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THE HONGKONG, TE LEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1988.

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DISCUSSION as to the desira- bility of British railways

If you are going home on leave, adopting all-steel coaches for this must interest you.

You can arrange to stop ashore at home and drive away in your own Vauxhall.

passenger trains will again be raised by Col. Mount's findings on the Castlecary railway disa- ster.

Safety On The Railways?

By KENNETH CANTLIE

"CUSHION" DEVICES

In Belgium steel cars have six. feet at each end specially design- ed to crush (without telescoping) in a collision, thus not only deadening the impact, but po en body. So long as the frames of viding the rear of the train with adjacent carriages can be kept an ever-increasing stopping dis- in horizontal line in a collision, tance. When combined with a. telescoping soldom occurs, unless luggage-van next the engine the velocity is great enough to

buckle the frames. But should specially designed to telescope or crush in a collision, this one underframe be raised high proves an almost idéal arrange- enough to clear its neighbour, it ment, though it is note-worthy Agitation in favour of such

will smash through the wooden that the Americans, who are, of body.

course, by far the largest users We assist you in this connection a change in British practice has

Schemes to prevent this over- of steel coaches have never con- without any trouble or complica- arisen after each of the serious tion to yourself

But is this riding have been many. Stronger sidered the adoption of these re- delivered accidents in recent years when does telescoping.

buffers, steel sheathing, "buck- finements worth while. to you at home and subsequently telescoping or the shattering of actually so?

eye" American cuplers with Whatever the merits of all- in I-tongkong.

coaches has occurred.

STOPPING AT 40 M.P.H. draught-gear and Pullman vesti- steet coaches, however, their im- But on each occasion counter-

Let us take a wider view, for bules--even special corrugations mediate introduction on a large arguments have been advanced in railway work one is apt to on the coach-ends have all been scale is impracticable in this

inhibi- adopted at various times, and which aither claimed categori- have Victorian mental

country. all have been of some assistance, Not only would the cost of re- cally that all-steel cars were, in tions. Hongkong Hotel practice, no safer than wooden A speed of a mile a minute, though none has proved a cer- placing wood by steel coaches in

coaches, or that modern British still thought of with a certain tain preventive.

It would be as well to realise any short term of years impose a great burden on the railways' carriages were already composed unconscious awe by most rail-

waymen, is not, in fact, a high that these devices ave failed to revenue, but there are additional mainly of steel, and that, when speed. It is only half as fast check overriding and to concen- weighty objections such as the provided with "buck-eye"

re- disturbance of the labour market Sir Malcolm Campbell's trate on avoiding serious

by the disminsul of railway car- other strong American-type motor-boat, and only one-fifth sults from telescoping.

The end of the coach bodies penters, and their replacement couplers and draught-gear, were as fast as Captain Eyston's car.

And if objection is raised that must be sufficiently strong to by platers, steel-pressors, wel- perfectly satisfactory.

by ders and riveters at a time when these are racing speeds, let it resist being cut through

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Hongkong Telegraph. A GRIM ALTERNATIVE be said that the steam locomo- frames of neighbouring coaches, such classes of labour are in

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It has been said by responsible tive has never in any circum- This means either the adoption great demand for armaments. reached Campbell's of all-steel bodies or steel rein- The delay in installing suitable

and THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938.

persons that telescoping of car speed. It is difficult for rail- forcement of the wooden bodies. manufacturing

repair in use are ringes in a collision is, in certain waymen to realise that their Both

other machinery would also, for the circumstances, an actual bless- railways which, 10 years ago, countries, and are quite practi- same reason, be considerable, MAKING A STAND

the fastest, re now cable.

and the diversion of labour would ing. By the Lelescoping of two were

of Those who believe in tele- be unjustifiable. The visit of His Majesty the or more carriages the remainder actually the slowest form

Therefore, though the change King, together with his Queen, of the train is allowed consider modern transport, in so far as scoping point to a recent colli-

Batersen, where maximum speeds are concerned. sion at

two to steel cars will probably come to France, at this particularly ably more distance in which to As to a mile a minute, any electric trains met on a bridge in time, it can only be by degrees troubled period of the world's come to a stop, thua lessening family car in reasonable condi- and had they been of steel stock, and on a definite programme. history, should serve both as an the shock to passengers not in tion can attain it at any time. might, they say, have been The continuance of wood-bodied It is Yet, it should be remarked, none bounced over the parapet. The coaches being thus inevitable assurance to those who still love the telescoped vehicles.

some years, the question and believe in the democratic the opinion of this school of of the recent railway collisions absorption of the momentum for

occurred at a speed as high as of the second train by telescop- arises whether vehicles now in this.

ing was, they hold, inevitable use can be improved by rein- principles and as a warning to thought that were the

Compare the rutes of road and beneficial.

forcement and other means to those who might be tempted to train composed of non-telescop-

with the speed at There are two answers to this. resist telescoping. attempt the destruction of the ing stock the sudden stoppage transport institutions demoerney has been at such pains to erect.

whole

of the train would fling passen- Swanley Junction, Kent, last One is that with steel stock the the second train gers from their seats, injuring June, where a railway collision energy of

passengers might have been expended in or killing them. The alterna- occurred and four Lives, according to these au were killed. The train entered pushing the first train along the a siding at not more than 40 track; the second is that there miles an hour and had an ex- is no need to make steel stock thorities, are death for a or injuries (and risk of death) cellent "cushion" in the form of rigid from end to end. for many.

