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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1936.

AVIATION

MAINTENANCE OF AIRWAY NOTES AIR AMBULANCE

AERODROMES

Design Of Utmost Importance

It has been said that the future of aviation lies on the ground, and there is certainly no doubt that the design of aerodromes and air ports is a matter of the utmost im- portance for the efficient opera- tion of air services

As far as Great Britain is con- cerned very considerable progress has been made during the last few years in the provision of suitable aerodromes, though previously the country was equipped in this direction, many of the sites being left over from the War and proving quite unsuitable for the air tra yelling public of to-day. The latest examples. however, are s cond to none and bear compart- son with the best work in any country,

IN BRIEF

News Of The Air

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WORK IN CANADA

Nor long ago information wii forthcoming as to the rapidly-in- creasing use of ambulance-planes in Australia, and now data

From All Quarters comes available is to the recent

The Indian Meteorological De- partment are now making experi- ments at Sharjah with pilotless weather balloons which are being sent up at night, the resulting data being communicated to headquar- ters at Agra, 14

Figures made available by the Indian authorities show that 10, 500,000 letters were sent by air from Great Britain to India dur- Ing 1935. This compared with 6.000.000 in 1934, and 4,000,000 in 1933.

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During the most recent twelve- monthly period for which, figures are available, the air-liners of Im- perial Airways dew a total dis- tance of 5,000,000 miles, this com- paring with approximately 3,000.- 000 miles for a previous period of 12 months.

Air-lines in the United States carried 908.185 passengers during 1935. This compared with $46.235 for the year 1933.

Apart altogether from the build- ings and equipment at a modern airport. the preparation and main- tenance of the ground Itself calls for expert knowledge and treat- ment. In the first place the pre- paration o the landing ground Twenty-five electric boundary may entail ploughing and grading | lights are now in operation at the with special machines designed. Jodhpur air-station, being about for the purpose. As an example. 98 yards apart round the perime- there is a Ransomes rotary scraper for taking away the top soll"and transporting it to any required spot, produced by the Ipswier, ärra of agricultural implement makers: the quantity of earth collected can be varied up to about 27cu. ft., and when the required amount is in the bowl, collection automatically

ceases.

Again, an aerodrome can be cf-

ficiently drained without distur-

bing the surface by means of mole drainers, and these machines" can be effectively utilised for burying electric cables up to in diame- ter. The electric light and tele- phone Installations on an лего- drome necessitate many cables, and It is essential for the safety of aircraft that these should, as far as possible, be laid underground.

MAKERS

PROMISE

SILENT CARS

Pledge To Minister To

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Prevent Noise

NEW TASTES IN SPORTS TYPES.

Makers of motor-cars have tol- lowed the example of motor- cycle manufacturers in giving an assurance to the Minister of Transport that they will allow no noisy vehicles to leave their works.

In the Ministry's view. now only remains to ensure that these vebicles, qulet in themselves, are not made offensive by the way they are handled.

Silence of operation has shown a. Ereat advance in recent years, Even sporta cars can now be per- fectly quiet when running on top gear at the legal speed in built-up areas, and the best remain rea- Bonably quiet when driven at their maximum speed.

The taste for machine-gun or

ter of a circle 1,000 yards in diame- ter. leaving a gap for approach 10, the buildings and hangars.

A full aerodrome lighting equip- ment has been installed at Penang air-port. 'This lighting system comprises three Bloodlights, aero- drome boundary-marking lights, obstruction, lights, and an illumii- nated wind "T."

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The cutting of a grass over an ex- tensive area is too obvious a part uf aerodrome maintenance to re- quiré emphasis, except possibly to add that gang mowers, drawn by tractors. enable large areas to be cut in the shorest possible time, a much as 11 acres an hour being within their scope.

NEW FORD CAR MODEL

More Miles To A Gallon

work of "similar machines a Canada, During ว couple of months. just lately, in addition to many fights by doctors to visit patients in remote areas, the cases reported in Canada included:-a flight of nearly 400 miles with an urgent stretcher case; rescuing a sick man whose dietress signals had been observed on the shores of 800 miles to bring in to hospital an a lonely lake; and a flight of nearly

Indian who had a badly poisoned leg

NEW AIR-PORT FOR

NEW YORK ·

That Governor's and should be converted into an alr-port to serve New York is a Jecommendation

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FAST TRAVEL BY FLYING DOCTORS AIR AND SEA OF AUSTRALIA

Four Thousand Miles What Air-Liner

In Five Days

Passengers Saw

Four thousand miles, from New When, not long ago, one of the York to Central Europe, in venir-liners on the England-Aus- days! That was the record achie-tralia route landed at Longreach. ved by the recent test in which the passengers who emerged from a specially-chartered Imperial its saloon saw that one of the am- Airways air-liner met the liner bulance-planes of the Australian "Queen Mary at Cherbourg, and

