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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936.

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ALL BRITAIN is fascinated

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BOOK

REVIEWS

WORLD'S BIGGEST ORDER FOR AIRLINER ENGINES

900 H.P. Units In New Empire Flying-Boats

FIFTEEN YEARS

OF BRITISH

ENGINE DEVELOPMENT

London. April 7. 1936. Many hundreds of workpeople are engaged day and night on the execution of the largest single order for aero engines ever placed by an air transport company. For the new Short mono- plane flying-boats which are being built at Rochester for the Empire routes, Imperial Airways needs 116 engines and an ad- ditional 40 engines as "spares" for use when overhauls are in In aggregate output these 156 motors-Bristol Pegasus Xc air-cooled radials-account for more than 150,800 h.p. They will drive the new boats ar a speed in the neighbourhood of 200 miles an hour, ranking them easily, as the fastest commercial

progress.

Dying boats in existence,

in less than twelve months the manufacturing area of the Bristol engine shop has been doubled, and In the midst of military orders on an unprec dented scale the com- pany is dealing calmly with this record commercial contract. Men work a through the twenty-four hours.

The Pegasus Xc engine, repre- sents the most modern thought in

the des' and buliding of puppet- It is the valved nero ngines. latest in a series of nine-cylinder engines of basically similar type. Having the same bore, stroke and swept volume. which have been In constant evolution. "production and use for more than ten years. Thousands of those engines have been used all over the world in I millions of miles of military and commercial flying. Under licence; some of them have been built in

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and technique. Speetfic weight, in spite of the addition of gearing and supercharger. has declined 40 per cent; the Pegasus X motor actually delivers 1-h.p. for a very little more than each pound in weight of its structure... Fuel con sumption has gone down 25 per cent. Maximum crankshaft speeds have climbed from 1,625 to 2.925

revolutions a minute.

1936 POWERPLANT

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haust-gas collector ring is also an Special drives, efficient silencer.

tary flying instruction at a civilian school. In his Arst term at

are embodied for working the Service FTS. he is given more accessories including the super-fying instruction and begins night charger, magnetos. electric gano-flying. He is expected tu absort rator and the fuel and oil pumps; at this period much more know- between them these drives absorb ledge of alt navigation than under h.p.. leaving a maximum of 500 the old scheme. The second period at Service FT.S. continues the hp, to be delivered at the airsgrow hizb

night flying, and takes the student through the difficult technique of formation flying at least as far as flying in flight formation of three. four or five aircraft. A month is spent at an armament camp for Aring practice. Thus the student reaches a much higher standard of efficiency than his predecessors at a stage. so much earlier in his period during the

career that he no longer requires covered by the "expansion" pro-individua; flying instruction when

he is posted to a squadron.

TRAINING BRITAIN'S MILITARY PILOTS

Important changes in the system o: Royal Air Force training will ensure that

next

gramme. progress

pilotage, navigation, air gunnery, bombing and flying discipline will march at a rate equal to the rapid progress In equipment. Within the three years the Service will receive, at a continually accelerating rate, new types of aircraft capable of performances far beyond the scope o the aeroplanes which now form the bulk of its equipment. There will be a general change-over from the biplane to the monoplane, ex- New cept in

Iew classes. methods of pilotage are made in- evitable by the demands of the new and vastly more complicated machinery which is to be placed the military at the disposal of avlator.

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Under the old scheme the In spite u ita Increased power.

student pilot went straight to a the most recent Pegasus engine la

Service Flying Training School, lighter than any previous series.

Ideas are

where he spent the first eleven All kinds of new

The cylinder months of his military career in bodled in its design.

elementary flying ristruction and head and barrel has been re-

the end of that give.. mare eficient at lectures. At designed 10

time the student had done nu and much greater combustion

formation night flying and no effective cooling area. The EX- haust valves are cooled by sodium dying. He had no practical ex- to protect them perience of air gannery or bomb- and "stelllted"

Ing. from the corrosive action" of lead- ed fuel. Provision is made installation

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fewer than sixteen countries, Comparison of the performances and. structural features of the Pegasus Xc and its forerunner

2 controllable- of Afteen years ago provides strik- ing evidence of the immense ad- plich alrscrew. The carburettor Vance of engineering knowledge is improved.

