1937-03-02 — Page 2

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937.

AVIATION

Eliminating European Train Links On Empire Flights Inauguration Of The Marseilles-Brindisi Air Sections

An Important step has just been eliminating European taken in train-links on Empire air journeys. On January 3rd the new Imperial Airways flying-boat, 'Castor, dew from Southampton to Marseilles to take her place with Canopus 'and 'Centaurus in operating the Mediterranean sections of the Empire air-lines, and on January 4th, leaving Marselles with pas- sengers, malls, and freight she

Marseilles Inaugurated Brindisi air section, fying via Lake Bracciano, (Rome), to Brin- the following day disi, and an

Mediterranean crossing the

Alexandria.

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to

Durban Air-Port For THE WORLD OF

Empire Flying-Boats

Reports from Durban state that

WINGS

A greatly increased use of al

RADIO APPROACH BEACONS

Experiments are Now being made at the London air-port. Croydon, with three different

a. site for the seaplane base, forcraft, in agricultural operations, systems of ultra-short-wave radio use by the Empire flying-boats on has been decided upon by the approach beacons-the Lorenz the East Coast Africa route, has Russian authorities. It has beenPleasey, and

асгед

the same

the

ares

seeds

Marconi It is ex-

now been fixed at a well-sheltered found that whereas seeding plained that these 'radio systema spot on the west side of the oll machine working on the ground are designed to give automatic sites. It is explained that it will takes about 20 hours to sow 250 navigational assistance to aircrafi. services toward' from Indla and

b3 necessary to dredge an area

Can be coming in to land in bad visibi outward to Africa still employing approximately 1,200 feet long, and treated In approximately sixty, and that they should be a the Paris-Brindisi train link. But 300 feet wide, to give the neces-hours when

are valuable complement to the nor

mal direction-finding

ground with the coping into operation of sary depth of water for moorings. own from 陇 low-flying zero- further units of the feet of 'Land reclamation will also be plane. Fresh plans 'are being equipment, which is designed only class nying-boats. the Marseilles

necessary. "A pontoon and jetty made to combat, from the air Brindisi airlink will be made to are to be provided, while a special locusta and other agricultural apply to all Empire service, while block of buildings will be erected pests. Locust awarma will be in due course European train links for the, accommodation of Cus located and destroyed by specially are to be eliminated altogether,

toms, health, and immigration equipped aeroplanes.

Chemicals the entire journey between. Eng- officers, and for the Imperial Air-will also be sprayed from the air land and the Mediterranean and ways staff. In addition there will on mosquito swamps. onwards

the Empire, be a concrete hangar with an apron, across the being accomplished by air.

Air-Liner Sights Wrecked' Schooner

the establishment of Prior to this Marseilles-Brindisi air link, Empire

Another example has just been and malls, passengers have, after flying between London provided of the life-saving powers of the modern flying machine. and Paris,

On reaching. Barranquilla the the other day, the Captain of a Pan-American air-liner reported a two-masted schooner stranded and being battered by waves on a small island off the North Colom- bian coast. The air-liner Cap tan also reported that," having flown close to the craft, he had been able to observe men ella- ing to the wreckage.

covered the Paris- Brindisi sections by train. The greater speed of the new Empire nying-boats, and the shortening of the European train link to a Paris-Marseilles section, mean that on these stages passengers now spend only one night, instead of Although two, in train travel. total elapsed times are not altered. now spend approxi- passengers mately 17 fewer hours in actual travel over the sections Indicated. enjoying a comfortable night's rest in an hotel in Brindisi instead of having to spend it the train, and having more time at their dis- posal for any incidental sight- seeing.

At present the services operating to and from Marseilles com- prise two outward-boung to India, and two inward from Africa, the

As a result of this aerial warn- 1ng a relief expedition was im- assembled. und. on mediately reaching the wrecked schooner. It was found possible to save the lives of fourten members of the crew. who said they had almost

themselves

for lost up given owing to the extremely isolated spot at which their vessel had gone

ashore.

MOTOR

+

to lead aircraft to the immediate proximity of an aerodrome.

The radio approach system

screen

comprises three principal units a main 9 metre beacon, giving a path of approach from a distance of 10 or 15 miles; a 'distant.*. or outer 7.89 metre marker beacon, 1 to 2 miles from the aerodrome,

2 vertical throwing up across the main approach patch; inner or *aerodrome' 7.89 marker beacon. throwing up

and providing a similar screen, second point of reference on the approach path at a distance of about 300 yards from the edge of the aerodrome.

a and

while in front of it will be an- Queer loads Agure constantly in chorage for the flying-boats. In aeria

cargoes, The other day, the meantime, while work is in down from Lima to a scientist in hand on this permanent base, a New

York, was the skull of temporary base will be provided at mammified Inca warrior of long Salisbury Island.