Aerial Medical Service was drawn up in front of the hangar.

flew, with a party of passengers via

Paris. Zurich, Munich, and Vienna

to Budapest.

his

The dying doctor who was with the ambulance-plane asked the passengers of the air-liner whe- ther they would like to see patient. They said they would and, going to the door of the Aying am- bulance, saw that the patient, ly- ing inside on a stretcher, MLS # little girl aged only about three years. This tiny sufferer had, it appeared, sustained burns in an accident at an outlying station. and the doctor had flown out to treat her and to bring her in by

Further detalls are now available as to this remarkable demonstra tion, which showed in A most convincing fashion how fast and

air luxurious

connections with ocean liners can now be provided to the principal cities of Europe,

"Ay soon 28 the "Queen Mary" reached Cherbourg," the party which were to make the 1,020 miles flight to Budapest were conveyed by motor launch to the air-ambulance to hospital, aerodrome at Querqueville. After entering the waiting air-liner;

which has been made by the Am erican House of Representatives, The island, located just off the lewer end of Manhattan, is at the present time an army station. The proposal is to reclaim about 65 acres of land land is two or three minutes from Manhatten by launch, but there is a scheine for the construction of a trac tunnel from the Battery to Brooklyn which would be made to pass under the north end of Gov- ernor's Island.

the At present the i5-

LAND-SEA-AIR PORT

AT SINGAPORE

With an equipmens which will provide the latest facilities for both land and marine aircraft, the new alr-port at Singapore is well on the way to completion. A seaplane slipway and hangar for the new Empire flying-boat is taking shape rapidly; while steelwork for the terminal buildings has been erect-

The air-liner passengers express- ed their very great" interest at having this opportunity of seeing a practical. demonstration of the wonderful work which is being done in Australla by the Lying doctors.

first section of their light was from Cherbourg to Paris. This stage. 209 miles, was completed in lust over an hour and a quarter, at an average speed of 158 miles- an hour. After being welcomed at the Paris air-port of Le Bourget, the next stage was one of 300 miles to Zurich on a route skirted

na. This proved a fascinating by the Vosges and Black Forest flight, following the wide curves to the North and the Jura Moun- of the Danube with mountain- tains to the South. Zurich was peaks stretching away to the reached at lunch-time, and those | south.

who met the party found it hard It was between Munich and

to believe that, at breakfast-time that same morning, the aerial voyagers had been over 500 miles

on the "Queen Mary" away Cherbourg.

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Next they flew over Lake Cou-, stance along a iine north of the Bavarian Alps to Munich, a dis- tance of 144 miles, which Was ed, and a concrete apron laid. "A | covered in less than an hour. After special system of runways will fa- | more greetings at the splendid cilitate the ascent and descent of Munich air-port, the party were tand machines.

off again in the direction of Vien-

MOTOR

CARS OF 1937

Vienna that the air-limer reached

a speed of over 170 miles-an-hour at a height of 7,000 feet. The Anal 135 miles from Vienna to Buga- pest was covered in exactly an hour-a wonderful view being ob- tained from the air of the roman-. LIC alty of Budapest. This re- markable fight was chronicled the same night by a broadcast from the Budapest wireless station. and by a special commemoration dinner.

JOTTINGS

being

unusually smoothly, while fast in acceleration and maximum speeds. Eighty miles an hour can be had on top, and about 60 and

of, the 25 h.p. salon de ville" is £425 and that of the 14-56 h.. model £295,

At a lunch given recently in the New Wolseleys And 40 on third and second. The price

Wid

B.S.A. Scout

a peculiar de-

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NON-SKID ROADS

How Accident Statistics Could Be Reduced

Dorchester Hote by the Ford Motor Company the completion of a new Ford V8 22-h.p. model was an-

The news that a non-skid 'sur- nounced. Like the previous 22-h.p. car. it has been bullt at Dagenham, designed to meet

Three new Wolseley models are

The Fourteen saloon is due tor face is to be laid in Victoria review here shortly. Here the Street, London, comes as some- surprise. Victoria Bir Malcolm Campbell said that mand. The cars are salons "de capacity of the 6-cylinder engine thing of a

Street has been a death-trap for be had tried the new model or ville of 25 hp. and 14 hp, and a is 1,818 c.c. The quarter lights are a 150-mile drive. He emphasis- sportsman's saloon, In the shinged for draughtless ventilation, the unwary for 35 years, and one ed

