1958-10-03 — Page 4

The Perfect

EXTRA For Your Baby

THE CHINA. MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1958.

Two men and a tremendous

deal

by BASIL CARDEW

THE INSIDE NEWS

ON HOW BRITAIN'S BIGGEST MOTOR

COMBINE IS STAKING MILLIONS. ON THE STYLE-SENSE OF ONE BRAIN

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MANUFACTURIO IN LAVIRKUSCH, GERMANY

SIR

"I said: 'I want your styling

to be standard for all B.M.C, in

IR LEONARD LORD sat at his desk in his

office at Longbridge, Birmingham, and told future, and I want your services me: "Triday, September 19. Remember the exclusively in Britain. No other date. It is the day the British Motor Corporation employ you." was reborn."

British manufacturér

may

Will you take on

the job?

today you see the Brst Penin "He took it on that day, and Farina styling on the Austin A40. You like it? I think the

world will like it too."

cor

the

The British Motor Corporation, fourth largest car empire in the world, capitalised to £105 million,

✪ THE MAN on the right, with Sir Leonard Lord of British Motors, is sixtylsh Penin Farina, the man employing 63,700 people, producing 501,689 vehicles a

who gave the sweeping lines to Italy's Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, and Lancia cars. Farina has been designing year, fusion of the great Austin-Nuffield combines nearly

cars since he was 20. Now, at Turla, he has one of the most modern body factories in Europe. seven years ago (November 1951).... yet reborn now. Sir Leonard Lord told mc

to £850,000. Throw in the rest that since that day there have of the car's make-up

George Harriman told me:- employment to the people, to I bellove it will have tremen- Dues this make Resine? Sir

Signing ยก the world's been meetings between B.M.C. cost is astronomical.

and the "This rebirth of B.MC, really the factories and the cities." dous repercussions among tho Leonard Lord, its chairman greatest car stylist, Penin experts and Farina men twice a

It Is un ambitious plan and e means beginning u vast new

iness produced foreign and now

chief architect of Farina, of Turin. Farina month, allemnately in Birming

bravo one. And Sir Leonard builders our dangerous rivals the plan, explains:......

The Gentus of Line"-war ham and in Turin.

But in Sir Leonard's plan to enterprise--an enterprise that Lord has courage to disclose who thought "Even at

they had pate enormous fees by the this

produce (a) the world's most must Our new car,

bring abundant added the A40, is Amerelans to style their cars. Leonard, "our men are in Turin vastly boosted output,

to the public at this early stage, edge on British products. moment,"

Sir elegantly linee with (b) our Arst child in the new set- Farina's shapes stand out in in consultation."

every country in the world,

Now Farina will style B.M.C ears, exclusively almost half the models you will

Britain,

see on the roads in a few years.

Boosting

up.

in

he and his brilliant younger deputy, George Harriman, are satisfied that the units B.M.C. already produce will match the new slyng.

Then Britain's biggest car producer made a

pronounce the ment that leaves no doubt that birth pangs of the reborn eurporation-unid its ambitious

I estimate, for instance, that and far-reaching new plan- will go on

than tur probably twa. more

£20,000.000 have years. B

extra

ROUND-UP

There a far more to it than that. We are about to break from traditional car design. We intend to produce, at a later dale, unconventional, fully engineered ears (distinct from

B.M.C. produc- the bubbles)

who Z for people

Jun (ot expansian cost, envy those Continental

been well spent in the last five NELSON'S VISIT shapes 1 estimate, of £9,000,000 without having the

years in developing the year, for last year, this year He said: "It takes thai .M.C. engines powering the Buy them,

and mony years to come).

period to produce a model for models which range from the A Library to commemorate the bl-centenary

and the public after Furing has Austin the present high total of 12,000 Farina is working on plans for Austin Healey.

output frit completed its styling. Today Wolseley, Riley, M.G., and cars, trucks and tractors a week at least three or four different

Incans to

"But don't panie. It may take

p to two penes to complete the

plan.

The genius

"We shall continue with British engineering, married to Continentul-11 12- international- good looks.

"Although, it was nearly seven years ago tint the B.M.C. was first formert on paper," he said, "these years between were the get-together period.

