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MRS. MARKHAM'S RETURN

No More Atlantic Flights

Mrs. :: Beryl Markham, the first woman to accomplish a solo 1ght of the Atlantic from East to West, was given a civic reception re- cently on land.ng at Southampton from the Queen Mary.

She declared Lint she would never again attempt a flight across the Atlantie. One such crossing alone was enough.

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AVIATION

NIGHT FLYING ON

EMPIRE ROUTES

Plans For Service

In 1938

AERODROME

EXTENSIONS

AT KARACHI

As it exists at present the aero- drome at Karachi has an area of 900 square yrds; but when the ex- tension work now a hand is com- pleted, the aerodrome will be pro- vided with a runway of 1,500 yards The dimensions of the new hanger are 388 feet by 101 feet, with clear span of 100 feet. From his room in the new control office the aerodrome officer will be able to an unobstructed view command on

over the entire aerodrome.

INDIA IN 34 DAYS

It is understood reliable, authority that the Government of India. Imperial Airways, and the arc examining British Treasury

BAHREIN

"Several dimes during my night” she said; the engine of the plane stopped as each tank in turn was drained of its petrol, and at those moments my heart seemed to stop. plans to give a tremendous impetus PEARLS BY AIR FROM too, while I turned on the rocks to to aviation on all Empire-air routes

the near in

future, writes thu bring into use the next Each time, however, although the "Morning Fots" special correspon- engine was quite dry, it picked up again instantly and gave me д

Details of the whole scheme are still confident.al. and will not be tremendous sense of security,

"When I landed I was down to announced for some months, but it the last few drops of petrol, and can be forecast that by the begin- I was lucky to be able to bring the ring of 1938 aight flying will be in machine down in a soft bog... augurated on all the principal air

"Everybody In America gave me routes of the Empire.

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a most wonderful time: a welcome. In India night flying will become which was sincere and touching, a regular feature of the service. When my plane has been brought Except during the monsoon clima- hack from America some time next tic conditions do not present in-" month I intend to fly to Johannes-surmountable obstacles. burg to see the British Empire Ex- hibition there, but I don't intend it to be in any

record- way a breaking flight. I shall go by easy stages.

TREES AS AIR BEACONS

Scheme To Commemorate Coronation

The planting of groups of native trees on high land throughout the country to act as beacons for air, pilots is a suggestion put forward te commemorate the Coronation.

The trees, nine in number, would be planted in the shape of a shield, with the point presenting itself to the prevailing wind, The choice of species would depend upon soil and situation, but wherever possible an oak, and preferably three oaks, would be included in the centre of the group.

Armistice Day is said to be an ideal time for tree planting, and al- ready a number of sites have been chosen and arrangements made for planting on November 11, 1937. Mr. R. St. Barbe Baker, founder

When plans have been made in detail the aviation authorities here will assist Imperial Airways to and erect beacons, searchlights. wireless apparatus on both the main and the two feader air routes

Regular consignments of valuable pearls are consigned by air from Bahrein, the Persian Gulf port on the Imperial Airways England- Indis route. to groups of pearl merchants in Bombay. The pearls which come by air are bleached. sorted, and disposed of by the Bornbay merchants either locally or in foreign countries.

The pearl merchants of Bombay have, from the earliest days of the England-India air route, taken ad- vantage of this rapid means of transport to get their pearls from Bahrein. The speed of the air ser- vice enables the merchants to sell their pearls early, and to take quick advantage of the opportunt

in India. Everything will be doneties.offered by market changes and to make night flying as safe as conditions. possible.

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LIBRARIES IN

It is estimated that night flying will reduce the time of the journey between England India to three and a half days.

It is expected that by the next Budget session of the Central Legislature the Government of India will be in a position to an- nounce their plans for the appro- val of the Indian Legislature.

AIR LINERS

| SEVENTEEN

YEARS OF

AIR TRAVEL

What Eighteenth

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AERODROME

PROGRESS

IN MALAYA

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Plans for the provision of main and subsidiary aerodromes Malaya are being pushed ahead with rapidly. At Kuala Lumpur the present landing-ground is to be enlarged considerably. A new

Year Will Bring landing-ground at Part Swetten-

The other evening officials at the Londen air-port. Croydon. were celebrating the completion of 17 years of regular commercial air transport between London and the Continent.

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It was on 25th August, 1910, that world's first dully air express be- British enterprise established the

tween London and Paris, and a few facts and figures will indicate the remarkable progress which air travel has made in the years be- tween 1019 and 1938.