A feature of this skull which made it of special interest to scientists was, it appears, that it bore signs of a wound made by a club or stone during some battle

CHILDREN AS AIR TRAVELLERS

ago.

in which the Inca warrior "had A little girl of eight, Miss H J. been engaged. It was also said to Weston, recently travelled, unbear signs of some primitive, opera. accompanied from Kisumu to tion as performed by Indian`sur- London by Imperial Airways. As geons, The other day officials in a playmate. on the journey she the freight department of Im- had Master Parry, of Cape Town, perial Airways worked out a list who is two or three years older, of just on

as Miss Werton over part of the route, said:

#hundred

different

Popular In Empire Flying-Boats

Among the many aspects of the new Empire flying-boats which are finding favour with passengers, none is evoking greater praise than the provision of the spacluas

"O" class

aircraf

† and who was Hying with his items, illustrating the variety in father to London. An official who the loads now passing in and out was flying on the same air-liner of the London air-port. These promenade cabin. The promenade ranged from bullion to tropical deck is, in fact, already proving fruit; from engineering parts to one of the most popular features "This little girl enjoyed her trip rare flowers and plants; and from.] of thete, big immensely. She was as lively as urgently-required drugs and medi- Reports now to hand, for example.

cricket, being keen to see cines

show that passengers spend much everything. At Luxor. for example,

of the time while in lights. in on getting up very

walk up and down this she insisted

pro- early in order to make sure of

menade, and in watching through its windows the scenery passing being able to accompany a sight- seeing party. She told me she

below." was always going to travel by air.'

1

JOTTINGS

Early Days Of Motoring

Foundation Of The R.A.C.

Mr. Frederick R. Simms, wha was founder and first vice-chair- man of the Royal Automobile Club and founder and first president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, began his motoring career in the days when the law required a man with a red flag to walk in front of "mechanically propelled machines." and what pioneer motorists call the "Emanel- pation Act" was passed only one year before he founded the Royal Automobile Club, in 1807. The repeal of the old Highways and Locomotive Acts followed close on the International Motor Car Exhibition-the first in this coun- try-held at the Imperial Institute In 1898 The exhibition was or- ganized by the Motor Car Club. also founded by Mr. Simms, Mem- Ders of both Houses of Parlament

were invited to the exhibition to see how necessary it was that the uld Acts should be altered to per- mit of the development of the

motor-car.

King Edward VII then Prince Di Wales-attended the exhibition. and Mr. Simms and Mr. Evelyn Ellis explained to him the my- steries of the first Cannstatt Daimler motor-car, in which the Prince ventured as a passenger in a short drive up a narrow wood xamp with a grade of one in 10. In November, 1896, Mr. Simms drove a Cannstatt-Daimler baru- che, with Mr. Gottlieb Daimler as passenger, in the historie London to Brightom motor-car run, which

120 ploneer motorists, and much excitement was caused by the gathering and fussy trial runs out- side the premises of so many mo- tor-cars. This was the beginning of what is now the Royal Auto- mobile Club, with its handsome premises in Pall Mall and its huge membership. In the early days.

DRIVING BY SIGNALS

Over-Emphasis In The Tests

THE "SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT""*

BY OLIVER STEWART

In ariving tests, in instruction

the club's finances often required and in officially sponsored pro- careful nursing, and Mr. Simms recalls having financed the club topaganda I seem to detect lately a certain amount of over-emphasis the extent of £1,000 out of his

upon the value of hand and me own pocket before the corner was

dhanical signals. turned.

When tne Royal Automobile Club celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary, on December 8, 1922,

There are on

the roads more than 3,000,000 drivers who have 1105 undergone the driving test, so that one cannot determine from

by a dinner at the Covent Garden observation of road behaviour Theatre, the then Prince of Wales -afterwards King Edward VII- presented Mr. Simms with an ad- dress in which the R.A.C. expressed

But the failures have risen from

|

to such oddities as

live locusts, mosquitoes, and spiders. consigned in special containers for laboratory research.

The work of the Meteorological Department of the Government of India now necessitates the employ radio-meteorograph. This is at- ment of more than 300 observing tached to a pilotless balloon and stations in various localities. Dur- ing a recent period of twelve months sent up to heights of from 10 to 15 miles. The Instrument is cap- able of

transmitting automati-

a total of 8.624 weather forecasts -as distinct from. aviation wea-

addition, 836

Department.

weather

ther reports were stued by the cally by. wireless, from the air to Meteorological,

in- ground receiving stations, . In

formation as to température, afr reporta Madras were supplied on the

pressure, and humidity at dife- rent altitudes. route, together with hundreds of special weather reports

Reports from Canada show A special study of tropical thut during a period from Apri storms, in their relation to air ist to September 30th. 1938. navigation. 'Is being made by a patrol aeroplanes in Ontario research staff in Havina, One of succeeded in detecting over 2.000 the Instruments employed is

forest fires.

the left," or "you may overtake ; traffic (I was careful not to cause me on my right," overtake.

real danger). But when I made They wil merely watch the other the signincant movements but car and wonder what it is going t failed to make the hand signals I do. And in a regrettably large | flowed comfortably with the traff number of instances the other car streams and did not once, so far as I could see, cause inconvenience to will turn to the right.

