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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1935

FLYING SCOTSMAN-One of Britain's crack express traina, one hundred years after the formation of the first railway company,

100 YEARS

OF RAIL

HISTORY

Centenary Of The

Great Western

YOUTH IS NOW AT

THE FIREPLATE

A centenary which appeared to of passing almost

be in danger

on

unnoticed will be celebrated August 31, when the Great Western Railway achieves Ita hundredth anniversary of tence as a company.

exin-

"Puffing Billy", the first engine to run on smooth rails.

conscious, into a pool of water; he was twice nearly killed on the The extent of the celebrations line; while his mest anxious mis- is still a matter of domestle dis- hap was the swallowing of a half- at Paddington, where sovereign which remained in the details are being planned, but out great man's windpipe for six of the preliminary conferences weeks.

Cuenton

has emerged the decision to hold)

an exhibition associated with the

Eton Protests

birth and development of the line. Híd pioneering days were any- thing but pleasant. Many peuple

So that this may be as compre-did not want the railway, notably hensive as possible, an appeal is the authorities of Eton College. being made to utl who passERS

It was compluland that the engines relics of the old Great Westerntine

would prison the air, that the would Interfere with the Company, or of the companies | landscape, and that it would cor-j which it absorbed, to communicate rupt the merals of Eton boys "by | with the secretary, Mr. P. R. E. giving them easy access to the! Davis, at Paddington Station. dissipations of London."

Elon

Vico Multitudė Uneasy As New Expose Impends

New York. Aug. 8. A fulldress vice inquiry, scheduled to start in New York same time next month. has set the stage for an in- derworld drania that BREY lave numerous ramifications.

"Death to the squealer,'

of the half-world, threatens informers.

low

uneasy multitude stands behind the cartain, some ready to flee the state, others cluselipped and grim. a third group confident but wary, and on the fringe a frightened remnant, wracked

One solld souvenir of the past Bill. They demanded fencing or

by indecision. resolutely opposed the

All-in-all,

a fragile bui- that has been rediscovered is #

a brick wall for four miles to keep

wark, built predominantly on buffer of the North Star, the the boys away from the track, al-

greed and interspersed with original engine which, in Decem- though the line war three miles

fear and courage, if the ber. 1837, pulled the first train away. The railway company had

Foundation weakens, the in- that left Paddington for Maiden- to supply patrolling policemen,

quiry may reach the heart of the vice morass, but like head. For decades it has

be under the orders done who were

destroying a huge monster service as a music-stool; now it is to build a branch line to Windsor. of the Headmaster They had not

many blows must be struck ngain in its protecting position on;

before there is any sign of the gallant old engine in the rail-

weakening,--United Press. way shops at Swindon.

Stage by stage the line. grew. Actually the first train ran on De- cember 27, 1837, when the line

To two remarkably young men → from Paddington to Maidenhead

AVIACONFUTÓFASELJUKATLANINCIPAL WORK

"SMITHY" TO FLY TO HONGKONG

AIR ACE PLANS TWO MAJOR FLIGHTS

Sydney, Aug. 7. Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, fa- mous Australian air race, has completed plans for two major flights across the world.

The first will be from Mildenhall to Melbourne, in an attempt to lower the Centenary Air Race record set *up by C.W.A. Scott and Campbell Black in October last

year.

The second flight will be a Goodwill Mission to Japan. It will take four days, and stopovers will be made at Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai en route.

Kingsford Smith proposes to In

1930 it crossed the Atlantic

make the Far Eastern flight soon from Europe to America-the after he completes his attempt on more difcult direction,

the England-Australia record. Hel

Past Triumphs Recalled

Known all over the world as

the

will fly the Lockheed Aftair low- winged monoplane Lady Southern! Cross, in which he recently cross-Old Bus," the monoplane Southern ed the Pacific, on both flights. Cross has a record of historic achleve-

A representative of the Austra- ment unequalled by

other any ventured into lian Commonwealth Government aeroplane. She has

the

the Aretic, pioneered

airways has been invited to accompany himi

encircled on the flight to Japan. No mail, across vast ocean spaces,

the globe, and turned threatened din. freight or commercial matter of aster into triumph In one of the most

any kind will be carried.

A

thrilling episodes In the history of

✡

Cross has continued to justify the pride nad affection of her owner.

Sir Charles stated he wanted aviation.

The Southern Cross has Just 裁膻 this light "not to count for any commercial interest, but for Aus-much right to be regarded as

"museum piece" as the old machines tralia."

of Bleriot and the Wright Brothers. He la now in the United States, Since 1928, when Sir Charles Kings- taking delivery of his machine, ford Smith and his companions made which was mortgaged to pay for the first Pacific flight, there have [been great strides in the develop- the Pacille venture.

have Prior to his departure for the ment of aircraft. Machines United States, Sir Charles made been developed which are like minia- ture hotels in the air: Scott and his last flight in the Southern Campbell Black in their Comet have Cross, the "old bus" in which he flown from London to Melbourne in liner to made many of his earlier triumphs. less time than it takes a

cross the Tasminn, but the Southern The famous old Fokker mong plane, after nearly half a million miles flying, during which it

Wilkins' Arctic Flight brought its owner fame and knighthood, was flown by

the The monoplane was built by "Smithy" to honourable retire-

it Pokker Company, during

early ment at the Australian Museum days in the United States and was in Canberra.

known as a Fokker F7. I was ac- "Southern Cross" will never flyquired by Sir Hubert Wilkins for his

in The Federal exploration flights the Arctic. again for Australia. Government bought the machine Actually, it was taken to from Kingsford-Smith for £3,000, Alaska, in 1927, but crashed on the rough fer. The machine was flown It will and

stand alongalde in the Arctic, but it was

not the the pioneer machine In which actual craft in which Wilkins made his Sir

Smith made Rogn

the great flight from Alaska to Svalbard first flight froth England to Aus-in 1928.

