1936-04-28 — Page 11

A ROMANCE OF THE AIR

The Making Of A Flying-Boat

A TINY BEGINNING

In a great factory beside the river Medway at Rochester, Kent, a row of huge metal-built flying-boat hulls are now rising on their stocks like the hulls of ships.

In vast sheds men are fashioning the wings which are to lift these new leviathans from the water into the air:

Soon one of these "ships of the air-the first of the 28 new Empire flying-boats which are being built for Imperial Airways-will stand for its aerial trials.

A SPLENDID IMPERIAL

AIRWAYS FLEET

More than 3,000 men are now busy on this great undertaking- the most remarkable of its kind lu the annals of the air. Over 6,000 working drawings are already in use, and others are in preparation as the task proceeds.

THE PROGRESS

From tiny planes carrying one man through the air to huge multimotored air-liners lifting loads reckoned not in pounds but in tons! It is a pageant of nying progress that Short Brothers have It represents a great dream that is now coming true-the creation ed their part.

seen and in which they have play- And now the air of this splendid Imperial Airways stages is being made ready for a fleet which, carrying the flag of new era that will far eclipse any Britain's air marine into the thing that has gone before. By a farthest corners of the globe, will. Government decision all first-class Inaugurate that era in which all! letter mails are to be carried in the Empire's fastest transport is to bulk by Imperial Airways on the wo by way of the air.

main Empire routes. Services will be, operating by night as well as day. Air-liners are to be provided of a size sufficient not only for bulk mali transport, but also for providing luxurious sleeping well as day accommodation for passenger8.

STARTED IN A TINY FACTORY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936.

HOTEL GUESTS THE NORMANDIE

List Of Guests

Staying At Peninsula Hotel

Major and Mrs. L Mr. and Mrs. M. J Abbott Mrs. R. S. family, Mr. and Mrs. Miss Archer

L A. Alston. Abbott, Miss Araneta and T. W. Archer,

Mr. C. A. Bium. Mrs N. N Bum, Mss P. W. Brown, Mr. w. N Brown, Mrs. C. Brooke-Short. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bayot and family, Lieut-Col. J. C. Brewer. Mrs. C. L Bozarth, Mr. Bong Joeni Jhay.

Miss A. Camahort, Mr. and Mrs. H. Catlin Major G. M. Churcher, Major and Mrs. Crewdson, Lieut- Comdr. and Mrs. G. Coba Mr. D W. Callaghan, Mr. and Mrs. N. W Clark, Mrs. G. Cullen,

"World's Largest Ship"

H. K. POLICE

RESERVES

(ORDERS BY THE HON. MR. 1. H. KINO, IG.P.)

Through additional construction

CHINESE COMPANY made aboard the French Line flagship "Normandie" during her

General-On and after May 1, nter lay-up in Havre, her gross 1936 the existing two platoons of tonnage has been increased from the Chinese Company will be amal- 79,280 tons to 82,799,45 tons, ac-gamated and placed under the cording to cabled advices received charge of Sub-Inspector (R) David last night by Henri Morin de Lin-

Lote. clays. resident general manager of the French Line here, from Henri Cangardel, the line's manag- ing director in Parks.

Death-The Hon. Inspector Gen. of Police and Deputy Superinten- dent of Police (Reserve) regret to announce. the death of Constable R72 Wong King Fal on April 14,

The Normandle" thus retains the distinction of

the being "world's largest ship," and is like 1936. length being 1029 feet over-all-recruits of the Chinese Company wise the longest ship afloat her

Training Course (Part I):-All the standard of measurement by which the length of vessels is al- ways determined.

The advices from Paris also an- Major and Mrs. H. A. Davies,

nounced that the gross tonnage of Miss P. Dimond, Captain and Mrs. "Normandie" will reach the record- W. E Duckworth, Mr. W. J. Dy-breaking figure of 83.000 tons by ment. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. V. Hart- the Dav.s, Mr and Mrs. Wm. Derrin.