"At last we are a single un!), completely integrated, ready, in fact, to project the plan that will reach out to markets here. and throughout the world."

The Sir Leonard Lord plan embodies these Iwo major developments: --

Raising 11.M.C.

to about 18,000 weekly-more Chan

cars of ours. He is a mag- A quarter. Increase on present figures. Say more than acent craftsman, 600,000 annually.

The call

Sir Leonur Lord explained:

then.

Morris

three

ไป the

The courage

"But then come the problems When his of big production.

So the plan will have the new begins. cara job is done our task

Improved, with

but

N exhibition ut Birmingham Reference

of the birth of Nelson will include accounts of the Admiral's fitur-known, visit to Birmingham in September, 1802. At the time, he was on extended leave, awaiting ship and was staying at Merton Place In Surrey. Birmingham was one of several towns he visited in a triumphal tour of England and Wales. He attended a per- formance at the Theatre Royal of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," produced at his special re-

We have to nuke things work, existing, B.M.C. units-engine. quest, and a facsimile of the programme will

chossls, gearbox, and transmis-be in the exhibition. sion, aircody in mass produc-

by BULL-FIGHTING ion at the 10 factories ran B. M. C. in Birmingham, Coventry, Cowley, and hi two POBIN Crichton, 18, of Bournemouth, Hamp- industrial centres of Wales.

shire, was holidaying in France with a triond when his debut in the bull ring occurred, With their supply of francs running perilously low, the two young men attended a village fete at which the main attraction was a bull fight in

"We have to ensure that the "I invited Penin Farina to styling can be incorporated in here at Longbridge the car at the price and in the meet me

turns the final two yours ago. The plan started volume that

product into an economic and busincs propositian,"

What does this involve? It is the fact thut the major features of a cor are Ave-fold features body, chassis, engine, gearbox, and transmission.

"Farina answered my call at once. He brought his son Serg.o from Turin with him.

I put a plain question to the malt I thought could make our cars the most modern in style

in the world. He gave me an instant reply.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

These factories produce not only the engines and other key of the cars, but radiators to carburetters, axles to body, panels,

The new plan will bring more

Tooling up for the holy along of a new model costs £750,000 jobs.

People Were Hanged

SEWING mailbags, solitary confinement or even

a few strokes of the birch are mild punish- ments compared with those given to wrong-doers less than two centuries ago.

The general opinion in those executions took place in London days seemed to be that all alone, and only 72 of the criminal were beyond hope of cibininals bad committed murder. redemption and must be exter

For

Cutting Down Trees

Nagging wives were paraded in chains

Floggings were given after a - aminnied. To reh the mall, with Evon nagging wives had to be soldier's arms and legs and

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Women Drowned

careful until little without

been stretched

wooden violence, was a

Other offenders had capital fence. Death was also hundred years ago, it she was triangle. the punishment for hunting, convicted

"sold", her to stand for hours on the point

stump, with one arm wounding, stealing, or destroying tongue was silenced by a nasty of fallow deer,

stretched to its fullest extent, for ling or locking instrument called wounding cattle, and even for rank or scold's bridle. It con- causing the death of fista in sisted of an iron cage placed on ponds,

the victim's head.

Wurse still were the Jaws In front was a plate of iron, whlen brought the hangman's sharpened

with covered rupe for "cutting down or other spikes, which pressed into the destroying any trees tongue and made uny attempt at planted for pront, ornament or speech very painful Followed shelter in any garden, avenue, by a jeering crowd, the scold or orchard."

was led through the streets by Sheep stealing. forgery, an official at the end of a chato, muggling. coining and

Often she ended up shop-litting were punishable by pillory or whipping post. death. From 1740 to 1771, 670

Wise

even

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"More good news, General issimo-three squadrons of Thunderfets, four rocket batteries, three aircraft carriers, two H-bombs and Lady Violet Bonham Carter,"

or

#1

Ducking Stool

-

the

A plaque preserved in the parish church at Walton, Surrey, dated 1832, bears the couplet:

"Chester presents Walton with a bridle

The phrase "running the gauntlet is also a relic of those

times. A soldier had to run bo- tween two lanes of his comrades, who beat him on the way. A man with a pike prevented him from running too fast.