BOOM IN BRITISH

CAR EXPORTSTM

LIGHT CARS POPULAR

More British cars are being sold abroad this year not only through- out the Empire but in many for- A feature eign countries as well.

of the overseas orders is the de- mand for popularly priced light! cars. Sample shipments of the famous nine h.p. Singer "Bantam" have now been received in the

farthest markets and substantial repeat orders for these and other models are being received daily at Coventry from all parts of the

world.

of

THE NEW SCHEME

The new scheme provides for to get his elemen-

A new kind of ex- the student

MOTOR

That

Squadron training under the new scheme begins with a brief intro- ductory period of flying practice to accustom the pilot to the type of aircraft flown by the un't. period over, the pilot goes Imme- the intricacies of diately. on to squadron flying. Not only is much time saved in the training of the military fiver. but at every stage there is a substantial gain in the efficiency and thoroughness' of the instruction.

The new scheme cannot take Its influence full effect this year.

wi be apparent in 1937 and irim

the expansion till crease

pro- March, gramme is completed In 1339.

EMPIRE AIR DAY PLANS

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Nearly Arty Royal Air Force stations will be opened to the public in all parts of Great Britain and at Aldergrove in Northern Ire- land on Saturday: May 23. celebrate Empire Air Day. Jn- this annuai augurated in 1934, event was an instant success."and last year about twice al

JOTTINGS

MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN

MODERN RESEARCH METHODS

London, Apr. 8. to a very marked degree, and due take acknowledgment was made to the to Unless stagnation is

Wells-Southcombe Patent. place it is essential that research shall be continuous, and in this connection the British motor in- dustry is certainly well provided for.

A. COMPLETE ORGANISATION

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"LE MANS' RACERS READY FOR THE

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ATLANTIC AIR

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SERVICE TO BEGIN SOON

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London, April 23. When the Queen Mary makes her maiden voyage across the Atlantic next month it is probable that the experimental flights in prepara- tion for a Transatlantic air mail service will also be under way, as the series of conferences between civil aviation experts of the British, United States, Canadian, and Irish Free State Governments have now produced 8 working agreement whereby British and American 'planes will complete the last link in a chain of air transport round the world The two routes will be from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Cobb, in the Irish Free State, with A second and longer one using the Azores and Bermuda, and the drst test fights will probably be carried out on the northern route. When the service is established auxiliary machines will be stationed at the. respective bases to make connection with the inland airways of Britain' and America.

visitors as in

the 1934, entered

to gates-shut

them on every other day of the twelve months- of Air Force aerodromes.

Since Empire Air Day last year more than a dozen new squadrons of the Royal Air Force have been formed and additional squadrons are rapidly coming into being to make up the 129 squadrons of the expanded Metropolitan Air Force. Pilots and airmen undergoing training at the Service schools ex- ceed ten thousand; their instruè- tion has involved the organization of large numbers of courses of in- struction in flying and "ground" subjects.

EASTER DRIVING

FAULTS

London April 22.“

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The was little evidence of bad driving on the roads at Easter, so the A.A. observers' say, but three points were noticeable. One was the folly on holiday road of at- tempting to pull out of a queue in order to pass slowmoving traffe, an attempt which nearly always end- ed in the driver's having to treat hastily. Another, particular- ly conspicuous from the air, was the amount of road space that was wasted because drives would not keep close to the near side The third was akin to this-the amount of driving space which a To the aerial This years the cars are being pedal-cyclist needs. raced by 'Autosports," the Bir- observers it appeared that the mingham firm which Starley Bar-cyclist needs for safety nearly as nes and his brother Donald are running on the lines of a motor- racing stable.

During a recent visit to Coventry I called at the Singer factory and was privileged to see the final pre- parations and tuning of the famous green Singer nine Le Mans this replica models, which again year will be competing in a num- ber of international motor racing events.

London's latest service station on Western has been opened Avenue by Shaw & Kilburn Ltd, for Vauxhall cars, for which they dent) are sole London distributors. Its

up-to-date as to be well worth organisation and equipment' are so

careful study.

