1939-03-31 — Page 15

Austin ‘7′ Dies An '8' Is Born

"Tho 'seven' is dead, long live the "eight,'" cried exclied motor traders when they were shown for the Arst time a new Austin car at the works of the company in Birmingham recently,

An event of international im- portance is the replacement of the Austin "Seven," first and most famous of the "baby" cars, by an entirely new "eight,"

Overshadowing the much-boosted "German People's car," the new Austin was wheeled Into the German Motor Show in Berlin recently,

This new Austin, the best-looking small car yet seen, is to be sold at a competitive price. The two-door four seater saloon is £128, and there are open tourer and four-door saloon models.

The new car has a four-cylinder | side-valve engine rated at 2.00 h.p.-- Annual tax £0. The chassis is of new type with orthodox spring- ing. four-speed gear-box with nynchromesh on second, third and top, Girling brakes and steel body,

an all-

and

Frontal appearance is new distinctive, the radiator mascot Herving the unusual purpose of forming the angle bonnet catch. The steering wheel is spring-spoked. The rear opening luggage compart- ment is really roomy.

The car holds the road und steers As well as any small car ever driven, and comfort, even for back-neut passengers, is excellent, Even the lights are better than average,

Maximum speed is 60 m.ph, with rently good top-gear pulling on hills. When cruising at m.p.h. clase on 60 miles to the gallon of petrol has been obtained. The brakes marvellous.

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March 31, 1939.

Advance guard of General Franco's Spanish Insurgent troops photographed when they reache

the French border at Le Perthus, on their victorious march through Catalonia, after conquering

Barcelona. Here they rabe their arms in the Nationalist salute.

"NO BAN ON THE

LOWER CLASSES"

But-Well, What Would

High Society Say?

SOS for Lifeboat

Rosslare, Co. Wexford.

Two airmen, Lt, Higgins and Lt. Quinlan, had narrow escapes when an Irish Air Force scoplane In which they were flying from Southampton to Daidonnet aerodrome, Dublin, came down in the sea near here recently, Two planes were flying in for mation, and when off Carnesore Point one of them developed engine trouble.

There was # strong south-east rough sen but Lt.

YOUTHS of about nineteen who hope one day to be British ambassadors in foreign capitals are now sending wind and

down,

in their names to a board of selection, which will meet at brought the craft safely the Civil Service Commission's offices in Burlington-

gardens, W., on the first Tuesday in May.

be received. Almost without exception they will be the Judging from previous years, about fifty names will

The

other machine circled around, but the sez was too rough for her to attempt rescue. She for sent out a wireless S.0.S. assistance and flew on. Coust watchers telephoned Rosslare

put out.

names of public schoolboys who have gone on to Oxford Harbour, and the Rosslare lifeboat or Cambridge.

No council schoolboys, no matter| how brilliant, need apply,

It is true that council schoalbaya are beating the old school tie in the examinations for nearly every other branch of the Civil Service, but they are not allowed even to reach the examination room where the ambts- |sadora-lo-be are going to sit.

all that an official of the Civil Service Commission would say to the Sunday Express

was, "The board has to discover whether the candidate is of the right person- ality and upbringing. They may possibly ask what his father does and what games the boy playя.

WASTE OF TIME

u

1

IDEALLY FITTED FOR POST

awept towards the shore ut Bally- In the meantime the plane was

trent.

Crowds un the beach saw the plane turn broadside in the surf. Waves damaged its starboard wing.

The two officers donned febells, got ready to jump, but succeeded in sending a line ashore with which, men on the beach pulled the plonel clear of the surf.

When the 3ifeboat reached the scene the officers sent a Morse iness- age stating that they wore out of danger.

They did all they could to suite. guard, the 'plane Before abandoning it. Troops were summoned from Buldonne) to dismantle it,

The board of seicction stops them. "It must be remembered that No one in Whitehall has ever quite diplomat has to m.x ou equal terms stated it in black and white, but the with the highest society. It would examination

results going back be a waste of time for a candidate scores

of years prove that the to be allowed to prepare himself for Foreign Omec and Diplomatic Ser-the written examination if he were vice are still the exclusive preserve obviously of un unsuitable type. of the sons of the upper classes.

Incre is no ban on the lower Records available for the past nine

classes.

Rather I would suggest That the reason why public school years show that not a single council

place among the hoys at Oxford and Cambriage are schoolboy had a successful candidates, although fifly- most Luccessful

that these schools and universities specialise Three vacancies were filled.

-in-preparing-for-the Diplomatic

Service examinations." Last year seven candidates, passed

the Foreign Office and

Diplo- into mutlc Service. Their schools were trative

Stowe, Charterhouse, were made. Wellington, Eton, Winchester, Rugby and Kelvin-

MYSTERY BODY

Here is the procedure which safe- guards the rigidity of the Foreign Office caste system:-

Unlike every other branch of the Civil Service where candidates must first pass a competitive examination side Academy. and then appear before a selection board, candidates for The Foreign Omice, must satisfy the selection board before they may sit for the examination..

The board of selection is a Iss- iLrious body.

It consists of about six membtrs. One or two may be Civil Service Commissioners. The rest are "high ofteils" in the Foreign Office.

All are bent on making certain that the breeding

of Britain's diplomats shall follow the hallowed traditions and not be changed by the tutroduction of less expensive ly educated pedigrees.

The questions they ask candidates

are never revealed.

Yet in the Home Civil Service Administrative Class examination, a Barry County schoolbey then at Cambridge received top marks. 'No public schoolboy was in the first!

In the Indian Civil Service test| A Nottingham high school boy, then at Cambridge, was lop; a Southend-on-Sea high school boy

was consular Service examina- | In the tion-no consul can normally rise umbassadorship — another secondary school scholar beat scores of public schoolboys,

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That was last year. In Rugby, Harrow, Eton and Winches- ter, with the help of two other big

Charity

public schools, again took all Foreign Office vacaneles.

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Yet in that year boys of working and middle-class parents swept the board the examination for the adminis- class. Forty appointments

Only one went to a public school boy. For the first time on record Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Winches- ter all failed to win a single place. Charterhouse was alone represented. Only one important concession to

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