involves 63 stops, as it did added the term hollygostera" an President Truman's famous --unofficially defined na "a cross-country tour in 1930, and fellow who wants office regard- when

Even a stop at a waterless of party platform.or tank on a deserted prairie calls principles to the already rich for. a Secret Service - guard and

colourful Trùmen" ter-

round the President's couch, it minology.

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