Captain and Mrs. C. E. Eccles. Mrs. J. A. S Eccles, Mr. F. A. M Eliott, Mr. W. F. Edge

Misa A. C. Friederick, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Fleming, "Mrs. W Field-Hook, Mrs. P. Faustino and family.

Mr. T. M. Gregory, Mr and Mrs.

time current construction abcard is finished and the ship re-enters service with her depar- ture from Havre on May 8th.

STOLE FROM EMPLOYER

Coolie Sentenced

Geare and family, Mr. W. T. Goodwin, Mrs. R. Ganz Major and Mrs E. S. C. Grune, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Gleed, Leut. C. H. George,

Remarking that although the Col. F E. Gowan, Mrs. E. M. Good-great, he stil regarded the offence Mr. and Mrs. L H. Garthwaite, amount of money stolen was not

win.

as serious in view of the position Mr. C. M. Hall, Mr. E. Haussa- Mr. E. Himsworth, the

of trust that the accused enjoyed,

L. Hosie Mrs. H. N. Hartley, Mr.tenced Chan Kau, described as a mann. Mr. T. M. Hazelrigg. Mr E. Kowloon Magistrate yesterday sen- Second

E. R. Heather, Mr T. Huber. Mrhouse coolie, to one month's impri- Mr. C, Hoyer, Mr. S. P. Healey and Mrs. E. P. Ellado and family, sonment on a charge of stealing 35 from his employer. Mr. J. J. Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Crawford- Jones, Major H. A. Joseph AS

Col. and Mrs. E, St, G. Kirke. Miss B. Kirke, Major and Mrs. D.

H W. Kirkby, Mr. Lawrence

Kadoore, Mr. and Mrs, C, M. Kan. ME. and Mrs. H A Lammert. Mrs. J H. Lock, Mr. N. C. Lyne- vitche, Mrs. G. La'O and family, Mrs. R. W. Lajeunesse.

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who have not yet passed Part II. of Training Course will attend at the Chinese Company Headquar- ters on Tuesday. April 28 at 17.30 hours for instruction.

INDIAN COMPANY Training Course (Part I): Mem- bers who are detailed will attend Indian Company Headquarters on Wednesday, April 29 at 17.30 hours for Squad Drill.

Inspection Parade:-All ranks of the Indian Company will parade at Central Police Station on Wednes- day, May 8 at 17.30 hours under Sub-Inspector R. J. Hunt for a general inspection of equipment, etc., by the Company Commander. White Cover, Belt with Brace. Dress: White" Uniform, Cap with. Truncheon, "Pocket Policeman and noté-book to be carried. The

point of being present. Equipment Officer will make a

EMERGENCY UNIT RESERVE

Basio of No. 20 Kent Road. Kow-will take place in the basement of Defendu:-Defendu Instructions

bon Tong.

the Sailors' Home and Seamen's Institute on Friday, May 1, 1938. present at the above mentioned All members are requested to be

place at 1720 hours.

to

Chan was further ordered pay $5 amends or in default, serve a further two weeks in jall. Divisional Inspector W. R. Ches- ter-Woods prosecuting stated that the defendant had been employed

to a house colle for about twelve months at a salary of $9 a month. On Apr 24. Mr. Basto made a re- port at the station that $5 had been stolen from a locked ward- robe.

Dougal, Lieut.-Col. H. L. Murrow, Mr. D. Miler, Mr. K. Mc...

Miss P. Murrow, Mr. and Mrs. C W. N. McGowan, Miss M, Manuk. Enquiries were made. Mr. H. G. McNeary, Col. A accused admiting stealing.

