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EFFICIENCY AND

SAFETY DEVICES

a

40 YEARS AFTER

To Brighton With

The Veterans

MOTORING MEMORIES

REVIVED

The Ddke of Kent opened Olympia recently the ninth Intér- national Printing, Stationery, and Allied Trades Exhibition. Seven years have passed ance there was a similar comprehensive demon- stration in this country of the progress made ins an

industry which is also a craft, and mucia of the machinery at the trade for the first time. A general Impres- sion is given of greater speed and efficiency; and increasing care is being directed, through the in-able museum troduction of various devices, to the promotion of safety in print- ing works.

out

GROWTH OF THE

AIR MAIL

Seventeen Years?

Progress"

!!

The Air Mail Service, which has grown enormously since the first route was opened in 1919 to Paris. Is on the eve of important deve lopments.

It is probably still

something of a mystery.to many unsuspect- ing Londoners who were ou early in Hyde Park this still autumn It is hoped that it will be pos-'| morning that the detonations sible next year for Imperial Air- from the direction of the Maga-ways' new fying boats to be used aine raised no alarm. Upon in- for Empire services. This will mean a substantial saving in time autry one might have been told

great increase in the and a that "the Old Crocks are

But it was more than

amount of mail to be carried. again." that at least for the veteran

In 1929, when the air mail from cars by which name their own- England to India was Arst estah- ers prefer them to be known). It shed, the weight of letters des- was their day. A thoughtful pub-patched by air to the Empire was fe no longer regarded these valu- a joke, plece as and even if they did evoke a smile it was benevolent and not unmixed with admiration, wrices the "Times" special correspondent. Their purpose today was commemorate the taxtieth an- niversary of the emancipation run (November 14) in 1896, when most of the leading motorists of that time drove, or attempted to drive. from London to Brighton to cele brate the passing of the first Motorcar Act. This legislation abolished the man with the red

to

The Duke of Kent, speaking at the opening ceremony, said that In recent years there had been an tinmence technical advance in the machinery of printing and in the industry as a whole. It would be dificult to exaggerate the impor-

OUM tance of printing in

daily lives. Newspapers, books, posters, and commercial printing of every kind were put before the public in greater and greater quantities."ag and permitted motor-cars to the public road at and the demand for the printed Proceed on

speeds in excess of two miles an word in alt its forms increased at

bour. Cars were grouped for the # rate which we might hope ge-

start according to age-none was fected a demand for a higher

newer than 1905-and they were. standard of civilization. This de-

dispatched at intervals of half a mand could only be satisfied by an

minute, or Bs near 'as possible Increasing speed of production.

according to the temperament of and he thought, increasing speed the machine. was the key-note of the exhibition.

MEN AND MACHINERY

While admiring the technical brilliance of the machinery that made possible production on these Ines they must not forget that its efficiency was due very largely to the skill of the men and women WİLO operated It, Fortunately there was no lack of skilled and Intelligent personnel in this coun- try. The printing trade now repre- sented an invested capital of ap- proximately £100,000,000 in plant and buildings alone and kept over 300.000 skilled, workpeople in con- stant employment. He, very much admired the spirit of co-operation of which the Joint Industrial Council for the industry was an outstanding example. It was due, he was sure, to this spirit that the standard of printing in all its forms maintained such a high level in Great Britain. Referring to the question of personal safety for those in charge of high-speed machinery, the Duke said he would be pleased to see in the ex- hibition the safety devices that were now incorporated.

Most of the record number of 93 entries were able to get away in style true to their type: from the single-cylinder models, with a good healthy "chuff-chuff" and impulsive progression, to the multi-cylinder 55 h.p. Napier (1903) driven by Mr. W. H. C. Blake, which occasionally rent the air with carsplitting, explosions. Among the last to letve was Cap- tain J.E. Wylie's Wolseley (1903). which made an uneventful jour- ney with plenty of power in re serve.

PEASE POTTAGE PASSED The route lay by Hyde Park Corner, down Constitution Hill. and over

Westminster Bridge. which was reached as Big Ben chimed 9.15. Then on through Brixton and Streatham to Purley. Reigate, and Crawley, where we had to stop for the first time for speed checking and to prevent any tendency to race, After Crawley the first to leave was a Cannstatt Daimler (1894) and the next an Arnold Motor Carriage (1896). driven by Captain E. de W: S. Colver, the only car on the road

about ten 100s. Last year it had By grown to a hundred and ten. the new service, when it is in fall. that is estimated | operation; it

mail more than twenty tons of will be carried every week-over a thousand tons a year. This anti- cipation of so vast an increase 15 based on the great acceleration that will be made in the service and the reduction to ltd. for the ball-ounce that la contemplated in the rate of postage.

Tb-day the following are exam- ples of the rates of postage for letters weighing half an ounce

3d-Egypt. Palestine, the Sudan.

