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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 13, 1939.

SITTING-ROOM-BUILT

PLANE

Flying At Small Car Cost

IN the sitting-room of his home in Magpic Hall Road, Luton, Chatham, Mr. William Mason, a metal worker at Messrs. Shorts' neronautical works at Rochester, is-build- ing an acroplane,

The machine, Mr. Mason said to the News Chronicle, is being built to orthodox design. It will be 19ft. in length and 23ft. wide when the wings are expanded, and is to be named Luton Minor.

be towed behind a car.

"I am building the machine," Mr. Mason said, "so that it can

"On reaching the aerodrome it can be assembled for flight in five minutes, and at the conclusion of the flight dismantled in five minutes before being towed home..

"The machine, when folded, will be less than eight feet in width. It will be fitted with a 40 h.p, engine and is expected to fly a distance of 300 miles.

"It should cost no more than a small car to run," Mr. Mason added.

Mr. Mnson THE PROVED

· constructing they machine in his spare time.

The elevator, tall planes and rudder are complete. The wings are ready

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The finished parta Mir, Mason stores under the rafters of his house and to facilitate access park of the ceiling has been eat away over the staircase. Mr. Mason will first assemble the

machine on the lawn at the rear of his house. He expects 1 will be at least two months before he is ready to do this, but to accommodate the nuchine he has already built a shed at the bottom of his garden.

MANY HOBBIES

Mr. Mason, who in 40, took up (flying about 12 months ago, and received instruction at West Malling Flying School.

He took his "A" Bicence last July, und is now a member of West Malling Air Club. He is also a civil air guard pilot,

He is a man with many hobbles. On the walls of the sitting-room,

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Once In 158,000,000,000 Doals

NEW YORK. Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Cassidy, Mrs. Coolzer and Mrs. Har- din, playing in a Bridge tour- nament at the Country Club, Borkoloy, California, pickod up their cards after a doal and simultaneously turned pale.

"I have 13 hearts," stam- mered Mrs. Johnson.

"hava 13' clubs," an- nounced Mrs. Cassidy,

"I have 13 diamonds,' hoarsely whispered Mrs. Gool-

xor.

Mrs. Hardin laughed wildly. and called seven spades. Ai the other throw in their hands she recorded a non- vulnerable grand slam that notted hor 1,510 points.

Statisticians hord say the four women took part in an ovent which occurs once in 158,000,000,000 deals.

Pier Dance For First

Bride For 25 Years

TO MARRY in the bachelor village of Totescore, Isle Skye, is no ordinary matrimonial adventure.

Mrs. Mary Macdonald, first bride there for 25 years, who arrived at Glasgow recently with her shepherd husband for a week's honeymoon, had already lived 24 exciting hours.

After the marriage they attended married because of lack of ronds an all-night wedding party at her and the dimeulty gelling food, to home. She was carried on her hus- the houses, have, been heartened by band's back to their two-roomed col-the news that the Department of tage in the roadless village, and then Agriculture has granted £500 for at 8 a.m. began the all-day journey to new ronds in Skye. Glasgow.

It is believed that wedding bells BRIDESMAID'S SONG {will now be more famillar music In Without going to bed the young the island, couple left for Portree, accompanied by the bridesmaid, Nurse Gillies, and

the best man, who came to give them Boy Whittles Trunk

good send-off.

As the boat was about to leave

Orono, Me.

which he uses us workshop, are members of the wedding party danced Six-year-old Edward King knows some excellent pil paintings from his on the pier and the bridesmaid sang what to do in an emergency. Find- own brush,

In Gaelic the Totescore bachelors Ing himself locked in the trunk of (song, which she composed for the the family automobile, he wasted no

occasion.

time in idle shouting. Instead he

He also indulges in amateur cinema pictures la X-roy and conjuring, and is a student of astronomy,

The bachelors of Totescore-now whittled for three hours with his He is a keen spiritualist and his there are only 13 who complained Jack-knife, cutting a hole through wife is a medium.

recently that they were unable to get the trunk near the lock.

The Major flies at ease

THE Major is not new to the travel game-

he has played

it in all parts of the world and knows the ropes. That is why

when home-leave comes you will find him flying back to

England with Imperial Airways. He gets longer at home.

He has the comforts of his West-end club. Good meals, hotel

accommodation at night stops, and even tips are included

in his fare. The journey, so tedious in his subaltern days,

seems all too short

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