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THE AIR

Ivor Walker, 31, of London Colney, has worked at de Havillands since he was 14. exerpi for RAF service. Ife ban engine Otter and is here seen at work in the engine bay of a nearly finished Comet II

Sam Haslett, wing forward of the lerts Coanly Rugby XV, looks after the inspection records of the Comets. Here he is checking details of A Comet undercarriage.

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«BY, WILLIAMÉ China Moring

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CHINA MAIL

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MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1954.

IS THEIR

Industries that Build Britain's Future

by

JAMES STUART

CHRISTOPHER WARD, 17, Aircraft technician of the future.

Herbert Holzste, here 'work- ing on a vital rib of a Comet II's wing, was once a cabinet maker. "A man who is skilled ta wood. cân do any job." sald one of the men in obarge of Comel assemblji

Radio Hongkong

Hour

The de Havilland organisation, which started in a wooden hut 34 years ago, now employs 30,000 people. On that same airfield recently they built in secret, the world's most advanced jet airliner -the Comet':11}'

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FUTURE

Australia, Now Canada and South

In factories years ago (two years before Zealand,

Africa,

Amy Johnson flow her little. The plant near Chester turns D.H. Moth from England to out one aeroplane every two Australia), the de Havilland hours. Aircraft Company started its own technical school for apprentices.

This step has paid off hand somely. It has produced many of the Arm's technicians and skilled workers; mony of the carlier students helped de Havil- land's to become the world pioneers of the jet airliner.

Some went right to the top.

30 pilots

Mr R. E. Bishop was a D.H. >pprentice before the tech school" was started. When he inished his training he went into the drawing office.

He is now (and has been for many years) chief designer and a director the man who de signed the Comet, the HeroR And the Dove, the Vampire fighter and the famous wartime Mosquito.

Chief test pilot John Cunning- ham, head of a flying staf of nearly 30 pilots was a student before becoming a junior test pliot shortly before the war.

Another "old boy" Is Mr Guy Gardiner.

n director and chlet engineer of the D.H. Propeller Co. So is Mr Roy Sisson, liaison representative of British

A Hatfield, Comets re the only aeroplanes produced. But all the experimental design and research work is done there.

The new Comet II's, which will carry inore passengers farther and faster than the existing Comet 1's, are rapidly taking shape. Some are already

and being test flown,

BOAC should soon be getting first

deliveries.

In secret the first Comet III, an even more advanced airliner, has been built.

Another "hush-hush" item in the D., progranine is the new Gyron jet engine, now

being tested. This is one of the most powerful in the world, and is intended for future faster-than- sound nighters. It may also be used in yet-to-be-designed air- liners.

Working on Comet wing rib construction, 1 found Mr Herbert 44 years Holgate, of Hatfield.

id, and now in his 17th year

at the factory.

Originally, he was a cabinet- maker. He told me: "When I first came we Were making wooden acropianes."

Making Comets is a man's

Overseas Airways in the Hal- jub, but looking after the fles

field works where the newest

Come: airliners are now leaving Mis the assembly lines.

MES In the Comet assembly shop is Edith Haycock, of St.

25-year-old Albans,

red-head the boys in the D. and "keep fi" fan. Her fiance, col College at Astwick Fred Easterbrook-"We're get- Mamor-Hatfield, and the apprenting married in about a

ices, in the various D.H. factories numbe: about 2,000.

The school takes boys of

year's

time"-ls in the flight test de- partment He helps to get the

public school education or from Comets ready for their air tests.

clementary schools to become technicians or skilled workers.

If an elementary school

can

Props, too

Keeping the Inspection

Squadron-Leader Northly

AFC,

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same en

chances as the boys whose cords of each Comet 18 29-year- old Sam Haslett, of Potters Bar parents pay for their training.

from Principal is

Limavady. R. W. Reeve

DFC.

Ireland. Sam is

of the Hertford- Royal Flying Corps pilot of the wing-forward 1914-18 war who became a do shire country rugby football Havilland flying instructor side who meet Gloucestershire narly 80

30 years ago.

in the quarter-Binals on Thurs- Sometimes

there arc girl day. students there are two in the

The jet age is firmly estab- present course. Nineteen-year rhed, but de Havilland's have old Janet Ayres, of St. Albans,

is setting out to be a licensed by no means finished with pro- aircraft maintenance

Twelve-thousand D.H. pellers. engineer propellers er? now in use Anne Chamney, 22, of Bescons-

aircraft designer.

-Manor, both will do

there

and

testeld,

held, Bucks, wants ta be plenty more are being made,

"Prop"

and design, Like the 200 boys Astwick overhaul is done at

and in the overhaul shop Mr year Charles Roberts, of Neasden, was at work on the pitch-change assembly of the 10ft. diameter propeller of an four-bladed

He has Ambassador airliner, been at 10 years, and

the Hatfield works for

arki four years' going through the works.

de

"I have always wanted to go in for aircraft designing," Anne told me. "I haven't yet signed any aeroplanes, not even theoretical ones.

You have to also but prope "ches nothing

know all about the engineering problems involved first.”

But one work now being done

Said Janet: "I have always hus no relation to "props." It by the D.H. Propeller company

loved engineering."