Iraq. 6d-India, South Africa, Ketva

Rhodesia. Mizera, Hong Kong. 1s. 3d.-Australia, New Zealand. Originally the ordinary postage was charged in addition to the air fee, and the charges were much higher than they are to-day.

SAVING TIME.

Great reductions, too, are envis=" aged in the times of transmission. A striking contrast in the existing times will be seen it we compare the air route with the ordinary route for letters:

Ordinary

Route.

32 days

Air Mail.

To Brisbane. 12 days Singapore

8 days. 2 days To East Africa, the gain, owing to the less regular steamship sailings, is sometimes greater still. 46

For the more distant equntries. Indeed, it may, be stated roughly that a letter can be sent and a re- Ely received by air in the time oc- cupied by an ordinary letter lor the outward journey alone.

A further important point is that the Imperial air service to

Australly. India, Malaya,

and South Africa runs twice a week. whereas there is only one ordinary mall a week. Under the now sche me four or five services a week to India are contemplated, three to East Africa and Singapore, and two to South Africa and Australla. Another great development in the near future will be a Transat-

Mr. J. Crowlesmith, president of ¦ to-day which successfully co-lantic service, in preparation for. Master Printers Who presided, pleted the emancipation rün. said that the machinery exhibited | Dignity was found and lost at came from the leading engineering Pease Pottage," that hill almost as Arms of Great Britain, Canada, ind the Irish Free State. Seven other countries had also made contributions.

long as memory to the veteran driver; and soon we were passing the Sussex fields, soddened by the ‘recent rains, which build up to the Downs north of Brighton. This ppint was reached by the great majority before 4 o'clock.

which Imperial Airways are to be- sin trial fights next April.

THE INLAND SERVICE Or the inland air mail service. the outstanding example is that from. Inverness to the Orkneys, by which there is a saving of thirty hours for letters from London, These letters are sent at the ordiu- ary postage rate..

People often say they have never used the airmail because it is so complicated. The answer of the General Post Office might be something like this: Go to the nearest post officer, obtain an air mall leaflet, and buy a two-shilling book of stampa

AIDS TO LABOUR-SAVING During a tour of the exhibition the Duke of Kent saw some of the latest high-speed rotary and flat bed printing machinery, compos- ing machines snown by the Mono- type Corporation. Limited, Lino- type and Machinery, Limited, in- tertype, Limited, and other arms and also equipment for the mail type of business which is stlu a feature of the printing industry. At one stand where at operator sitting at a keyboard, was setting up type in Hindustani it was ex- plained that the machine did theheld at "the Hotel Metropole, letters could be sent to any part of

Brighton, at which Lieutenant Europe, at least four to any des Commander M. Graheme-White.tination on the Imperial routes President of the Veteran Car Club, between this country and Cape- town, and one could be sent to Australia.

Even the original run of 1896 can hardly have commanded more attention than_did to-day's com- mémoration. On the road traffic was very heavy-indeed. the modern driver seemed to prefer the convoy system of escort for the veterans-and the police, while showing admirable 'discretion.

So equipped, it is possible to send maintained a vigilant eye for ex- at least one letter correctly mark- ceas by those tars whose age dialed and bearing the correct postage not warrant such privilege.

to almost any country in the world' to which an air service exists. Bix

work of 10 compositors,

Inquiring about the effect of in troducing labour-saving dayices. the Duke expressed concern about the possibility of people losing their employment. He was in- formed by Mr. Crowlesmith that any reduction in labour was tem porary, as in the end experience had shown that a larger number of persons became employed,

Sir William Codling, controller of, H.M. Stationary Office, who at

In the evening a dinnel was

was in the chair. Awards won

during 1936 were presented, and there remained the problem of getting those anclent vehicles back to their places of rest, where they can benefit by, and their owners enjoy, that tinkering which is an affialty between them.

a luncheon proposed the toast ofsard and the "London Gazette"

would follow sult.

"Success to the Exhibition," said that printing machines had been

A REVOLUTION IN FRINTING developing rapidly in speed of pro- duction. A rotary' unit of a type Mr. Crowlesmith, who replied, shown in the exhibition would said that during the last 20 years print over 83,000 newspapers an the printing trade bad passed hour. Great improvements had through what amounted to a re- also been made in the past few volution. Their industry was tac- years. In type-composing machines,ing its own problems at the pre- and the variety of work that sent time, one of which was the could now be set was potably demand for shorter hours of la perior to that which was possible at the time of the previous ex hibition. They were cognizant of redressing of The

During the past three years the volume of correspondence, carried by air from this country has grown. as follows:-

Yea!.

1933.

1934

1935

Letters sent by air.

* 4,000,000

6,000 000: 10,500,000 This year there will be another substantial increase to record.

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