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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1936.

AVIATION

BRITISH AIR

TRANSPORT RECORD

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An Imperkai Airways liner has se up a new British air transport record by covering 2070 miles in a single day. The air-liner, the the *Danut, is In service on

route London-Marseilles-Brindisi and on her recent outward journey from Croydon delayed overnight by bad

at weather

Marseilles, The following morning the pilot, Capt. E R. D. White, who accompanied by an assistant pilot and

Lo wireless operator flew Brindisi where a load of malls was Making a quick tum picked up about he arrived back at Croydon shortly before midnight on same day. The 2,079 miles were covered in eighteen hours despite Ave halts for re-fuelling and freight purposes

10,000 MILES IN 12 DAYS

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METEOROLOGICAL

SERVICES OF AFRICA

Improving The Weather- Reporting System

All African territories, except ex- treme West Africa, were represent- ea at a conference of the Regional Commission fr Africa of the In- ternational Meteorological Organi

has just ended its sadon which sittings at Lusaka

Mr. A. Walter, Director of the British East Africa Meteorological Services, presided over the con- ference. which

attended by experts representing Imperial Air-

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The conference reached com- matters plete agreement on all

FLYING FLEA TESTS AIR SERVICES OF NEW

STOPPED

Cost Too Much

Tess of the atability and con- trol of the Mignet flying fles type being of aeroplane, which were done by the Royal Aircraft Estab- lishment, have had to be curtailed because the cost of the experiments involved in completing the

pro- gramme exceeded the funds at the disposal of the Air League of the British Empire. The League had Initiated the tests,

The tests which have been done conarm the findings of the French research workers. It is found that, the front wing, which provided controls the diving and climbing o? the machine, can be moved through a sufficiently large angle. It should be possible to extricate

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ZEALAND

Interesting detalis have become avaliable as to air transport pro- gress in New Zealand. Air Trave. (N.Z.) Ltd... which operates with Fox-Moths between Hokitika and some of the" lenst. Hanst, over

in territory

the developed Dominion carry settlers in an hour or so over country where pack- horses, the only alternative method of transport. would take days. Every settlement along the route has its landing-ground. Malls, 11-. cluding parcels. are carried, with- out any form of aerial surcharge A good deals of the traffic on this is provided by tourists route

the famous South travelling to Westland glaciers:

relating to Lechnical "methods to the machine from a dive up to and CYCLE MAKER TO

be employed especially In TK- gard to aviation. The matters discussed Included times 01

for observations, codes

wireless broadcasts. and Information to be supplied to pilots, research The conference will officers. etc.

aviation sarvices result in the

In Africa obtaining operating meteorological information under- standable by all nationalities, irres- pective of language.

thel? The services From New

hope, after

ratified by the resolutions central committee, and respective Governments, to bring uniformity into operation early next year. The commission is considered to have achieved a striking success co-operation, in international

A parcel of valuable drugs need- ed by a hospital was récenty car rled by air ten thousand miles from New York to Pretoria, South Africa, in twelve days. The hospital at Pretoria ordered cer- tain quantities of anaesthetic from New York by cable. York to Berlin they were carried by the airship 'Hindenburg'. There they were picked up by afr-liner and brought to Croydon in time to catch the next Imperial Airways service to Africa. Only twelve days from the time when the consigners in New York re-elved the cabled order they were delivered at Pre- taria hospital.

are

bringing within view the issue of

dally synoptic

all

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Africa.

Chart for

beyond the vertical

The Air League states that owing to the abbreviation of the testa, they are unable to predict

the influence that any change in the gap or overlap may produce.

It is recommended, therefore. that the dimensions of the ma- chine tested should be closely followed in this respect.

Finally the Air League recommend constructors to pay particular at- tention to the truth of their wings and rigging.

SEAPLANE BASE

Progress is going ahead rapidly with the Karachi seaplane base. which will be used by the flying- boats of the new Empire air-mall

scheme.

MOTOR JOTTINGS

THE NEW M.-G.

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One of these was the new "2- tre" M.-G., a tüirly distant des- ceridant of the original 18 hp. that made an enviable name for itself I have written a few years ago." 2-litre in quotation marks because,. although that is the official name of the car the engine-capacity is, in fact, nearly two litres and a third, the bore and stroke being 60 by 102, and, the rated power 17.7. It is taxed at £13 10s. This is a very fast car, with a maximum of well over eighty miles an hour (ninety, was quoted to me, "under reserve), yet it is in every respect a real touring car. The bodywork is just as roomy as that of most of its peers, it makes very little noise, and it is, except in one un- Important respect, as docile as any Ten in trade and elsewhere.

It is a good-sized car, with a wheelbase of 10 ft. 3 in.. and in its design follows "sports" practice, (As usual, I apologise for the use of that poisonous word, for which there seems to be no commercial paraphrase.) The gear-ratio, for example, is very high, the 4.75. top being supported by a 6.5 third and a 10 to 1 second. The compres- sion-ratio is also high, and that is the only thing that handleaps the car in rivalling the docility of a soft Ten. You have to keep a wary toe on the trattle-pedal' at low speeds to avoid pinking.

