FINS AIN'T WHAT
THEY USED TO BE
America turns
its back on
the flashy car
by DON IDDON
Thas come off fee the THE billion-dollır gamble.
giant American motor-car companies.
Three years ago they decided reluctantly to invest a minimum of £500,000,000 | in the "compact" and are getting their money back with fat interest.
And today I can reveal the figures prove it. Twenty- six p.c. of the automobiles sold this year in the United States were compacts of varying sizes,
And although the unveiling of the 1901 cars is not due for another few weeks four months before 1961 actually merives-I can give you a pre- view of them.
There will be at least ten American-made compset - type cars to choose from in the show- room by late summer.
Sales saar
George Rocoway, the ebullient president of American Motors, who helped to start it all with his Rambler, bells me condently "By 1983 corpusct will have 75 p.c. of the auto market here."
Eighty-one and a half million Americans own motor-cars and the sales of new care average 6,000,000 a year. ' Romney and other prophete see Americaus buying || 10,000,000 new cars ง year.
Four of the new 1961 com- pacta are the Dodge Lancer, the Pontiac Tempest, the Buick Special and the Oldsmobile F 85.
All these cars were designed three years ago all American Cars are designed three years before their introduction lô tha public-when no manufacturer except Romney was sure about! the compact.
The restilt is compromise and paradox. Ironically the new compacts will be slightly larder then this year'a compacts and as big as a British full-size cur,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1960.
JACKY'S DIARYJKY Mendelso
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Mouth
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also be carefull not to.
UNLESS YOUR a COMPANY by a GROAN PERSON! Lopsters, cause they
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The playboy airmen
WE wore big brass A's on the lapels of our tunics,
and no amount of official pressure would per- suade us to remove them.
The Regulars insisted that the a Bleriot, with which he had A's stood for "Amateur Air offered himself to the Royal men," or even for "Argue and Naval Air Service in 1914, Answer back."In fact they stood for Auxiliary Air Force,
Without the squadrons of the Auxiliary Air Force, the Battle of Britain could probably not have been won. For cut of the 42 operational squadrons avail- able to Dowding early in July 1940, 12 were Auxillary units.
We were lawyers and farmers, stockbrokera and journalists: we were landowners and artisans, serious-minded accountants and unrepentant playboys,
Dominating
We had one thing in common: we all had a passion for flying and we vers all utterly deter mined that anything the Regu tara could do we could do better.
the
The Auxiliary spirit had been born in White's Club in 'twenties. It was fathered by a large and florid aristocrat-Lord Edward Grosvenor, seventh son of the first Duke of Westmins- ỉ ter.
At the time when Trenchard conceived the idea of an Auxili- ary Air Force, Lord Edward was In the habit of presiding, when
He had Bown throughout the war, and in time of peace his voice had been raised loudly and persistently in demand of a Territorial air force.
Wow Thats
Some BURN!
Don't Play with EMPTY Soda Bottles, cause some body COULD Step on it with their BEAR FEET, of You'll LOSE YOUR Deposit
reach
SCRAMBLE!
of dress and discipline being
referred to by the
Auxillaries as "coloured troops"
casually fouted. They learned And so it was that when the to their awed amazement, that first Auxillary squadrons were regular officers at Hendon were formed in October 1925, Lord upenly Edward raised and commanded the celebrated 601 County of London Squadron. He recruited his pilots in part from his oki wartime comrades, in part from his friends at White's.
Simultaneously No. 600 City of London Squadron was formed.
Thus, in an atmosphere com- bining outrageous light-hearted- neas with an underlying deter- mination to excel at operational flying, was born and developed the "auxiliary spirit."
These two London squadrons Stuffy minded
shared the flying field at Hen- don, a few miles north of Mar- ble Arch.
Light-hearted
Inevitably, as new auxiliary squadrons were raised in various parts of the country during the thirties they looked to Hendon for their tradition,
a
And they saw at Hendon group of enthusiasts, well laced with young men of great wealth, giving every moment of their squadrons,
in London, over the big table in spare time to the
the back dining room at White's, many of them affecting an
regulars as a bunch of million- aire playboys now showed their spirit and their skill in beille.
Between the beginning of July and September 7, 601 Squadron shot down 81 German airplanes and damaged many more.
Led first by Max Aitken, who was decorated by Dowding with the D.F.C. on Tangmere airfield on June 29, then by Eddie Ward, twin brother of the pre- sent Secretary of State for Air, Archibald and finally by Sir Hope, they played a glorious part in every phase of the fight.
Their
Own
losses
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The story of the greatest battle of the War.
fragments of glass and Cleaver was Instantly and totally bind ed.
Groping his way out of the
PS. otherwize The Beach is Very HEALTHY FOR YOU, ESPEShullY The Sea AiR.So if You go there, MAKE
•Sure & breathe?