The machine was offered for saje tralia in the Federal Museum.

Only a few weeks ago the big by Wilkins to Kingsford Smith when

the latter was in California negotiat plane imped back home across the Tasman sea with a crippled in for his Pacife Bight.

The monoplane was fitted with engine. It was saved by the three Wright Whirlwind engines and gallantry of "Smithy's" co-pilot, C. before the Pacific venture on attempt Taylor, who climbed to the wing was made to break the world's record and fed the remaining engine with for sustained flight, which then stood at 52 hours 22 minutes. The attempt foil by hand.

failed by about two hours but, never- Last year it flew unfalteringlytheless, it was held to provide de-

(Continued on Page 7.) across the Pacifle to California.

Barrow,

Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was opened by a "special" drawa Famous Australian Airman Coming to Hongkong Soon

Charles Alexander Saunders by the North Star. Meantime, the belongs the credit for the build-line was being constructed at the ing of the original line, which was] Bristol end, and on August 31. started in a fold at Temple Mead 3840, was opened between that at Bristol, and terminated in a city and Bath. Emetly a year field at Puddington. £2,000,000 was inter the line was clear between needed for the 16 miles of track, London and Bristol. and through the activities of Saunders, the Brst speretary, then only thirty-seven years of age, the ever. What happened was that a beflagged train left Paddington

There was no ceremony

what-

shares were subscribed through with the hoard of directors, and the holding of public meetings in made the journey in between four the towns to he served. "It was and five hours. It was recorded and and harassing work, calling that no one's hat blew off. upon Kel pressing. perfect strangers to contribute,” wrote Saunders.

A Fine Engineer

Paddington Station

Paddington Station ne we still know it was opered in 1854, an- olher tribute to the genius and An even more remarkable per vision of Brunel, for he envisaged Ronality was the engineer, Brunel, the increase in tiefle to come, and selected for this great task in for fifty years it remained

un-

a new form of transport at the altered. Indeed, it was not until nge of twenty-six. Brunel's con- 1012 that a fourth great arch was nection with the Great Western added to those built by the great lasted until his death twenty-six engineer. years after his appointment and

in quarter of a coutury he በሁ Achievement and extension complished work which for its followed almost yearly, and it was magnitude and versatility has after Brunel's death that the most probably never been equalled. Asjdifficult task of all, the construc- a bridge-builds of the highest tion of the Severn Tunnel, was un- class his monumenta are to be dertaken. This

-five occupied found conspicuously, among other years and was completed after places, at Saltash and Chepstow, heartbreaking difeulties. It was During the construction of the not until December, 1886, that it frat section of the rallway he could be opened to passenger found time to design and overlook traffic, bringing Cardiff one hour the construction of the Grent nearer to London.. Western' steamship-the first to travel from England to New York

When the railway opened it had

and back under steam power alone. 116 single track miles. To-day It He was busy later with the Great Pussegays 9,075 miles. Its capital Britain, the first large steamship has grown from £2,000,000 to to be built of iron and driven by £147,000,000. Every year approxi a screw propeller.

mately 126,000,000 passenger journeys are made by Great But monuments to his genius Western. During the Great War and energy are everywhere. He it carried 3,200,000 officers and bullt the two lofty water towers of men, aud much of the impedimenta the Crystal Palace: he constructed of war. docks and harbour works; he turn- ed his attention to gunnery and

It holds the record for sofc ballistics during the Crimea: and travelling, for since 1916 only one. during that campaign designed a passenger has been killed, military feld hospital on the The Great Western oxhibition pavillon principle which endures should be a magnificent history of to this day.

progross in .ono hundred years, and will stamp on the minds of And in all his netivities he had the present generation a charried life. After Just tounding genius and determina escaping drowning in the Thames tion of one man-the great Tunnel, he fell from a ladder, un-Brunel,

the üs

AFRICA

LATLANTA

LOCEAN

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PACIFIE

INDIAN

OCEAN

KAESTRAND

A flight half way around the world in 21⁄2 days, from Milden- hall to Melbourne, is the latest aim of Sir Charles Kingsford. Smith, the famous Australian air ace, right, in the low-wing Lock- heed Altair plane in which he re- cently crossed the Pacific, shown above. The map indicates the route Kingaford-Smith will fal- low in bis effort to lower Scott and Black's record of 2 days, 23. KRAKATAO, the famous vol- cano in the Straits of Sunda, be- hours, set up in the Centenary tween Sumatra and Java, In Air Race. When he completes" : 1883 it erupted with such violence that the noise was heard in the this fight," Kingsford-Smith will Philippines and a tidal wave oc- leave Melbourne on a Goodwill curred in Hongkong ashes to Flight to Japan, calling at Singa- This volcans, now submerged, is port, Hongkong and Shanghai en descending over The Colony

showing · - renewed

'activity:"

signs of

route.

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