A NOVEL ROAD MAP

A particularly useful and ingeni- ous sort of read-atlas called "Quiet | Ways" has just been issued by the makers of Price's motor oils. It consists of twelve sections "show~* Ing the best ways through Eng- land, Wales, and South Scotland, avoiding traffic-routes and con- gested districts. The routes, which #re Arranged by the RAC are very clearly traced in black, the other roads being shown in green. One side of the neat contarr has a green celluloid window and when the section in use is. slipped be- hind this that appears is your chosen road and the names of the towns on it. Beside the map-sec- tions there are cards giving forty special routes, with mileages and full directions. It is obtainable only from Price's Works, Batter- sea, B.W.11, and costs 58. It is ex- actly what has been wanted for a long time by those who have grown to hate main roads and what you meet on them.

THIS SPEED

An Ex-Luxury

THE NEW 2-LITRE,

M.-G.

10-

Оле of the most remarkable things about the modern medium- sized car is the speed you get out of it. We have grown so

the last five or six customed in years to hearing about this or that car of modest rating doing what is quaintly called a genuine sixty or seventy miles an hour, that most of us have, forgotten what suen' figures mean, and accept them much as we accept forty or fifty. comfortably unimpressed by the fact that such speed is. properly speaking, the distinguishing writes John quality of luxury, Prioleau in the "Morning Post."

Consistent high speed, besides being by far the most expensive feature of motoring, is or was until lately one of the most diff- cult to achieve. Plenty of makers of all nationahties could make. a cheap car go fast for a strictly limited period. after which it usually

became # cústly vale- tudinarian, but practically all cars that could keep on going fast for

term the

óf their natural dear lives were

to buy. You had to pay for pace either

cash оп in

or

· delivery indefinitely extended instalments. You never got it except as an ex- tra

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AGREEABLE DRIVING

CAR MAGNATE

"How Lord Nuffield Made His Fortune

BEGAN WITH £5 CAPITAL

Forly odd years ago a youth with no particular education, and ap- parently little to recommend him, started work in Oxford helping to make bicycles. His name was William Richard Morris, states the "Evening News."

He is now Lord Nuffield, whose fortune is flow revealed to be more than £17,000,000. He is head of nine companies constitutng the biggest motor manufacturing or- ganisation in this country, and is a princely benefactor of charitable and other causes. His benefac- tions amount to more than £1- 000,000.

How did he acquire his fortune? Luck, romance? Neither. Just hard work, common sense and courage.

FAMILIES' CRUISING | plus-an important plus, of course

SIXTIES

Generally speaking, fast cars had good-sized engines, except of special "sports" course, in the

were, if not modi types, which fications of racing machines, at least plausible imitations of them. A proper touring or family car with im- that could be driven

a minute munity at over a mile whenever and for as long as "con- ditions allowed it, was pretty cer- tain to have an engine of at least 20 to 25 b.p. In several of the latest models such a performance is regularly achieved with a engine of not much more than half the cupacity, the cara are very far from being of the type that wears out at once, and their makers in no position to take foolish risks with a well and hardly earned re- putation for good workmanship and dependability."

With these cars you get speed thrown in, a feature as standard as a gearbox, You may not want that speed. except for accelera- tion, but the fact that you get it. so to speak, for nothing, Instead of for a large sum of money, Is, to my mind, one of the major won- ders of modern motoring. "

Within the last two months 1 have had sent to me for trial four ar Ave cars that would obviously willingly run at over sixty miles an hour for as long as normal condi- tions in this country would permit, costing between £250 and £400, carrying sensible-sized bodies, and built by manufacturers of estab- lished repute with both eyes on their good names. Two of them had claimed maximum speeds of at least eighty miles an hour- thing dimenlt to believe..

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a shade more direct. The brakes, од 12-inch hydraulle drams, are very powerful and con-

-a natural aptitude for engineer. ing amounting almost to genius

RODE IN RACES

Two years after starting to help to make bicycles he began to turn them out' himself in an old print- ing works in Oxford. His initial capital was £5.

To prove his machine he rode It in many races, and won numer- ous prizes, until claims of business forced him to abandon the track.

At 23, after six years' work on blcycles. he had accumulated £2,000.

Then he made his first motor- cycle That was in 1900. In 1904 be exhibited his motor-cycle for the first time at the London Mo- tor Show; he had worked four days and nights without sleep to finish it in time. Orders flowed into his small factory.

HIS FIRST CAR Seven years later, in 1911. when he was 34 he built his first mo- tor-car. A year later he opened his first motor-car factory at Cow- ley.

He was at the beginning of big things when war broke out in 1914, and all engineering works were wanted for war work. He was asked to make mine sinkers. A mine sinker moors the mine to the sea bottom, and regulates its depth below the surface.