Moncrieff Mr. J. P Murphy. Marsh, Miss E Meadows, Mr. Rically all the money had gone in Eambling, added the prosecuting

While ore watches these huge air hulls taking shape in dure lumin and stainless steel, it seems a far cry to turn one's thoughts back to the year 1909, when three brothers Horace, Eustace, and Oswald Short-were just about to embark on what they reckoned Next year this new page will be would be a 'great, adventure. And turned in Imperial air communi- a great adventure it proved, in aceation. Huge. mall-planes will be tual fact because what one sees be flying day-and-night over thou- to-day in these huge Rochester sands of miles of routes bringing workshops is a direct outcome of India within 3 days of England, an enterprise which was begun reducing a journey to Cape Town under the humblest auspices 27 Lo four days, and enabling nights years ago,

to Australia to be accomplished in 7 days. So it is that a great new Imperial Airways fleet has become It was in a tiny factory at Shell-necessary. beach, on the Isle of Sheppey and activity of the factory where And amid the bustle away back in 1909, that those these monsters of the air are three Short brothers began the

taking shape moves a agure which building of aeroplanes at a time ls well-known to all who see it. It when aeronautics was in its ear-

Is Mr. Oswald Short. His two liest infancy, and men who sought brothers, Horace to leave earth for air were warned

and Eustace, that only fools and birds ever

have not lived to see the day of which they talked in their little took to flying."

factory away back in 1909-the day bulit in fleets like ships of the sea, when big winged ships would be and when all the distant parts of P J. Rafferty, Mrs. Robinson. Mr. Mr. T. Ramsay, Mr. and Mrs. Empire would be brought J. F. Robinson, Captain and Mrs. within a few days' travel by air. E. H. Roeder, Col, H. G. Robertson; But though Horace and Eustace Licut.-Col. and Mrs LC. Reld

were mer.

the

Mr. H. Nitz, Mr. H. W. Nightin-officer.

gale.

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Mr. and Mrs G. B. Ott

Mr. and Mrs. G. Pax," Mr. R. Pax, Mr. and Mrs. Pnet, Mr. A. S Peacock, Mr. J. H. Pennington, Mr. R. Petri, Mr. W G. Pirie, Mr. N. J.-Perrin,

and the Fric-

Mr. Basto appeared in court as" the complainant,

ANOTHER REMAND

Receiving Stolen Property

Those brothers vision. They booked an order for of their first deroplane. They put that machine together in their pioneer works, and it flew well. They were granted a licence to build aeroplanes of the famous are gone, Oswald remains at the Mr. S. O. Rendell, Mr. F. R. Ren- Wright type, and Wilbur and Or- helm to steer their enterprise to dell, Mr. and Mrs R.. O. Redman. further remanded as the Kowloon

ville Wright themselves came down one day to that little factory in the Isle of Sheppey, and pronounc-

these new triumphs.

(Another arilele will appear in

ed themselves well satisfied with to-morrow's Issue).

the constructional methods these brothers were adopting.

Other clients came forward. Soon they wore busy with work for such pioneers British aviation as the Hon, C. S. Rolls, Mr. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Mr. Frank Mc- Clean, and Mr. Cecil Grace..

DOMESTIC TROUBLE

HUSBAND CHARGED WITH WOUNDING WIFE

Appearing on remand, Yuen Mung Sang (23) allas Mah Leung, a re- Fung Tat (41), unemployed were fuse coole, and Fung Kai, allas

Magistracy yesterday by Mr. Q.A.A. Macfadyen. N

The accused stood charged with theft with others not custody of two gold rings, a Pair of earrings, one fountain pen. a compass and $500 in Hong Kong

Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Revilla, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Revilla, Miss Revilla.

Mr. & G. Smith. Dr. and Mrs. A J. Skinn, Miss Skinn, Mrs, and

Miss Stainfield, Major and Mrs. J.

W. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Currency from Chan Lan Heung. Stuijfbergen. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shaw, Major and Mrs. B. Shannon,

Detective Inspector R. Cunning- lihood of a further charge of re- ham stated that there was a like-

Mr. E. Syder, Mrs. R. H Sharp,ceiving a fountain pen being levied Miss M. L, Stokes, Mr. G. Stamp, Miss M. M Smith

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against the first accused, and Mr. J. Thomson, Mr. P. J. Taylor.against the second defendant.

charge of receiving a compass Mrs. A. G. To, Mr and Mrs. A. C. Thomas, Mr. J. A. Thomson.