Learning

is secret, and concerns guided missiles.

or not

Becoming efficient at design- nical school we passed a model Footnote-Leaving the tech- drawing after only six weeks is 17-year-old Christopher Ward, pig farm Belleve it of Buckden,

they are de Havilland pigs. Huntingdonshire. "We form quite a bit of the He came to the "tech, school". cou after Christmas from Hunting country around the airfield,"

said

"The farmars my, gulde. don Grammar School. He is say the noise of the jets is good keenly interested in his spare

for hens; it produces, more eggs, time in flying model gliders. His own, with à Брат of 5% feet, he built himself.

In the middle of the Hattok works is an old wooden hút, the original office of the 'de Havilland Aircraft Company when it

It was begun nearly 34 years ago.

Geoffrey de Havilland, Frank #fearle, Charles Walker, Wilfred Nixon, Francia St. Barbe and several others had all been

6. Time Signal and Programme employees of the Airco concern,. Summary: $103, Children He which bullt the 1914-18wr

by Bally' Ann presented Studio) Udo, Cantonese by Radic aeroplanes designed by, side Laston at. "Prepared by . K. Lee Havilland. In 1920 Airoo came Assisted by Donja Bay, and Let ADAM Waar Recorded); 0,15, "Hox 200 to an end-for want of work Start Gillett at the Orgen - (08);~ Geoffrey de Havilland gather- Quy Lombardo and his novel-cars-ed his friends together (Hearle diana; 2.50 Viewpoint Weekly had helped him to build his- Magazine Programme devoted to Literature and drama. Edited and first seroplane in 1900) and Induced by Donald Brook started on his own. Books: Reviewed by Timothy Fireh

Future Indefinite" by Noel Coward The worldwide D.H. entéri

art. nd Entertainment by prise was born at Stag Wil:bn My First Nover" A Talk by Hendon--with-1 less than £3,000 Norman Colline: 789, Western Bg- portazime Signal and World in the bank.

News London, Belavi: 6430, -News Today, Sir Geoffrey de Havil- Tale (London Relay) os Special, An- land, now 71, is-silik, techniesl» » rouncements: 8.1), Iunds across the director and a designer. Mr Keys-Charlle Kunt: 1.30, | Clamps - Kitapsodies. Vietor: Your Heario, 87, is the chairman, and Singing, Stringy kamer Sans|Me Walker the chief engineer The First Men in the Moors—A Seri

in Newrive parts by Landes Blavering at 76. Mr Nixon, 81, la manag From the novel by HG. Warraing director: Mr St. Barber

(Studio)

Factories

In the propeller overhaul shop Mr. Charles Roberts works on

the "prop" of an Ambasador airliner. The blades ́aré protected

1

by plastic bags, "

SHEAFFER'S

Fineline

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TRACTABLE BALLPOINT PEN

This is where one of the Comet's four engines goes. Inside is Peter Mills, of Bt. Albans.

Twenty-five-year-old. Miss Edith Haycook is the progress clerk who looks after the files in the Comet, assembly shop. She is collecting details from · Mr› Harry Borridge. Next year "Miss

... Haycock is to marry a man in the flight jext seedion.”

From Our Filan

100 Years Ago

“Lynch Law'

A case of Lynch Law oc- curred at Whampoa on Sun day last, the particulars of which, as furnished to us, are as follows:

Three of the Manilamen belonging to the Peruvian ship: Amelia,- (late Amity,) went on board drunk and riotous, refusing to obey the Captain's orders, who there- upon-his mato being on shore-ordered them to be put Manliamen in irons. The

resisted, and In the scuffie which ensued, the Captain was, it is feared, mortally wounded. The throe men "cacuped" on shore," where they tried to conceal themselves in a paddy-feld, but having been traced, a party composed of Foreigners and Chinese at- In tempted to secure them. doing so, one American (Grey, who had his skull cleft) and two Chinese were killed, as was likewise one of the Manilames.

The other two were captured, taken on board the Amella, and "after a consultation" by whom we have not heard-run up to the yard-arm.

It wolud appear that application for assistance to capture the run-aways was in the first instance made to Commodore Ringgold and to Mr. Cook, the US. Marshal; but it lay within the pro- vince of neither to interfere In a matter with which their countrymen had no concern, and they consequently, and very properly, returned a negative to the request. This, by the way, may-afford a hiat to the Attorney General: of Hongkong in future to attend to his own legitimate business, and leave the official of the United States to act as their own · Judge, Criminal Pro- secutor,' and 'Hangman."

A Notification dated 13th July, in the North-China Herald, informs us that,

"Mr Vice-Consul Wade having applied for. leave to resign the Vice-Consulship of Shanghai, in order that he may be enabled to accept the office of Interpreter of Chinese Customs In this Port, His Excellency Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipo- tentiary;. &c., &c, has seen fit to accept his ' resignation, and to appoint Mr. Horatio Nelson Lay, to discharge provisionally the Duties of Vice Consul, · until tho pleasure of Her Majesty shall be 'known."

NA MERE LAD

The appointment of such n mere lad to the onerous "office of Vice-Consul, sufficiently displays the dearth of com- in our petent members diplomatic star in China, Mr Lay is, we understand, a fair Chinese scholar, but, it is to be feared, with scarcely sufficient experience for, such Rresponsible situation. How- ever, the wisest heads aro not always borns on the oldest shoulders witness the successful mazmernent of Mr Harry Parkes at Canton.

No addition intelligence has been received from Japan. R

The Commodore, it is, now understood, will not arrive in Hongkong for some time. He han despatched numerous party to

-will, be found.

thrown