1954-01-02 — Page 5

FILES

GOING

AWAY! XMAS?

DON'T LET THE STRIKE STOP YOU Book

NOW

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARÝ ̋2, 1954.

"Let's not tell 'em the strike's off-and anyway we nobbled the horse...

募

TRAST MARN

BOOTH'S

FINEST

DRY GI

LONDON

WCH HOTELS STAFF OUR SIN

In all things...

there is

only

ONE

BEST

WHEN MENUHIN IS 87

-that will be 50 years from now

O Yehudi Menuhin is

grounding himsell. By Neville Duke

Sa

He greets the 50th

anniversary of the

Wright Brothers' historic

flip by giving up flying.

THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS TEST PILOT

The astonishing half- LET US FORGET THE DREAM TRIPS

century

that has

tra-

formed their flimsy And TO THE MOON – AND LOOK INSTEAD graceless craft into the

sleek

and sure-winged AT THE BIG PROBLEMS WE FACE NOW Comet is not enough to still his misgivings.

to offer

PONAALEPKNCE

figures,

with

even

The deck would be a flexible

Useless, then. fer The 1973 to 1983: A drama-

tic de metal sheet suspended off the cade, in my opinion, The dawn ground, and the plane would be facts

hook of an entirely new period for pulled

with a up short though these demonstrate pawKSIKOTS.

in is us safe

L

that a man

a city street.

device.

Alomle-powered airliners are

Remember Mat it is only 14 an aeroplane as in mly what I am thinking of. Their

shape will be radically different years since the Heinkel 178, To set the vast power increases, powered by an HeS2 gas turbine, and their size too will be much made the world's first jet fight. So, of course, there is ampie greater.

time for remarkable develop ment of the jet's possibilities.

Instead, let me

describe

to Mr Menuhin and those who share his doubts the progress they may expect in the 60 years ahead.

once

In

One thing I can say "{ with conviction: each tif those 50 years. safer

flying will become

and safer still.

of

Here is the pattern progress as I see it. And

I want to stress that it is no plot's pipe-dream.

What I am outlining is the course that develop ment may reasonably and realistically be expected to take, based on knowledgo alrendy in the posscy-

· of sion with their feet on ground.

the

These airlinera will fly al what now seem astonishing speeds- 1,000 miles an hour от faster.

even

Similarly with the rockets of AD. 2003. Qe noise, and the flames, und the smoke will not bother the passengers, But the more alarming effects of the firing will have to be screened

from the onlookers, or else there will be a batch of potential passengers scared awny at every take-off.

from the outer shell (which will get hot with friction as it surges through the air).

It is pressurised, heat-con- trolled, air-conditioned, and mounted gyroscopically, so that It automatically keeps you level throughout the curving flight.

the force of the

ac-

The hostess sees that you are This point will count all the properly settled in your berth, more because in A. D. 2003, and lying it on your back to think, rocket travel will still be sustain something of a novelty. Besides, celeration. even as the rocket

emerges above ground It

The passage through

loudspeaker warns you the air will causo

substantial

that the rocket is about to take inclined

off, and tells you not to try to disturbance, So I am to think that rocketliners will, raise your head. The charge is in their early years, leave from area andy, are hurtling up stations well clear of the towns. Into space.

I

DAY TRIP

IMAGINE that London's rocketport will have to be somewhere A

in the middle of Salisbury Plain

of

Eventually, the landing of jet will go something like this: As the plane comes in the Jet will change its direction thrust, and, almost hovering, the plane will lower itself into its vertical garage below ground, 1983 to 1993: The turn There it will settle on a cradle,

ot the

ready to take off again as soon atonie planes to consolidate,

Planos ny vast and as complex as it is reloaded.

as I have hinted will need to be By A.D. 2003, then, I visualise flown and operated for 20 years aircraft landing vertically or inore to recoup their opera- air stations in all the big towns. tors for their cost.

There will be strides, how- ever, in miiltary dying.

tho jeta

You feel yourself pressed back against your couch, Your limbs are leaden, But there is nothing to worry about. You are experiencing a force of 30, which means that your body is three times heavier than usual.