A week's formal remand waS Mr. and Mrs O Vagnone.

granted. A family squabble which led to Mr. A C. Wilcox, Mrs. and Miss Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. White

FAITH IN FUTURE Their faith in the future of By- ing grew. They began to build seaplanes as well as landplanes. They experimented with machines driven by more than one engine, the wife being an inmate of a And when the Great War came hospital for eight days, led to the these ploneers were able to play appearance on remand of a talfor vital part in the development of before. Mr. E. Himsworth at the British air power, not only with Second Court, Kowloon Magistracy "Heavier-than-air craft, but also yesterday charged with ma icious'

with airships.

wounding of 1 woman, Yueng Chuen. The accused Heung Kang. said that he was unemployed for the past eight months.

Detective Sergeant Elis for the

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Mr. and Mrs. F. C., Young.

TWELVE YEARS FOR SALE OF HEROIN

LOITERER AND AN INSTRUMENT

Fit For Unlawful Purpose

Lo Ming, 36, was charged on two counts at the Central Court yester- day when he appeared before Mr. W. Schofeld. The charges were trespassing on the Royal Naval Armament Depot grounds and (2) with the possession of an instru- ment ft for an unlawful purpose, namely a hack saw blade and a penknite.

The years rolled. on. The war ended with a vast store of data to be embodied in, post-war aircraft. And Mesare. Short Brothers adapt-

Shanghal. Apr. 23. ed themselves to changing condi- prosecution said that the fight Thirteen persons, one, of whom tions. They foresaw, above all, the ook place at Reclamation Street, was a Japanese, were taken into immense future lying before com-

un Ap. 18. Yeung, wife of the custody on Tuesday in House No. mercial aviation. Here their faith accused received a number of2, Lane No. 133, Yuhang Road, on and vision, were again justified. wounds necessitating her removal the charge of conducting heroin British air polley-bent upon de to hospital. The ght had arised smoking and the further charge of veloping Empire air transport-apparently over some domestic smoking heron. Whre the Japan- brought into existence that great trouble. As a result of accused's ese was handed over to his consu- prosecution.

Det.-Sergt. Dowman was for the national

enterprise of Imperial failure to and work, a child by far authorities, the twelve Chinese' Airways; and this led to the plac- marriage had been sent to the were brought before the First gone there to pick up some wood, Defendant stated that he had ing by Imperial Airways, with the complainant's mother, residing in Special District Court yesterday He found the blade and kept it for firm of Short Brothers, of an order Canton.

and charged. Prompt punishment his personal use.. for the Arat fleet of commercial The wounds received by the was meted out to the accused by Mr. Fisher, Laboratory Assistant flying-beats to operate on the woman, were not so serious as at the Judge who sentenced one of of the R. N. A. Depot was the com- Mediterranean sections of the Em-. Orst thought. They were however them, accused of assisting in self-plainant and stated that he had pirs air-lines to India and Africa" consistent with those that might ing heroin, to twelve years impri-neen the defendant in the grounds Traide grew quickly on these bave been fanfcted by a pair of comment under the new nafcotle and that the defendant had ran Empire routes. Soon Imperial Air- scissors found at the scene of the suppression regulationis. Two others away when reen, He was chased ways needed larger and mere besaulty

were sent to gaol for two years and caught luxurious flying-boats for use in Bentence of six months' im- while three each got 18 months. Defendam was sentenced to s the Mediterranean This led to prisonment was imposed, the An to the remaining accused, these one of 15 or one month on the the ordering by the Company of dagistrate remarking that he were found notguity as there first charge, and the one month's the well-known 4-engined short regarded the offence as a serious was insuficient evidence against hard labour on the second, the nying-boats of the "Scipio" type."

them (N.CDN).

sentences to run consecutively.

̈one.

D. L. KING,

DSP, (R).

Hong Kong, April 27.

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