two empty carriages and a

This seems

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REINFORCED STOCK

It can be done, and it is not a matter of great difficulty or ex- pense. In other countries the device employed consists of two

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"In the world's present state of unrest, grent obligations still lie on the two nations, (British and French) both equally interested in human progress,'

an unnecessarily wagon which, being crushed, declared M. Lebrun, the French President, speaking at a dinner gloomy view of the position. In Kave the train a comparatively

smooth stop in a distance of TALES OUT OF SCHOOL States, where all- given to Their Majesties at the the United

roughly, 125ft. steel stock has been standard

But this stopping rate is less COUNTRY school was visited by and to him the teacher pointed, say- 1. Elysee.

one for some time, experience shows than normal motor-car stopping!

of the managers, n maning, "What do you think?" She was And the King replied: "We

Indeed, if a car driver with a pompous air. He ventured to surprised to receive the answer. "It Chater Road. are proud of this political faith that while casualties still occur rates.

which tenches that you can't keep a good which we share with other great in collisions, their number has took as long as this to come to put some questions, among

ment?" When

though he would consider that his turned to the one answered, he

** P&GOWN PYRSKONNASHMANSAnations, but we fully realise that been much reduced as a conse- & stand from 40 miles an hour, mots the Sixth Command-man down."

quence of abolishing wood- brakes needed adjusting.

Yet suggest that he had found them out. A teacher was in the habit of telescoping occurred because the He tried again. "Come, what Com- teaving messages for the caretaker bodied coaches,

mandment did Cain break when he written on the blockboard ot the At one time, so strong leading end of the first coach killed Abel? Who can tell me?"

close of the day's work. One even- One scholar beckoned to the teacher Ing the Janitor saw on the board. the prejudice of the American was lifted with the tender, thus

and and whispered something to her. "Find the greatest

de- travelling public against travel depressing the rear end, ling in wood-bodied cars, that allowing the heavy steel under-The visitor demanded to know what nominator." test common

the child had said, and the teacher that thing

got lost again?" frame of the second coach to told him. "The child paid to me that the remaining cars of that type cut through the wood body of there were no Commandments when been dealing with the animal king These messages have rung had to be camouflaged with ex- the first. around the world in the ears

ternal steel sheeting in order to of democratic peoples, for there can be no doubt that relieve the acute shortage

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"Please it's me!"

another method. "Tommy, to try what would you say if I were to come to school with hands so black. Would you not bg disgusted?" Tammy was equal to the occasion, for he replied, "Please, mum, I

"Now, Johnny." sald a teacher, "If you had six pennics and Charlie the domestic animals but one. What had four, and you took his and added its name?" When only silence what would that greeted her, she sought to help them There

them to yours,

out. "What, don't you know? It the Anglo-French combination

make?" The answer came in one has bristly hair, likes the dirt, and is doubt whatever that public This accident was a perfect word:-"Trouble." provides the greatest potential

United States demonstration of the reason for A class had been hearing about fond of getting into the mud." Then defensive power for freedom opinion in the

Modern British Jonah and the whale, and the teacher a small boy raised his hand. "Well!" in this age.

would never tolerate any pro- telescoping. And believers |

asked, "what does this story teach to the wood carriages consist of a steel un- us? There was a boy who seemed A boy often went to school with in freedom look more and more posal to revert

derframe surmounted by a wood- to have a bright idea in the mind and punishments, the teacher thought dirty hands. After many rebukes to Britain and France. That bodied stock of past days. the leaders of these

great What is a collision? In es- states-whose past policies sence simply the sudden starting have sometimes

the or stopping of a train. If a train travelling at a mile a faith of even their most stalwart

minute strikes either another } frien is should have made an train or some stationary object, occasion at this time to reaffirm it may stop in us short a dis- their determination to defend tance as 50ft instead of the their highest principles, is very normal 700ft or 800ft. significant. It may be a move Those who oppose the rigid calculated

re-establish all-steel car contend that this damaged faith,

salve sudden stoppage would injure to the wounded pride of de-and kill more passengers than moerney and the new political

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belief which the League of universal conflict to satisfy an Nations represented. And it insatiable ambition, the words of may mean that the "episode" of the British Sovereign and the Ethiopia and the "incident" in President of France should be China, which so hurt the taken to heart. For these two prestige of all nations pledged to leaders represent the soul of the idea of collective security, democracy, and their unity in will ultimately be remedied this cause makes them a mighty under the guidance of the states force to reckon with. Their whom King George and Presi-pcopies know their obligations. dent Lebrun represent. But And though the cynic will say whatever its intention it pro- they will not risc except to pro- vides hope for those who do not tect some vital portion of their wish to see the world perpetually own democratic body, it appears at war in defence of principles more likely that they have re- or possessions.

treated boforo armed diplomacy As for those who may contom-as far as they intend, and that plate some dangerous enterprise] where they now stand they will actenisanacacionesanante against a neighbour, risking brace themselves.

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The had entered into the spirit of it, and inquired, "Have you any nice bananas to-day?" "Yes, some splen- did once at three halipence each." "Well, sald the boy, I will take a dozen of them." Then, pushing his hand down into his pocket 'as if to find the money, he said, “And how much will that be?"

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