YOUR FRIEND
glory
By HUGH
7-10
DUNDAS, D.S.O., D.F.C.
first airman who had ever won a VC,
Jacky
ALL QUINS WENT TO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS
New York.
was Willie Rhodes-Moorhouse SENOR Franco Dili- gay and mercurial son of the genti, wealthy Ar- gentine industrialist and father of the world's only living quintuplets has re- yealed details of their
Rhodes-Moorhouse had been,
cockpit of his falling airplane, perhaps, the most delightful and he baled out at 15,000 feet, popular of all the gay spirits in waiting in his private darkness 601. He was almost the last of for the unseen ground to come the old, White's gang. His "secret" upbringing on up and hit him. He recovered was a terrible blow, from this shattering ordeal and now lives in Paris, his sight par- tially restored.
Distinguished
the occasion of their cele- The next day, at last, the Ex-brating their 17th birth- hausted renmants of the squad- ron were taken out of the line, day recently at BuenOS
Aires.
Sad day
On August 16 Tangmere air-
In other squadrons of Fighter were field was fiercely attacked. Billy grievous, On August 11, when Fiske, a well-loved American Command the Auxiliary spirit the squadron claimed 12 Ger- who had joined the squadron in was manifesting itself in battle
His policy, he said, had been "naximum secrecy and mini- mum togetherness."
After the three girls and two to Senora Diligenti, they 500-
When the Battle of Britain started, many Auxiliary pilots had already been killed, cap tured or wounded. By the be ginning of July there were not, man
Vallots airplanes destroyed, they peace time and had greatly dis- to no less an extent. But it was boys were born on average, more than eight or lost four
including tinguished himself in battle, not only in the air that the pilots, nine
Auxiliary pilots left in Richard Demetriadi youngest was caught by the German Auxiliaries distinguished them-ceeded in preventing the news member of the squadron, who bombery is he was landing. His selves in the Battle of Britain, becoming generally known untit each squadron.
had not been fully trained when Hurricane crashed and Fiske It is a remarkable fact that at the quins were eight months old...
that time the senior controller the war started, but who had was terribly injured.
at every sector operations room in 11 Group ber one *Wis pleaded so earnestly to stay with the squadron, and who was sQ popular with the other officers,
Auxiliary officer. that he was surreptitiously awarded his wings and allowed bo stay.
On
And so about 120 auxillary officers went into the Battle Twenty-seven of them-nearly one la four-were killed be tween July 10 and the end of September.
Next day he died-one of the rst Americans to give his life in action in Eliler's war.
An
Many more were shot down and seriously wounded, But they approach to their training which scored more than their share of Cleaver, a young man of great planes were shot down,' with Grosvenor in the twenties paid The big table dominated the was so light-bearted as to appear victories for Britain, room, Lord Edward dominated almost frivolous, yet achieving a standard of efficiency in the the table, And his conversation
During the first eight years of their lives, the Diligenti children were given every opportunity to develop their individual per-
Individual lives
"Amateur Airmen" we maysonalities. But in spite of the On August 31, the battered have been-but the gay, almost services of five separate nurses, 001
that the Squadron shot down six arrogant but intensely enthusi- the parents realised Germans and damaged many astic spirit planted and nurtured quins were becoming "as one August 15, "Mouse"
more. Eut five of their own air in the force by Lard Edward Dyebologically.
wealth and one of the best one pilot killed.
off in 1940, skiers ever produced by Britain, On September 8 the balance exploded against the bullet-proof don. Three Messerschmitts were windscreen of his Hurricane. destroyed, And 601 lost four than the Auxiliary Air Force. It They saw the sacred cows of
planes. the RAF being laughed at and
The inside of the windscreen, ··
Two pilots baled out. Two ridiculed They saw conventions regarded by some stuffy-minded shattered into thousands of tiny were killed. One of the dead
In all the history of Britain
more often than not, was of fiy- air which surpassed many regu- Fighter Command excelled, in was hit by a cannon shell which at last went against the squad there never was a finer company
The problem of parking in congested
editors and the economy of running a compacting That was his passion; that lar squadrons. car have turned the American had been his joy in life. customer away from the giants.
Easy lines
How will this affect the zale of Europe umall cacz bere, particularly the British? Adversely. It is rather an omi- nou sign that I can at the moment get no detailed figures from British manufacturers.
But it's obvious that we and. the French and the Swedes and, to a lesser extent, the Germans are in for the fight of our lives to garner the dollars in intensely competitive market.
en
We must retain the distinc- tive British style and stamp on our cars and keep them truly compact.
Already British, line, stay on the eye, tree of gdy chrome trith, have been widely copied by the Americans.
What happens to the forcus tall fins in all this? For some reason the dn has been de nounced by the sociologiets me a symbol of American materialism. even decadence.
It has been condemned from one end of the entry to the other as making the United States look cheep and vulgar, " Bathboyant and flippant in a grey, crisis-ridden world.
Next year the in will be modified, but not because of rampant self-criticism and self- examination.
and
has beast
takenya
doomed
He had been one of the first Englishmen to own an airplane
men
No unit in the whole of 1940, the Oghting record of London's No. 601 Squadron.
The
who had
been
DEADBEA
Just let that web-footed windbag brother of yours call me a
a
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was ü sad, bad day for the country when the force was dis- banded in 1938.
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Tu solve this growing problem, he sent the children five different English boarding schools in Argentina when they were eight years old: From that point on up to today, the quize have zeen each other only periodically, "Of course we took vacations to gether and had special family parties," said Senora Vallota Diligenti, "but most of the time the children lived individual lives."
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