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COL. LINDBERGH ON AIR PERIL

'DEFENSIVE WAR

ENDED"

Berlin. Ju's 23. An appeal for Intelligence rather than forts" as a basis of security was made to-day by Col. Lindbergh at a lunch given in his honour by the Aero Club of Berlin.

"Aviation" said Col. Lindbergh. "bas abolished defensive, warfare. It is no longer possible to protect our families with an army.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1936.

AVIATION

MRS. MOLLISON ON WOMEN

"MY CANDID OPINION"

London, July 18. "I admit that I am not a femi- nist," said Mrs. Amy Mollison in her presidential address at the annual dinner of the Women's Engineering Society at Shefield last night.

"Women never have been up to any good. and my candid opinion of the species in general, obtained from a course in history at Shef- amfeld University, is that they have with created little and destroyed much.

"As I travel in Europe more than ever impressed the seriousness of the situation which confronts us. We must look for a new type of security. It must be dynamic, not static. "It requires more intellect operate an aeroplane than to dig

to

It is the great destroyers who go down in history and the Dellans and the Dubarrys who immediately spring to my mind as examples.

"My opinion of women engineers is even worse. I do not know of one who will, even if she knows

NEW AUTOGIRO

Vertical Take-Off With 50 H.P.

SINGLE SEATER TO COST £500

A SMALL AUTOGIRÓ, HAVING. ONLY TWO ROTOR BLA-

LANDING" DES AND USING A 30 h.p. ENGINE HAS BEEN

CLUMPS AND TAKING OFF AMONG THE

OF GORSE ON HOUNSLOW HEATH DURING THE PAST WEEK.

This sort of country has been chosen for its exploits as conclusive proof that any clear space big enough for a landing is also big enough for this little aeroplane to take off again. ·

It is reported as capable of lifting wertically at the take-off" to a suficient height to clear immediate obstacles, whereas the earlier type of Autogiro needed a take-off run and climbed at an acute angle, so that it was occasionally unable to get out of confined spaces into which it had descended without difficulty.

a trench or fire a rifle,

The new model not only em, the take-on. The rotors, driven

gears from creating a great how put right the plumbing or bodies the device for vertical take- by sponsibility in

the engine, are force of destruction may be re- the gramophone while her husband off which Señor de la Cierva desnecelerated on the ground to ieved by "knowing that

sits back in his chair and smokescribed last year, but it submits to rate of 350 revolutions a minute. we have moved power further away from his pipe." ignorance."

Our re

Col Lingbergh visited the Ger- man Alr Ministry this morning. and was received, in the absence of Gen. Goering at Bayreuth, by Gen. Mich Chief of Staff.

He is accompanied by his wife,

-His little son. Jon Morrow Lind- bergh, has been left in England in charge of a nurse.

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AIR LIAISON WITH THE ARMY

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the lifting angle by the simple process of pressing a button. The rate of rotation at flying speed is 210 revolutions a minute:

the

LORD WILLINGDON'S TROPHY FOR AIRMEN

Simia, July 17. A challenge trophy has been presented by Lord Willingdon, the former Viceroy, to the Aero Club of India, and "Burma, for the most meritorious flying performance out in during each year carried

an of the world by any part Indian national or any person trained in India and holding current Indian licence. The win- ner must have been resident in this country for six months during the calendar year for which the award is made.

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The first award will be made on but December 31. of this year. future presentations will be made in May for the performance of the Winners previous calendar year,

will hold the trophy for one year.

100TH ATLANTIC CROSSING

BY AIR FRANCE

the public in a form which may and, at the moment of take-off. are declutched from the engine Referring to women's chance in make the Autogiro avaliable to a the future of aviation, Mrs. Molil-much large number of people. and simultaneously allowed to take son said that every field was open This machine has been developed up to the right woman as it was to the by Messrs. G. and Weir. Glas-

The trouble, was that

a new right man.

atted with KOW.

engine which has

London July 28. there were so few of the right four-cylinder women. Women were just awak been designed for it. Its rotors The quality of automatic ad-

The 100th light in a westerly have a diameter of 28th and 15 is justment which is claimed for the direction and the 99th fight on ening to their possibilities.

capable of a forward speed of 80 new rotor mechanism has

the easterly run across the South miles an hour. It carries petrol additional advantage of preserving

Atlantic

by Ar were completed It is a two-for a flight of 24 hours' duration a contant rotor speed in the air.

