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August 13, 1941.

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PHILIP JORDAN

she is. Al your service, your protector, one of the instru ments of final victory.

Upstairs in a sunny room are the men who conceived her and translated a set of demands into 'n mechanical drawing. A mech- anical drawing into a three- dimensional reality. "We want," suya the-Air Ministry, "now Bomber. It must be able to carry X tons of bombs for Y miles at Z miles per hour at a height of so many thousand fect. (Thousands more than into a tube; or, without

It must be able you'd think.) YET all the grace and rod

precision of a bomber is cracking it, bend a straight tube to, take off in NO many yards,

who has visited a factory where our great new bombers are made, tells in this article of some of the wonders he saw.

identity card please?" I handed it over to the commissionaire; its par- ticulara were entered in a book; someone pinned a numbered disc on the lapel of my coat, and I was free to go inside one largest aircraft factories in you wind your watch. Or, at indigestion.

And all the time you least, that is what it seems like this country.

Beneath its roofs thou to the layman who follows the doing it you would be conscious sands of men and women process from one end of the 'fac- of these strangely powerful men work eight-hour shifts to tory to the other. It is a fool. and women walking past you

A couple mory and a liking for peace, pulls out 20 SEATER BUSES AVAILABLE turn out the bombing planes proof process to start with, for with huge castings in ench

under the arms; and his pencils; calls his designers that carry destruction to it is virtually impossible for any hand, may be

incorrectly made part to find its tucked German military objectives way into the finished product, each casting looking as though together and they get on with It is never quiet. For 24 if a part is not absolutely true a derrick were needed to lift it. the job. One day the job be.. As you move towards the far comes rcal, built by hand; and hours a day, seven days a to the blue print from which it

of the achieved with the same case as until it looks like a snake with land in so many. Now be good

enough to get on with it."

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ND a middle-aged man with a face like a monk

week, huge black bombers, comes, it just won't fit into its end of the factory, sense be- from that, if they are lucky. crazy place, as clean and sweet produced but with as much care larger than anything ever place; and that's all there is to comes apparent in this hitherto comes the finished article, mass-

as a Rolls-Royce engine.

And they are efficient. There known, larger than any- For that reason it is also vir. smelling as a hospital ward.

Parts are no longer single. thing ever dreamed of in tually impossible for any part They

bolted together, is no waste, no hold-up so far as manage it. For 30 the last war, rise out of a to be made other than correctly riveted, welded. They grov, they can welter of machines to take Taking it by and large, hardly Even the inyman begins to un- years my host that day has been their place in Britain's front any really skilled labour is em derstand. A skeleton suddenly in his factory. He knows his ployed in modern aircraft pro- takes shape, has meaning..exact- workers, admires them; is some- duction. Everything is made

ly as though before your eyes n times amused by them, under- Through never-closed

on jiga. doors at one end of this It sounds easy. But think of anatomist were to assemble in stands them. They like him,

pile of too, I believe. You can their correct places n

sort of thing. ma- it for a moment. About 100,- bones lying on the table before that huge factory I saw terials stream in, gleaming 000 parts, very many of them you. Soon you would recognise if you pick the smallest bolt, the For each onc of a foot, an ankle, and then a leg, smallest plate from a machine like solid sunbeams. From different.

So it is with the modern and ask him what it does, he inded by the Hongkong Telegraph to open walls at the far end those different parts there must

first be made an indestructible bomber, soon to bristle like a knows. That knowledge brings under the provisions of the Telecommuni- the finished bombers roll model, against whose propor- semi-baid porcupine with its the bombers all the faster off bears the indication up received in out into the day, ready to tions the real thing must be concealed weapons of defence, the line.

for exactly cut. And exactly is Around the corner is a regular

Wednesday, Aug. 13, 1941.

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make the night terrible our enemies.