Bimilarly, mechanical semaphore | other vehicle drivers. signals may mean anything or nothing. Cars go about all day with one arm extended solely be- cause the driver has forgotten about it. No driver in his senses will assume that another car is going to do what its mechanical signal says it is going to do.

The hand movements which are

what results the test is achieving taken for signals, but are, in fact, about 10 per cent. at the begin the knocking of ash off a cigarette, ning to about 31 per cent. at the or the pointing out of objects of Its appreciation of his work as the

too atten been present time. and the letters I interest, have club's founder. The address ac-

have had from readers state that satirised for it to be necessary to knowledged his "clear and far- sighted vision of the future of the attributed to the incorrect use of

a good many of the fallures are refer to their shortcomings at

-length. Internal combustion engine as a hand and mechanical signals. means of traction." and the fact

This suggests that too great re that he was the first to conceive lance is being placed on signals as a means of securing road safety. Most drivers of experience treat and that experienced drivers know the signals given by other drivers they are untrustworthy. It would with the greatest circumspection. be a greater aid to road safety if They will not when they receive the testers and the authorities the signal "I am going to turn to

the idea of a national automobile

club, in order that the best means of safe-guarding and furthering the interests of automobilists might be secured."

** MANUFACTURERS AND

TRADERS

The founding of the Boclety of Motor Manufacturers and Traders

UNTRUSTWORTHY SIGNALS

The fact is that hand and mes chamiesi signals are untrustworthy

Yet significant movement" is hardly mentioned in the Highway Code, and testers and official pro- pagandists seem to take less notice of it than of band and mechanical Bignificant movement signals. consists in steering and generally so handling the car that it shows clearly what are its driver's inten

tions.

If the car is going to turn right out of a heavily loaded road into

a side street, for instance, the car will gradually edge to the right stream and will thei, as it ap proaches the entrance to the side street, gradually slow down. If on- coming traffic is unbroken the car will Dually come to rest about in the centre of the road and with the front wheels locked over to the

No kind of hand or mechanical

right. There it will wait for an opening. paid more attention to the "sign-signal can tell following drivers ficant movement” "of the 'ĉar itself. more plainly what a car is going Significant movement is the most to do than this combination of Important and the most trust-edging to the right, slowing down, worthy kind of signial. It is Bity and locking over to the right, times more important than any Prior to every turn from the main amount of hand flapping or sema- stream, the car should make the @ppropriate significant movement. At the traffic/lights Vit ́should stop on the side, appropriate to its subsequent progress. At round- abouts it should weave to the op-

Lord Austin was one of the first by Mr. Simms, in 1902, was an im- members of the council of a so- portant event in the history of the ciety which has since developed was organized by the Motor Carrising British motor-car industry. | Into the powerful trade organiza-phore wagging:

The immediate reason for it was tion of the British motor-car in- a loss of £1,600 to the Royal Auto- | dustry. mobile Club on its frat Inter- Motoring ploneers are a hardy national Motor Show, held in the breed, and at the age of 73 Mr. Old Deer Fark, Richmond, in 1890. Simma is still actively in practice in one direction I gave the handpropriate stream so that, when it

as a consulting engineer at his This made it clear that the new club could pot continge holding office in Pall Mall After more exhibitions on its own account, than 40 years of it be is still and eventually Mr. Simma per keen: motorist, but this is among suaded the leading manufacturers the less arduous of his recreations and traders to combine in a new He is tond of shooting-not only organization which would, among from butts and he spent his last other things, exercise a monopoly holiday successfully of the holding of motor shows, chamois in Tirol.

Club to celebrate the coming into force of the new motor-car Act.

NEW CLUB FOR MOTORISTS - Having severed his connexion with the Motor Car Club, Mr. dimms set about the organization of a new club for motorists on the model of the Automobile Club de France or which he had been a member since 1895--and the Auto- mobile Club of Great Britain was instituted on December 8, 1897, at Whitehall Court. An official luncheon was attended by some

hunting

Rocendy I drove across London fróm north' to'south and then from south to north, making as many turns and detours as possibic, and

cignals but failed to make the significant movements; while in the other I made the significant movements but failed to give the band signals

comes to its turning, it does not have to pall across the bows of other trate

|| If it is going to stop beside the road, it should gradually slow When I gave the hand signals down, drawing in closer and closer but failed to make the significant to the kerb all the time, and rari- movements I was a source of an- ning almost imperceptibly to a to other standstill.

noyance and

trouble

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