France on Tuesday.." These mail army Halsen work. seat, high-wing. craft powered and it will probably be sold at £500: whether the forward speed of the

Latécoère four-engined flying boats. with a Mercury radial engine and It is a single-seater using a nor- aeroplane is fast or slow. This lights were made by two of the between fitted with Handley Page automamat aeroplane fuselage with flat makes lift much less dependent on The westerly crossing tic wing slots and flaps to give the sides, Its tail unit consists of a forward speed and allows the al-Dakar and Port Natal was made slow landing speed and ability totallplane and three vertical fins. most vertical descent. which is of

in just under 20 hours and the ascend from small fields whien are Control is exercised by tilting the great value in

casterly crossing in 16hr. 18min. One torpedo-spotter-reconnais-

This has always been valuablé All letters carried on the 100th sance biplane the Blackburn essential in an army cooperation rotor standard.

NEW ROTOR DEVICE

attribute of the Autogiro, and the The plot has excellent Shark, of which large numbers are aeroplane.

The secret of the vertical take-

addition to it of the power to takeight bear a special cancellation Air outlook. He sits in an enclosed ca- being supplied to the Fleet

lies in in front of the leading off

the way in which of vertically suggests the arrival date-stamp to commemorate the Arm, an Avro Anson general re- bin Just connaissance monoplane and the edge of the wings; the root is the rotors are hinged and in the of an aeroplane which, even in event A new lasue of two official large arrangement of those hinges, so the hands of trained amateurs, i postage stamps was also made by new Westland army cooperation transparent and there are

minations being 1,50f. and 10r monoplane made up the comple- windows at the sides. Both the that the blades, as they pass over may be free of the conventional the French Post Once, the deno-

respectively. tennis ment of miltary aeroplanes en pilot's and the observer's compart-those parts of the circle in which aerodrome and my literally be

to operate from a gaged in the flying programme. ments are heated and can be they develop no lift, may diminishable The Westland machine is the pro-quickly and easily opened, giving their "drag. It depends also on court or field of similar dimen-

a device for keeping the blades at stora duct of a company which has built the crew a degree of comfort and

The undercarriage in this mode hundreds of aeroplanes for "ge-space equal to that found in a good a non-lifting angle during the

period of their acceleration before i stands out from the sides of the nerál purpose service flying and civil aeroplane.

MOTOR

JOTTINGS

MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN

A Trade Ambassador

WHEN WORK IS DONE

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forced landings,

ALCOHOL'S EFFECT ON THE ཧཱུྃ -"! TIRED CAR

DRIVER

PROFESSOR WANTS MORE RESEARCH

More and more of the large manufacturing concerns are laying out sports grounds and building clubhauses Lor their employees,

Bir Joseph Barcroft, Professor of realising the value of healthy our-physiology at Cambridge Univer door recreation. The new Firestone clubhouse, in addition to its dress-sity to-day appealed to doctors for į alcohol the tired motorcar tors, road rollers and agricultural ing rooms and lounges, is to pos- more research into the effects of

sess a cinema projector room for driver. machinery of all types: they are already being åtted in private cars. I showing "tulkles."

He was speaking to delegates to

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Aftes a tour of nearly six months took him round duration, which the world, Mr. W. E. Rootes recent

and it is safe to assume that be- At Ipswich the employees 0: ly returned to England with a bet- ter knowledge than ever of local fore long they will appear in lead-Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, well the British Medical Association trade conditions in the many ing manufacturers normal pro- known in the trolley bur and agri-Conference at Oxford who where But the latest develop cultural implement world have the guests at breakfast of the. Na- places he visited. He made his grammes.

ment is in connection with the become the proud possessors of a tional Temperance League. tour as Vice-President of the Sa-

mechanical horse. It is understood ane sports parilion, the

gift of

Bir Joseph, who was a member ciety of Motor Manufacturers and

doubt that very shortly a Perkins Diesel- their chairman, Alderman E. C. of the committee appointed by the Traders, and there is no

Scammell mechanical Ransome, to commemorate the 50 B.MA. to study the relation of al- that his reports on present condi-engined tions in the Overseas markets will horse of the 6-tan type will be years of his connection with the cohol to road accidents said that prove extremely valuable, as will available for test purposes in con- firm and the 50 years his father the committee found that even in also the personal contacts he has parison with a petrol-engined vehi had been a member. A particular-moderate- quantities alcohol had a cle of the same type, and the re-ly happy collaboration made the definitely adverse effect, though had the good fortune to make.

new building possible, showing the taxen some hours before driving. It will be remembered that asults should prove instructive