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CANADIAN

EXHIBITION

Nearly a hundred British arms. including- Imperia. Airways, are exhibiting at the 58th Canadian National Exhibition, now in pro- at Toronto. "The Bri. Kress tish displays at

exhibition constitute a record.

the

East Coast Airways operate with D.H. Dragons between Napler, in and Hawkes Bay,

Gisborne, in Payerty Bay. There towns tap big districts, and the Dragons accomp. Ish in less than an hour a journey which by motor services-there being no railway-would occupy approximately 8 hours.

SCIENCE IN CRIME DETECTION

Sir B. Spilsbury Explains

An assortment of 'skulis, mum- miled and cremated remains, a poker that had been used by a murderer to kill a woman, and a bowler hat that had been worn by found with a a 16-year-old boy

his bullet through

hend were among the exhibits used by Sir Bernard Spilsbury in a demonstra- tion of scientific crime detection at the University College Medical school "recently.

The audience was composed mainly of parents of students, who had been invited by the Dean to" rerertion at the beginning of

season. the 1936-37

Every seat was occupied.

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The relationship of weapon to' Injury was illustrated by the top woman's skull and a rusty

of a

poker.

"The poker was found near thei

Bernard. There body," sald Str

were bloodstains on it, and the two fractures on the skull were of an unusual rectangular shape which fitted the shape of the weapon and so proves that the poker" had caused her death."

The owner of the bowler hat was found dead in a county lane. There was a bullet hole through his head and the hat and pistol were by his side. First Indications pointed to suicide.

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"I thought suicide improbable," said Sir Bernard. "It was clear hat bloodstains that the from had been on the head at the time of the boy's death, but suicides do not usually keep their hats on. They remove any possible obstruc- Mori

CIGARETTE CLUE

"A half-lighted cigarette was in one hand, which was another ob- jection to the suicide theory. Fur ther examination of the hat re- vealed traces of gases from discharge of the gun It was those gases that had blown on the hat."

the.

He showed a skull he had re- constructed from tiny fragments found beneath floor boards months after a man's death, and human bones on which an inquest was held, and which subsequently were discovered to be the remains of a man who had died and had been cremated,

It transpired that the widow Before long he was turning out had asked that her husband's 1,100 a week: 50,000 of them were ashes should be given back to her." planted in the North Sea, and he said. This is not now allow- thousands more around our ports ed."

to help guard them against enemy- raiders.

For this war work he took only a salary, and not a penny of profit from the contract,

At the end of four years of war he had an empty factory on his hands. His expert stan of car builders was scattered. It took" him a year to recover. A

HIS BIGGEST JOB "Starting up in the car business after the war," he has said, "was the hardest and biggest job in my life."

That high gear-ratio gives you very agreeable driving. Naturally, the third must be used freely but as the gear-change is almost fault-fidence-giving. The M.-G. is an less no driver who likes driving will industrious climber. Box Hill was taken on third and second as fast worry about that. The point is that, while I suppose the engine as was safe and at about a quar-

How well be accomplished it will turn over at more than 5,000 | ter-power. That high-geared se- everybody knows. He says that suc

cond proved to be a slight handi- cess comes from work. That is his revolutions a minute it must, i

cap on Pebblecombe Hill (maxi-philosophy, and he has proved it it really does ninety miles an

mum gradient 1 in 54), the time, hour), at sixty, on top and 50 on third you get no hint of it. The from a standing start, being 32 pull is very smooth, and neither sec., but it is very useful on com-

moner gradients. valvegear, exhaust, nor intake make more

than a very slight poise. There is nothing "sporting" about it-If that word means what It seems to mean.

The springing is good and the exceptionally .80. road-holding The steering is high-geared, light, and steady," but I think It might

The saloon is beautifully finished and really comfortable. The only fault I had to find was that not enough room has been left by the transmission-tunnel for one's left foot. This is beginning to be 'n fashionable fault. At £375 I re- gard the M.-C. as decidedly cheap:

Bir Bernard's last exhibit was the mummified body of a baby found wrapped in newspapers bearing the date May 20, 1870.

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all the money which his position sole Ordinary shareholder entitled bim to draw.

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In 1928 be was entitled to draw nearly three quarters of a million. He kept it all. In the business.

He was made a baronet In 1929 and a peer in January, 1934, He has no heir.

£10,000,000 OFFER REFUSED Despite his affluence Lord Nut- field and his wife live very simply near Henley-on-Thames. He likes He created, or re-created, Morris simple things and dislikes bally. Motors, Wolseley Motors, Morris hoe, banquets and speech-making.. Commercial Cars, Morris Indus He has a big faith in Britain tries, the MG Car Company, Mor- and the British workman. In 1930, ris Industries (Eports) and its as when Britain was depressed, he soclated organisatioris overseas, had to make a big decision, affect- Morris Garages, Morris Oxfording the livelihood of 50,000 work- Press, and the 8.U. Company. people. Should he frame a pro- When he was building up his duction programme akimped but great enterprise he saw the wis- mfe, or take a bold course? He dom of taking no profit from it, took the bold course, and justifled For years he put back into it

it.

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