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Empire Flying
N
early
a misty morning in November, 17 years ago, I stood
on the aerodrome at Hounslow, and watched a tiny aeroplane ascend and disappear on its way to Paris, carrying the first air-mail load to be con- signed by the Post Office on the commercial flying routes between London and the Continent.
That little 360-h.p. transport- plane carried a load of 400lb., and it flew at 80 miles an hour.
Yesterday, in this column, writer discussed the so-called "Rent Ramp" in Hongkong and intimated that the remedy lay in the reform of the system which allows investment for a profit. He journeyed, for
The other day-epitomising little, into the realm of the ab- stract; and he suggested that 17 years of British air progress -I saw the giant British trans- British people may be funda-port aircraft, Sanopus, the last mentally wrong in their word in modern commercial de- generally accepted views on sign, leave to inaugurate the economics. At least that is many will interpret the words, and may not agree with them. However, there is no in- tention to argue here the merits, or otherwise, of the capitalistic system. Perhaps it suits the British mentality. It seems to have served.very well.
how
But the immediate problem facing Hongkong calls for another sort of remedy. It is
anasthmack years America has paid more
By Harry
HARPER
the well-known authority on the history of flying.
new all-in air mail service to total is approaching 300,000 Singapore-longeat and cheapest miles. air route in the world.
This machine carries a crew of five. It has day saloons for 24 passengers and sleeping berths
for 16.
And, in comparison with the one small bag of letters carried by that first mail-'plane of 1919, proximately three tons. it can carry a mail load of ap-
Vast Mileage
At the present time, the Bri- tish Empire has the distinction of leading the world in commer- cial air route mileage in opera- tion.
The latest official figures are: British Empire, 53,291 miles; United States, 52,461; France, 24,451: Germany, 22,291; Netherlands, 12,898. To-day there are fundamental commercial issues which govern
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But a measure of rent control does not mean socialism, It calls for the exercising of ordinary common-sense.
No- one, from the staunchest of con-
THE "VERY IDEA”
Empressive Sight In Our Harbour
By Lord Eddle Kelly
E have just been hob- WE
nobbing with Royalty and the blue-bloods aboard the Empress of Britain.
Their blood is so blue that they carry a bottle of Stephen's Ink around with them, just in case they're feeling anaemic.
'Armed with gold coins and bank drafts and other little- known currencies, these tourists will shortly invade our shops.
Despite their wealth they will drive so hard a bargain that they will beat the unfortunate shop-keeper's prices down to a measly 150 per cent, above ordi- nary local charges.
These tourists should be warned about beggars. Inst year there was a man named Shaw aboard. When his companions sald. “Come, Show!" they were mobbed.
An amazing number of cam- phorwood boxes will be sold to the tourists.
Still, we suppose that is what they camphor..
They also came to see the sights, This, of course, is no reflection on ladies who live on the Peak.
The Empress of Britain in the largest ship to berth at the Kow- loon wharf. It must have been a wharfully ticklist job taking her than £30,000,000 in air mail sub-alongside. If we were on the sidies. During the same period bridge we'd be scared stiff that the British Government granted we were going to pilot up. only about £3,500,000 in sub- sidies to Imperial Airways..
Abroad subsidies have been lavished on a form of civil avia- tion which has a definitely mili- tary background.
Here our subsidies have been
on an extremely modest scale,
and British commercial aviation has been making its aircraft carry bigger loads for any given horse-power, and has been en- couraging more and more people to fly by giving them the best possible combination of speed, safety, reliability, and comfort.
Figures
recent for a period of 12 months show that big British luxury aero- planes, flying in and out of
Still, the Britain should have no difficulty in berthing anywhere. We notice it carries a Peer.
Let us away from this noisesome office.
Croydon across the Con- tinent, carried more passen- gers than all the competing foreign air lines put to- gether.
The British Mercantile Air Service is being built up on the aame sound lines as the British Mercantile Marine, and its re- putation for reliability-for "de- livering the goods"—is already world-wide.
Smaller Policemen & Soldiers, but-
MAN is GROWING
1
IFE is a misfit. The
LIFE
future is stiff with giants, but no one wants them.
Europeans stand two inches taller than their grandfathers, and behold!
recent
TALLER
-says-
John Crofton
gan we had just one 250- govern that of trains or steam- miles route between London and ships. In the air there are com- Paris. To-day British mail mercial speeds that pay and loads, leaving London by air, three are speeds that do not. are flown over nearly 30,000 miles of European and Empire Speed And Comfort routes and 20,000,000 letters a RELYING on far greater sub- our grandsons, the doctors and an- sidies than are available in thropologists say, will Sour three, year are carried.
In 1919, throughout the world, this country, foreign enterprise possibly four, inches higher still. there were only 3,000 miles of is, in certain cases, piling up air ke trees, as men, walking.
Remoter descendants yet may look But this organised airways. To-day the speed to a point which, though is all the height of felly. Alrendy. servatives to the hottest liberal
spectacular and gratifying to to-day, a giant has the impulse to go
into the garden and cat serpents. tortionist in hotel beds, of genuflect- (and we are not using the word
national prido, is definitely un-
was another cut at lofty of bending like an ox over a manger in the political senso) likes the to house a population which has economic for commercial flying, land en pronouncement by Scot-ing before other people's mirrors and idea of profiteering. Especially as much right to live here as and would be impossible to main pride. The minimum height for the at other people's tables. We tire
Metropolitan Police
was reduced by even of lifting our wives on the hull, is there a strong feeling against you have."
tain were it not for heavy finan-
one inch to 511. Bin. That cans chair to kiss them goodbye in the money-grabbing in a time of The rights of private indivi-cial backing from the State.
comparative pygmies will soon wear
car morning.