Innocent men often had to suffer for others. When a whole regiment was in disgrace, certain number of soldiers- chosen by dice cast on a drum- were punished.

the village arena. After a comedy show, in which clowns mocked bull fight with small bull, spectators were invited to enter the bull ring and try their luck. Into the arena charged a ferocious and very large bull. Between its eyes was fastened a cockade which the amateur toreadors had to try and remove. The bull singled out Robin Crichton. During the charge Itobin grabbed the animal's horns and hung on for dear life. His 11 stone eventually tired the bull and he was able to seize the cockade. In triumph the two friends were driven in an open car behind a band to the town hall, where the mayor presented them with the 4,000 francs prize.

ROSES FOR RAILWAYMEN BRITISH Raliways staff should wear roses th

their button-holes, says Mr J. Baker, a work study assistant at Paddington, He has written to the British Railways Magazine re- calling that in his youth train guards often wore roses. Recently, he says, a Western Region guard who broke the water

NO! NOT WITH

THAT LOT

WHY DONT YOU

SHOW YOUR

HAND?

1

LOOK AT

But in 2000 B.C., a code of lows issued by the King of exacted much fairer Babylon punishments than in 60-called civilised times. One law said i To curb women's tongues that "it a man stole a watering from talk too idle"

womon.

machine from the meadow, he shall give Ave shekels of silver

Mr Chester is said to have lost to the owner of the watering the Inheritance of on estate machine." But Women were through scandal-mongering dealt with more harshly, parti- cularly those who had been uneconomical in running their There was also an iron music homes. They were thrown into bridlo for woman who peeped a river. and pried. Even older thon

the bridle was the ducking stool. Perhaps the strangest form of Gossips were fastened securely punishment was once imposed to the chair and ducked three in Hollant and Sweden. Fri- times or more in pond ur river. soners were deprived of salt.

It was just as well there were So necessary is salt to humans; no women in the Army in the and animals that in Sweden old days. Military punishnets criminals were oliowed to wero very harah. One was abstain from salt for a month as enlled the "whirligig”, a circular an alternative to capital punish- Į wooden cage which turned on a ment. But it usually came to the pivot. The culprit was put in- same thing the end, as mont side and whirled round until he of them died before the month became sick from gidin.007. bad passed.

THOSE DEUCES

CAREFUL

NOW!

container for his rose but-

HE MIGHT

HAVE S ACES

FUTURE

FASTA

tonhole was presented with a new one by a passenger. Be adds: "I believe there is a lesson far all of us in this. The public like to see a smartly dressed railway staff. "They know that a man with a rosebud in his button-hole takes pride in his appearance, and they are pretty sure that he takes a pride in his railway, too."

NEW LIFE

ONE of the last seven Thames spritsall barges

stafont is now moored in Poole, Dorset, harbour. The Ethel Ada makes a pleturesque Bight with her tall mast and furled tan sails. Bought from a chomles! company by Mr. M. Robinson, of Kidderminster, she was sailed to Poole from Maldon, Essex, For years she plied up and down the Thames, and until recently she carried cargoes of high explosives in the Thames Estuary. Mr Robinson, who hopes to convert the Ethel Ads, says her days as a Thames sprit- sail barge are numbered.

CADDIES MISJUDGED

WHEN Lord Merton of Henrylon, 70, a Lord Justice of Appeal, played himself in as Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews, by driving the first bull in the Medal Meeting he upset the calculations of many caddies waiting to retrieve the ball for the traditional reward of a gold sovereign. Many poskloned themselves in anticipation of a alice or a puit but Lord Morton hli straight and high. Only four caddies were in the im- mediate vicinity for the scramble. The ball woR teed up for Lord Morton by Willie Auchterlonie, the Club professional, who is 80 and won the Open Championship in 1893. BIGGEST STAG

DEE

EER stalking has been going on in the Great Glen forests of Perthshire. The Duke of Atholl, hunting alone on the Atholl estates, stalked and kiled a 22-stone royal slag. This Is the biggest slag to be killed in this area within living memory.

WEAKNESS OF DEMOCRACY IN BLUFF POKER

LOW

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