The sportsman's four-door aaloon had grown to accept it as one of certain of ita points

k.p. "salon de ville" the BIT has

the inevitable ills-like mumps that

is on the 25 h.p. chassis and costs its engine

been to produce a town carriage 1781b. lighter than

which could be used as a

£425. This third new model is de-and chicken pox-to which desh that

fast of the

Is het. touring saloon.

finitely modern in appearance, be- larger 30-h.p. V 8; that in its un- usually placed "boot" (which was

Good balance in the lines has ing low and graceful, with a length Let us hope that the resurfacing been achieved.

of Victoria Street is evidence of behind the back seat and

The doors are suggestive of speed. It is built to which

high and wide, and the back axle

take four persons comfortably, or the awakening of road authorities was opened by tilting the seat for-

to the

modern traffic. needs of five if necessary, and there is good has a generous track to give an ward) there was room for two oz

almost unbelievable amount adequate seat for three persons. space for luggage. There are four three suitcases; and that the car

doors and the rear ones do not

nonsense has When only

talked and two travel here a could hold six people. Its makers,

broad

written concerning the impossibl- softly padded

spoil the the look. This is a drmrest he said. estimated its maximu

gives lateral support.. The widen- model which should have a widelity of making road surfaces rea- speed at 70-15 m.p.h: downl.ul

ed track allows the springs to be appeal to the motorist who likes sonably nou-skid in wet weather. he had touched 80 m.p.h.

Autocar" set well apart, and this in speed in his car, with a sporting For many The petrol consumption of the old

minimizes any tendency to roll on appearance. model had been 18 to 21 miles to

corners, The front adjustable the gallon; this model would do

seats are devised to give proper 25 to 26, and its mileage per gallon

anatomical support, and there are of oil was 2,500. For this, as for armrests. The seat springs are as-

An of

years "The turn

B.S.A. SCOUT

has challenged this pessimalam. Without claiming an expert know- ledge we do not possess, we have asserted that an admixture some rough substance such for 1937 is concentrated on the 10

́The B.8.A. Scout car programme

of

"pompom" exhaust noises is dying previous Ford models, the system sisted with Dunlopillo overlays, i h.p. model in three different body sand, with the surfacing material

and is now mainly confined to the racing track.

But there are motor noises which still need suppression. They are due to:

Thoughtless or selfish drivers who race their sagines unneces- sarlly in suburban roads before starting:

of engine exchange would be con- tinued. He had found the steer- Ing rather light-1 is a little light- er than that of the earlier models, --but this appealed to many peo ple,

of the

There are footrests for the back styles This car was originally passengers, all six side window brought out as a Nine, and suc- glasses are movable, there are ceeded the BSA. three-wheelers, louvres to give ventilätion in wet having the same main transmis- weather, and a sliding roof is atted.sion features, which are now in- The doors have double safety cat-corporated in the 10 hp. Scout, Mr. A. Hall. the sales manager ches, and the equipment includes This machine has a 4-cylinder company, announced the ashtrays, electric lights in the water-cooled engine of 1.203 c.c. Drivers who climb gradienta price of the car as £210. At pre-quarters, twin tuned hors, dual capacity, and the drive is to the fast in indirect gears at night; sent, he said only a four-door, screen wipers, self-cancelling traf- front wheels, by which means a Ill-used small sports cars make saloon model was being made. A ficators, a telescopic steering propeller shaft to the back axle is ing unnecessary mechanical and model Was shown in the column with an 18in. spring wheel, avoided and additionally low build exhaust noises through lack of hotel. It has B compact body. and, in addition to two headlamps, made possible. Other chasals re- partly streamlined. It has no slid- two pass lights on the front bum- finements include Independent Light vans driven by youthaing sunshine roof. A good feature per cross bar, two parking lights, front wheel springing. for suburban tradespeople; and of its dashboard equipment men-" All but the fastest and most ❘tioned by Sir Malcolm Campbell is up-to-date 'buses.

Its new oil and temperature gauge, The Ministry of Transport had by which a red light appears to threatened to make new regula warn of a sinking in the oll pres- tions enforcing quietness in motor

sure or an excessive increase in vehicles unless manufacturers took the heat of the engine. The total action,

weight of the car is 23cwt.

attention;

would give a guarantee against skiddinga guarantee which would be enduring and not merely valld while the top dressing was new,

We repeat that all read could, at reasonable cost, be rendered kid-proof, and we are confident that by making them so the high- way authorities would be taking a long step towards what we desire-tbe réduction casualties.

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