But there is a more subtle trouble emergency and profiting from duals must be respected-until Britain is now putting on her that sky-scraping helmet which (like the misfortunes of others. A they come into collision with the Empire routes flying-boats the Guardsman's bearskin) was in- which lesser, thus happier, mortais rarely comprehend. It is that be reasonable return on Invest rights of the public. In a state which, in their combination of Vented to add to formidable stature a
stiil more elongated look.
tween the man of Bft. Gin, and the ments is desirable from the of real emergency individuals speed, reliability, comfort for
ordinary run of mankind a gloomy point of view of every citizen, are likely to find their goods passengers, and ability to carry
"psychological barrier is set.
I have never noticed a St. Bernard whether ho owns property or and property commandeered, commercial loads, represent the not. For prosperity of any and the price they will get for most successful combination of
FIVE feet cight-only three and a collection of terriers amicably
inchen above the average |
"getting together." And thus it in class or section of society is, to their possessions may not be, in a number of varying qualities Englishman! I challenge the Com--we giants disconcert the lower some extent, of benefit to the their minds, anything Ilkothat has so far been evolved. missioner of Police to say: How long human animals,
However kindly disposed, they worth. whole. What Hongkong people their
But If
does he suppose that visitors to his the These big 18-ton air-bouts Metropolle will go on thinking his cannot take us into their confidence. do object to is a piling of profit Government, which is the can attain a maximum speed of polleemen wonderful?
They can never put the hand of on profit, and an attempt to public, needs them, automobiles just on 200 miles an hour; while
good fellowship on our remote These jars, such as the lowering of shoulders. They get a crick in the make up for slim earnings in or houses must be surrendered. when carrying their full loads the height standard for the police and brain when talking to us. the past by raising beyond a fair So it is with living quarters
Little men are often colossal pesta, level the present selling price of in Hongkong at the present. If they are capable of maintaining the Army, make us---I mean the stal- any commodity or possession, landlords are not reasonable in a cruising speed of 160 miles an ward fellows who can knock a fore- to us. They remind us (standing head against the 8ft 6in. mark-feel on tiptoe with their heads dung embarrassed and small. Well, not back) that Alexander and Napoleon whether it is flour or butter or their demanda for rental-and
small, anachronistic. motor cars or floor-space.
it is for the Government to do- The speed, for a really large
We think of the times when stature were of about their inches, that Nel
son stood below average
height,
that In ordinary times a man is cide what is fair charge-there type of aircraft carrying heavy was a good reliable commodity. We Beethoven was rather short, and that entitled to build a house or a ought to be a way of forcing loads, and providing sleeping es recall how the nations for his but not in body.
eagerly Frederick the Keats and Shelley towered in mind, conform with the well as day accommodation for Great
How detestable are these com- placent midgets. The temptation je... To-day mechanisation and science to put a hand in one's trouser-pocket.
to
hour.
The Subsidies
"I challenge him.
ancient aristocratic superiority; they face.
put us at a disadvantage. The Sull, up to 6ft. Bin., one can main- Lanks or surplus avoirdupols in their thin some llalaon with the world. bombers any more than the polled Things might be worse.—3ft. - require, glants at the wheel of their worse if you take, for example, bandit-chasers.
Mahomed Chazei,,of Cairo, 800
block of flats, and ask whatever them rent he likes. He is entitled to exigencies of the times. It is its passengers, represents a rea- Potsdam Guards, men averaging two a hundred per cont. per annum not suggested that the remedy sonably economic air speed for yards and six inches. on his investment if he canis confiscation, But it la sug-commercial purposes at the pre-do more than rob the really tall of an and rattle the loose chunga: In: their get it. Conditions are generally gested that anyone who has a sent time. auch, however, that he will complaint should have somo come down to the competitive place to air it besides the level if he has any business columns of the daily newspapers. sense. That is his personal He should be able to go to BRITISH air transport has been
told that it muať eventually In the hey-day of halberd, pike, oft. Bin. frame disappears" nightly affair. It is only when circum-udy of experts, disinterested, stances alter radically, when an mon, who will say whether or learn to fly without subsidios. and sword we were worth three into a bed which is King Farouk's emergency occurs and living not ho is paying too much rent If the Government calls for still now we are just a nuisance at the quarters are crowded and at a and request his landlord to meet higher speeds, British commer-
that Government their request for .. reconsidera-cial aviation is ready, to answers' Lifting our Wives.old filinole schoolboy, who, when promlum authority should step in and tion. The bright, and some that call. But such increased
Ws tire of being asked how last hoard of three months ago, was the weather is up there, eft 7in. For him, Eus van Droyson, to a fair return on your invest would probably be all that was It has been calculated, that i ws cap part on old shoe for the German girl of eri, fin, migat: say: "Charge this much, which times painful, light of publicity speeds will cost more money,
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