The new laboratories of the Re- New Zealand is one of the most search Department of the Institu- interesting overseas markets at the tion of Automobile Engineers have present time to all British motor recently been opened on the Great manufacturers. Here Singer's 1938 West Road near London, where models have impressed motorists some extremely interesting work is so much that export figures for taking place. At the present time, the year show an increase of no for instance, brake squeak is being less than three hundred per cent. investigated and the noise can act- over those of last year. Only last ually be "seen" by means of a car To give some idea week forty vehicles were shipped hode ray; tube.

which ob- in one vessel, and further ship- of the accuracy with ments are booked to follow at re-jects are measured in the labora-

torles, there is, for example, apartament. ğular intervals.

pneumatic gauge which reads to less than one-hundred thousandth part of an inch.

South Africa is another country where British cars are rapidly gain- ing in popularity, and there Ein- ger sales for the year show an in- crease of over twenty per cent. com- pared with this time last year, In the Straits Settlements Singer's have recently completed new dis- tribution arrangements and as result export figures are increasing. IN PALESTINE

For measuring' cylinder weat there is a gauge which can be read to less than one-ten-thousandth part of an inch..

CORROSION AND CYLINDER WEAR

During the past few years Pales-

It will be remembered that some tine has been a difficult market for

18 months ago, the Research and the British manufacturer to cap-

Standardisation Committee of the ture mainly on account of the pre- dominance of cars of American LA.E. published the conclusion of make, but reports from the local their researches on cylinder wear. distributor there show that the which established that on the aver "Bantam" is particularly well sult-

ed to the country's clunatic and road conditions, and orders have been received. for. large immediate shipments to be made. Also, in spite of the political tension in the Near East shipments to Egypt are being maintained,

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Here his wants are

Under

I was told' (writes a correspon- that. although the ma- the same engines chines have

year, certain alterations have been carried out and they as last

will be equally as fast f not

faster than last year.

Norman Black, T.H. Wisdom and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Eccles, as well as the Barnes brothers, are among the experts who will drive the ears in such races as the Le Mans 24 hour race, the French Grand Prix and the RAC. TT... to name some of the events for which they have

much space as a car, which makes the folly of riding three abreast all the more obvious.

The distribution of Easter trafe this year WAS rather curious. Though in the aggregate it was almost as large as usual in spite of the weather, it was spread out over зл unusally long period. Trafic on the Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday was, marked- On arrival with his car an owner

ly lighter than it generally is at drives down a ramp at the side of

Easter. On the Thursday before the building to the reception de-

Good. Friday, however. it was abnormally heavy, and a special A.A. census showed that the traffic taken and the necessary instrue- tions are then dispatched to the department concerned by means of

coming into London on the follow- ing Tuesday morning was much Lamson pneumatic tubes. the shop foreman all mechanical

heavier than on the Monday night. and heavier even than the return- repairs are dealt with by the group

ing tratte on an ordinary system. There are alx groups of 15

summer Sunday evening. cars each with 10 fitters to each

holiday-makers must have stayed group, the "group itself being self- contained as regards equipment. For les. So promising are the prospects on as long as possible in the hope the owners comfortable waiting in Switzerland this year that Mr. of a little warm weather at the E. F. Boult, the company's export last moment before they went rooms are provided.

back to work. manager at Coventry, had to make There is, of course, an engine, special representations to the Swiss tester, brake tester, degreasing Government for permission to im- plant and other equipment. In port more vehicles than wax-origin- the spray shop the air is changed ally stipulated under the import thirty times an hour. Time saving licence restrictions which operate and "efficiency are the keynotes of 'there. this very complete organisation.

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been entered

Another country in which the age a large percentage of such

British cars generally are also "Bantam" is proving a favourite is wear is solely due to corrosion by becoming more popular in Europe. the Irish Free State where this mo- condensed products of combustion. At the Geneva Show last month del is now being assembled by for Switzerland Messrs. P. J. Tracey,. Ltd., of Dab- In the course of this research the the distributor

lin Bales of Binger models are se- Institution found that the "Germ" staged a special display of the off film, which is known to resist "Bantam" and the new 5-7 cwt.veral hundred per cent, higher to- dislodgment by abrasion, affords light van, as the result of which day than they were a few years protection from wear by corrosion he is being inundated with enquirago,

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He's just a ragged urchin

That's how he looks to me His vest all mussed and ruffled. -But cute as he can be. He never has an enemy. All kindred spirits his, And he never is too busy

To attend to someone's biz

Now please do not misunderstand

Or think I'm in a fog, This isn't 'bout a person, It's just our little dog.

BY THE

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