For a time, in 1915: Paris was the only continental city that you could Ay to from London. To-day air passengers can book from London to more than 200 towns and cities on the continent. In 1919 the total mileage of the world's air routes was only 3.000. To-day the figure stands at over 200.000, and 19 in- creasing rapidly.

ham is nearing completion, al- though many diziculties have had to be overcome owing to the Hat, swampy nature of the ground. A now landing-ground is to be 'con- structed at Malacca.

services from England to Egypt, India, Africa, Malaya, China, and Australlà.

COMMERCIAL HISTORY As for the eighteenth year of British air travel, this promises to be the most important in the whole ploneer commercial history of the air. We are now on the eve of preliminary fights on the At- which will be a pre- lantie route lude to a regular service connecting" England with the air-mail systems of Canada and the United States, and at the same time preparations are being completed for the great new Empire air scheme which will come into operation next year, and by which first-class mails in bulk are to be air-borne from England along the main Empire routes without any form of aerial sur- charge. It is for this great scheme that Imperial" Airways have under construction a fleet of 28 flying-.. boats and 12 land-planes. Equip- ped with sleeping accommodation h.p. air-liners for passengers, and flying by night as well as day, these new air-liners fully-loaded ap-

The first commercial aircraft one pilot and two pas- carried sengers.

Paris To-day on the route, air-liners carry a crew of four and 39 passengers. The first commercial air-loads were reckon ed in pounds. To-day they are reckoned in tons. while the tiny single-engined 360 h.p. 'planes of early days have been followed by 4-engined 2,000 weighing when

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tons.

News is just to hand that in the "Flying Clipper," the trans-Pacific airliner of Pan American Airways,

The volume of air traffic in anti books are being air-borne for lonely inhabitants in the Wake and Mid- | out of London has grown from two The British Treasury have con-way Islands. Not long ago 25 books or three machines a day to more were flown to Wake Island When than sixty; while the air speeds of they have been read there they will be flown on to Midway. And after this they will be taken back by air to Honolulu and a fresh batch sent r out.

sented to give generous assistance. so that Imperial Airways may be in a position to execute their plans for the development of Empire flying as speedt'y as possible.

of "The Men of the Trees," stated scheme had recently that the been put forward by the branches of his Association, and already con- siderable support had been promis- ed by landowners and local au- thorities.

In this connection it may be mentioned that carefully-chosen assortments of books, in the form of a "fying library" for the bene- fit of passengers, are carried in the big flying boats which make the above-water trips to and fro across the Mediterranes on the Empire routes of Imperial Airways.

MOTOR JOTTINGS

A.A. AND "CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOTORISTS”-

Police Methods Criticised

Criticism of what it calls the "intens.ve und widespread cam- paign at present being conducted against motorlats for various offences having little or no rela-

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MOTORIST BANNED

FOR LIFE

A Walsingham merchant, Walter Wright, who was found guilty of dangerous driving, was disquall filed from driving for life by Faken- ham (Norfolk) magistrates re- cently. He was also fined £25 and ordered to pay £8 98. 6d. costs.

MORRIS MOTORS

Considerable interest has been aroused by the news that the

public is to be given an oppor tunity to acquire, for the first t me stake in the equity of Morris Motors, Ltd.

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about 80 miles-30-hour, attained by pioneer passeliger-planes, have increased on the main express routes to just on 200 miles-an-

hour.

hour-will enable remarkable time- savings to be effected in Empire airway time-schedules.

At present Calentta is 6 days from London by air. Under the new scheme it will be brought within 4 days of London A fight from London to Singapore, under present schedules, takes 84 days. Under the new Empire programme it will be accomplished in 51 days. An air journey from London to Sydney (Australia) takes 12 days' at present. By the accelerated service it will be reduced to 8 days; and such figures do not by any ultimate air means represent transit times. Schedules will be Im- speeded-up progressively, as provements are effected in ground organisation, until they are shor- tened probably by a day or a day

The air routes of Imperial Air- ways, which had a mileage of only about 1:700 when the Company started in 1924, have grown year by year until the air-iners of Im- perial Airways and of its associated enterprises are now flying over 28,- oon miles of routes. The system of Empire airways, which started with a Cairo-Basra Hnk of Just over 1,000 miles in 1927, now provides and a half:

FIRST CAR

CALLED AN

INFERNAL

DISRAELI'S NEPHEW

DIES

His Last Male Relative

Major Coningsby Ralph Disraeli,

MACHINE nephew of the late Earl of Bea-

"In the town of Morez, in the Paul Jacquemain, spectacle maker, Jura, 18 an alert man of 79, M.,

who as a schoolboy constructed the Negotiations now proceeding are

Arst motorcar to run on a road. ilkely to be successfully con-

This was in 1874. cluded, and it is understood that

For several years young Jac- Lord Nuffield will shortly sell to

quemain had dreamed of his ma- City interests 500,000 of his Or-chine. An engine-driver of Lons- dinary shares,

le-Saulnier gave him some techni by, Mrs. M. Hopkinson, of Grange- The total capital Morris Motors, cal advice and an aunt gave him road, Cambridge, whose nephew,Ltd., is £5.260,000 of which £3. the money, states the "Evening Edmund Worsley, aged 14. of 000,000 is in publicly held Pre-standard." Cottenham Park-road Wimbledon. terence shares The balance of