AT A TOUCH

This is an impression of what your

day excursion to Aus- trolla

will be like. You buy your fleket in the outer office of TN less than a minute the ac- your local nir Kation and pass celeration is over, and you button that converts through into a reception cabin. touch a

your couch back into an arm- chair.

The whole cabin, powered by jela under the floor, rises

On the last stage of the trip traight into the air. Then the

the jels swivel sideways and propel wings will sprout from at

rocket's body and, slowing to the rocketpors

gradually, the pilot will By in Meanwhile, Customs and to land. passport formalities aro being completed.

Many of these alations may well be converted mala-line railway stations. But instead of engine sheds above ground there will be hangars below the surface, lo cut down the take-off noise of the jets.

flying experts 1993 to 2003: By now, Today, the din of the Comet will have been relegated to in- taking off is not heard by ine ternal routes of about 300-400 passengers aboard. But friends miles. They will be to flying on the ground waving a send-off

get the full effect. nobody what the tube is to rallways. percent

But of course can, with 100 accuracy, forecast the trend of future air develop ment.

1953 to 1963; In

+

The long-distance flights will be made by rocket-liner. Speed, comfort, and safety will all be of a standard hardly imaginable

ΠΟΥ.

But what may impress the passenger as much as any of This will be the enormous f provement to be expected in the convenience.

next

T

The rocketliner looks like dart, or a long, slim, sharpened pencil with tạil vanes. There are wings, but you do not seo them, because when you go on board they are retracted into the body.

That is, if there is a plot on board, for the rockets will soon be controlled by radio from the ground, as iets will already be.

In less time than it now takes to go to Brighton by rail from London you will be in Aus- tralia, with full day to spend with your emigrant relatives before returning home the same

The passengers' cabin ia a separate unit, heavily inmaiated night.

GAMBLERS ARE MUGS!

By LES ARMOUR

London, He got a Harvard man to it can be assumed that they

What happened?

AMERICA'S Harvard and "subjects" rolled balin down it of he would sly as moet

Hopkins Univer- through a serion of electrical For, during the next 50 years, sfties have been doing some barriers into eight holes at the decade, I think airliners the Trip To The Airport-that will fly not much faster despair of the air traveller-wresearch into pin tables bottom. They were told the than the Comet of to be eliminated. That exasperat to find out why gamblers chances, that the ball would roll

ing couch ride through the are mugs.

day,

suburbs, sometimes business than the

longer

The flight itself, air- cannot possibly be tolerated.

But the Big Four liner-makers (Vickers,

Avro, Handley-Page and de Havilland)

The first step will be to swop the coach for the helicopter.

us

result for gamblerais discourag-

ing.

into any one hole were as good na the chances it would roll into any other.

finish.

They were mugs from start to

They showed the previous noted preference for long odda and (strangely enough) a parti- cular liking for 4/8 combina- tions (four chances of winning, Ceight chance of losing) and a marked dislike for 8/8 com- binations, Why?

Maybe it's because most of us the reward looks fabulous. Any- how, the surveys allowed that the preference for long odds in- creased as the stakes rose..

The chancos WERE equal Psychologist Ward Ed- should be we shall probably see this with- wards (a Johns Hopkins Jectronically controlled from an don't like to take risks unless

becauso the barriers were man and one of the top adjoining room and the control researchers in the United was set so that the balls would States)

has decided that fall in certain sequences. there's just no hope for

developing models capablo in the next decade. of about 575 miles an hour

But I think the helicopter will at 40,000 feet,

bo short-lived. The whirly-bird is an ungainly form of flight, This is on the fringe of and better ways of taking-of the sound barrier, and to vertically will be developed. 18. push further would be too costly to be worth while A spur to such development will be the shortage of airfield commercially.

1963 to 1973: This will

Botho

l

more

space, Britain is already reach- ing the point where she can pfford to turn over any space to runways.