As indicating the Increasing fine spirit existing between the in- "I think," he added, "that it will previous world tour made by Mr. Rootes in 1927 led to very satis-popularity of the Scammell me- dividual workpeople and the man- be conceded by all thinking people chanical horse abroad, it is signi- agement; for, while Mr. Ransome that the statement is true but what factory developments in connection with the export of British cars to cant that the latest folder des- provided all the materials for the is the effect of alcohol on the tired

the members of the man? certain parts of the Embire. cribing this type of vehicle and the structure,

various kinds of trailer used with Athletic Club found the necessary it is printed in German and labour-ng small task in the case French, in addition to Engilsh," of a building containing a dance hall, changing and bath roGMS, billiards room, kitchen etc, and one representing all the spare time or many of the employees.

PROMINENT DESIGNER

Recently, elected as a full Mem- ber of the Institution of Mechani cal Engineers, Mt. E. G. Grinham Chier engineer of the Standard 360- tor Co., has a number of outstand- ing automobile designs to his credit. Before his present appointment, which he was held for over 5 years he was with the Humber-Hillman Commer group, where he worked in collaboration with Capt. J. P. Black, now, of course, Standard's managing director.

Over 28,000 cars from the Canley factory, by the way, have been de- I'vered already this season.

ANOTHER DIESEL DEVELOPMENT

lmiş'' Diesel engines are nowadays in general use in lorries, buses, trace

A MOBILE SHOW

ROOM

Mobile showrooms are not now, but an outstanding feature of the

THE TWO LONDONS

"One member of the committee took the view that alcohol might be regarded as beneficial to the tired man and in the general run of practice one finds a great many doctors who take that view.

fuselage to give a wide track, and is rather like the end of a bed- stead with telescopic legs.

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LINVISIBLE RAY

TO TRAP THE

SPEEDING CAR

There's news for motorists about speed, lights and those electric horns.

Trickiest is the one about speed. It is going to cause füttering the hearts of the young man in the fast sports car

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It's a hidden policeman. He gets the speed at which you are tra-

his being mistaken. velling and there's no chance of

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He is, if fact, an invisible ray. And Mr. Hore-Belisha ta al- ready very keenly interested in

He was, in fact, "trapped" by the ray (which is the invention of Mr. G. C. Scrimgeour, clerk of Che- shire County Council), when he opened the

Shotwick-Frodsham road yesterday. He was jocularly told he was exceeding the limit sed that his speed was forty miles an hour.

Two invisible ray apparatus are put up, one at each limit of a measured distance. The ray is intown across the road; the car breaks each in turn as it rassen. The time taken in the two breaks gives the speed.

age person and not to the tired man. It would seem to me well to go into this matter more thorough- "Bat the fact ta I believe that we

by." do not know. The amount of re- search that is being done has only been done in relation to the aver.

A FOURTH "R*** Bir Joseph said he trembled to think of the number of people who, were knocked down and hurt on

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vehicle employed by the General

London, Ontario, is following the Electric Co. England, is that every article displayet in it actually lead of Londen, England, in trans- works. Cookers, washers, and all port matters. The capital of the fore being put into service the the roads, and yet the remarkable sorts of lamps, are but some of the Empire is steadily replacing its first "Ranger" representing the fact was not how many accidents huge feet of petrol buses wth introduction of Diesel traction to there were but how few there were, articles it contains, and they ac rive their power from a 3-kilowatt AE.C.-built Diesel vehicles and, the puble, was greeted by mem- This was a tribute to the amount generator coupled to the engine within a few years, will have over bers of the City Council and of-of care and skill shown by the dri- and supplying a controlled output 4.000 all-engined single and dou- ficials, who rode in it over its pro=

Sir Ewen Maclean, a former pre of 230 volts to a central control and ble-deckers in daily service lected routeland, kwtchboard D

The Canadian London, in its ou zealand, by the way a sident of the EMA, at an The present venicle is a Leyland turn, has just put into commission company has just been formed to there be, on the average, any doubt: Tiger, and the interior also con- its first two oil-engined AEC control the interests of John I at all that the absorption or al- tains a well equipped once com "Rangers, operated by the London Thornycroft & Co. Mr. C.. A. Burcohol does develop a lack of Der municating by a silding door with Street Ballway Co. The bodies are geas formerly representative of the spective in reading, writing did the actual showroom nearly 17ft locally bullt and are designed to company in the Dominion, has arithmetic, and, 111 may add a

Koúri "R, read sense?” accommodate 25 passengers. Be been appointed general manager. lon

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