He bought a boiler at Chalon- a passenger, was killed,

£2.269,000 Ordinary shares is held aur-Saone, and a local wheel- by Lord Nutfeld.

wright made him a chassis, four MORE THAN £2,000,000 -

feet long. with wheels bound with Last year profits of Morris Iron. The steam boiler drove a

tion to public safety," is contained The case was a sequel to a col- ision at Little Snoring cross reads a statement issued by the Automobile Association. recently between his car and one driven writes the "Morning Post" motor- ing correspondent.

After emphasising that the A.A. advocates that those convicted of offences with a material serious bearing on road accidents should

be subject to drastic punishment.

consfield, and last of the male re- latives of the great statesman, died in a Hove nursing hoine on Sept. 29.

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He was 69. "Major Disraeli had an opera- tion a month ago. He went to Hove to recuperate but developed pneumonia and grew steadily. weaker..

Mrs. Disraeli was at his side when he died.

A FORMER M.P.

A member of his household at Hughenden Manor, Great Missen- den Bucks, told the "Evening Standard":

"Major Diardell served many years ago in the Royal 'Bucks Hussars. During the war he was connected, with the R.AF., and

"He had been in had health for some years."«

the statement declares that many TRAFFIC EXPERIMENT Motors, Ltd., were equivalent to piston which worked an axle, to worked for them in England. thousands of law-abiding persona

are

being brought before the Courts when a warning on the spot would have sufficed,

"The arb.trary enforcement 01 the law in cases of technical ob- struction and the so-called 'drives'

CAUSES HOLD-UP

A traffic hold-up at Victoria re- cently was due to an experiment carried out by the Ministry of Transport, the Westminster · City for traffic light and pedestrian- ¦ Council, and the traffic authori- crossing offences, whilst producing | ties at Scotland Yard.. enormous numbers of convictions,

41.3 per

cent, on the Ordinary which was fixed a chain transmit- caplial and the d.vidend was 15 ting the power to the back wheela, per cent tax free.

It is probable, therefore, that a deal in 500,000 shares will involve well over £2,000,000,

On a fine night in September, young Jacquemain with several adventurous spirits of his own age, set out to try. his invention,

They set the "car" to climb a hill to Morbler, a stin two-mile

rike

It is contdently thought in market circles that nothing will occur to upset the present" nego- The experiment involved the di- tiations, and the shares will un- make little or no contribution to version of trame by starting a one-doubtedly achieve a rapid popula public safety. The majority of way street on the

west Ride of rity. there cases arize through sheer Grosvenor-gardens. It was first Inadvertence and in circumstances

tried on Sunday, and Scotland i Yard traffic experts received the Impression that it could be carried peak hours it was found that it led top of the Hill, and Paul: Jacque out successfully during normal to considerable congestion. hours.

"where there is not the slightest inconvenience to

danger others."*

Recently, however, when the ar- tested during the rangement was

Objection is taken to the way in which the police enforce the 30 m.ph. speed limit. It is said that the traps are laid over open stretches of road Instead of ronds which are built up" in the proper sense of the term, and that the a safe character that their de- traps are often on slight downward restriction is under consideration gradients and along roads of such by the authorities.

SHATTERED "DREAMS "The boller," said M. Jacquemäin. "whistled and spat sparks and made such a racket, that everyone along the road woke up." -

Bot the machine reached the

main went to sleep to dream of

on account of its appearance and the noise it made, was notlung short of a publle danger.

"I was given the choice of break- ing it up or going to a reforma- tory school.

With a heavy heart. I went back, home and demolished" my beloved machine, said good-bye to

dreams and try

became the laughing-stock of the town,"

Nevertheless, nothing daunted, the inventor of the first steam- The early morning traffic inter- | glory.

driven car went on with his in- fered considerably with the ideas The next morning he was called ventions. It was he who evolved the first safety glass. He also of the three bodies, and at 10 to the Mairie

de o'clock, when various places had

"My heart swelled with pride," constructed the first driving mir become Jammed in this busy cen- He said, recounting the scene. "Lror, in 1996. tre, it was decided to revert to the expected congratulations. S In 1914, although he was 54. 12. usual conditions, and to suspend "But what a shock! The Ma Paul Jacquemala inalsted on fold-"

ing up went right through the the scheme for further considera-yor accused me of having invented tion.

an infernal machine which, both war and was wounded.

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