GOING DOWN

The "subjects'—12 Harvard undergrads were then offered bets on various combinations, of results. The bets were for real money, (though each rooİVEKİ

Furthermore, since most of un One US, experiment enlisted continued after the official ex- trolled by the gods, we think

pay for his effort) and gambling think gambling is a matter con mathematicians, university prosperiment until the professors we SHOULD work on whim. fessora and an' array of brainy

arranged surreptitiously for people who know how to figure each to come out oven. out the odds. Another Jürveyed ordinary citizens.

Both

*No matter how often - ma- thematicians tell us the chances To ensure some kind of cross- that a coin will come up heads

studonta sections, the

wers or fails'nto always ever, we chown from every social claws always think it's about time! fok als after a thousand heads. and income ou

docute In which the faby co

"showed a #roupa solidate

IN the immediate future I ex-marked preference for long odds In the immediate future 1 born and preference for long odds Specde will barely exceed

The experiment went on long OOTNOTE: Who pays the but comfort and reliability will that higher speeds now demand; most of them became just plain enough (several days) for each bill for this research? One of those of the now-type Cometa. To avoid the longer runways with lower than 3 to 1 against,

** Maintorenbed."

of them to "learn?? the best the principal benefactors is the be the AQUE

airfields may be equipped with a

To find out why, Dr Edwards, way of bonding the table,

Nayy. Maybe","mouse "ad». forth of "rubber deck" device

wwente to conti In on a crap Safely! You, but by then it similar to that on an aircraft sot up en experiment of his Bince Harvant students are seld to be brighter than most people, will be a pecdiotionlas palleti carrier...

London Express Service

-Against

skin disease and itching

Mitigal

AGENUINE BAYER PRODUCT. (BAYER)

MANUFACTURED IN LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY

Choose

BOOTH'S

Solo Distributors:

GILMAN & COMPANY LIMITED HONG KONG

Made to order-

for an ill-fated Queen

THE Mari-Antomaten. This experb watch, made by Abraham Lords Bregues for Marie Antobwite, contated all the complications known in the 18th century. Ita more-, ment contained hemt, - quarter and iboto srpenters; independana centro dzieder unili avarp meœnis; perpetual calendar: matnapring power ræsere Indicator; and, Amaily, ametulle thermometer! Every part, where possibis, was nade from solid gold, and shis masterpleci took nearży twenty years to complate.

IN 1783, the great watchmaker Abraham Louis Breguet was commissioned to make the finest watch the world had ever sein, for his Queen, Marie Antoinette,

He worked nearly twenty years to complete this project. But long before he could finish, the beautiful Mario Antionette had met her fate at the guillotine.

Such is the story of this labour of love for a gracious Queen, who was destined never to seo its completion,

Today, conditions demand a more practical approach. While we still demand beauty and

Today's masterpiece – the Rolex Datejust.- Perfresti waterproof, bfallibly self-winding, automatically and clearly showing the fate, the Rolex Datejust serves at 4 reminder that the price of true craftsmanship is still alive and very much in avjdencit, •

·

elegance, we demand also utmost reliability, perfect accuracy, compactness and durability, All these, and many other features, are in- corporated in the Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust.

Here is a graceful gold wrist-watch whose Intricate movernent is perfectly guarded from dust, damp, powder and perspiration by the famous Oyster waterproof case. It is self- wound by means of the exclusive Rolex Perpetual self-winding "rotor," and it shows. the dale automatically in a gold frame, -

Every Rolex Datejust is an Officially, Certified Chronometer, having succesfully passed the stringent tests of a Swiss Govern- ment Testing Station.

In this 20th century, the Rolex Datejust serves as an eloquent reminder that the days of patient craftsmanship and infinite skill are not just a thing of the pist.

ROLEX

A landmark in the history of Time memurament

The Rolex Red Soul is a ífan und by kolen jo show that the watch fe which it is attached luas succesfully passed the tents of an Oficial Government Testing Siation and has been awarded the title of "chronometer," - Every Rolex Partjust curvien with it the. Balen Red Seal..

Just arrived -

1953 GILES ANNUAL-

limited stock now available

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST LTD., HONG KONG & KOWLOON,

Page 5Page 6