ветве And

By all means let us praise the the word. It will not do y spaced hiss; somewhere the men who conceive and who de- to produce, say, a strut whose electric welder is at work on sign; the boys in the back roone rivet holes are one-fiftieth fuel tanks, on oil tanks, that But remember also the boys and of an inch out of place. know no rivets. An expert girls in the front room. Their If they should be so inaccurate can weld a line of joined flanges hands make the finished job.. IT is an unreal sight, the finished product would, if it almost as quickly as you can Because of their care the bom

bers fly. ON August 11, 1940 the

for the visitor sup- held together, be immeasurably walk its length. Luftwaffe sent over 400 planes poses that he has come into weakened; for an aeroplane is. Out in the even bigger shops exactly planned that the the boys in the front room buc- neross the Channel to bomba new world whose men and so

"Thank you, sir. Your iden Portland, Dover and British women are gifted with strains and stresses that it must kle these small skeletons on to

the strength and muscles that bear are calculated to throw huge frameworks, join them to- tity disc, please." constituting shipping,

other skeletons, their weight at certain exact

The commissionaire checked gether with

out. I was back in the biggest air attack ever launched only the legendary heroes spots not half an inch, not cover them with a gleaming me

of remote antiquity can even the fiftieth of an inch, skin as lovely and tender as any world of ordinary men. against Britain up to that day; ever have possessed. They away from them,

you could Imagine. sixty of them failed to return to

are gods and goddesses in their bases, being shot down by blue overalls, British fighters. On Monday, the anniversary of that event, swarms of R.A.F. fighters on the offensive flew across the Channel several times and went hunting for German planes over

occupied France. They did not see one and not one German plane flew over Britain.

If any evidence were needed

of the rapidly growing ascend- ancy of the Royal Air Force over the Luftwaffe these facts surely provide it. It is true that a considerable section of the Luftwaffe has been diverted

And the marvel of it all is that exactitude is not achieved by muchines as delicate as, say, With ease they lift huge the sound-box of a gramophone. girders, many at a time, On the contrary, there are tools and settle them comfort, as high as twenty feet that can ing ably on their shoulders with simultaneously

GRADUALLY the gods in blue overalls are breath-

in in- Here

Photo As Clue To Crime

N. Zealand Experiment One of the most extraordinary taken is being photographs ever circulated by New Zealand police in the search for a cracksman who power- "blew and robbed a post office safe

with recently,

life into this new press half-a- giant, stirring now dozen different shapes out of dustry's vast matrix. one hand before striding half-a-dozen pieces of metal at is the nose; here the tail, through the shops to de- pressure of nearly 6,000 each complete with its observa- posit them for the next pro- pounds to the square inch. You tion panels; here the cess they must undergo. need not test the result for per- operated turret crowned

But the truth is that fect accuracy; it cannot possi- cannons. It is a frightful thing Taken by an automalle camera that is being born; but beauti- specially set up by Postal officials the ful.

a

these huge girders are hard- bly be wrong.

There are endless small ma-

the

photograph shows-a-man, gloved and ly heavier than paper, for chines as well, no bigger than Se it comes

off the frame-torch in hand, near the safe.

The shutter was released by u hld-

"trigger," unknown to they are spun from a new the sewing-machine in the, back work and stands on its own den metal, tough as steel, re- parlour. What will they do? low-pressure tyred wheels, that, crackemon, who, working with great silient and almost able to What would you like? A metal acrobat as it is, it can fold up care, left, no other clues that might defy gravity without the rod going in at one end; and into its immense belly when it reveal y Identity. aid of wings.

Sydney detectives cannot recall from the other an open mouth flies. Through the bomb doors

Some city firms in Sydney have spitting slotted screws quicker that conceal the nest in which any incident even remotely similar. Men and women so easily than you or I could chew up its eggs are stored, men could considered installing such photo-

walk two abreast.

gruphle apparatus, but it has always considered to the eastern front where they handling such apparent fried potatoes.

Goggled men with air brushes been considered an uneconomie ven-

ture, when the cost is come from their paint shops and alongside the chances of it ever being have met with heavy punish-masses is no new pheno- menon: it has startled the

hide the lovely skin with black "ared." ment from the Russian air beholder since men first dis-

"It is certainly a million-to-one OR perhaps you would like paint, so rough that it will ab- force; but this serves only to covered the uses of pumice;

to drill a dozen exactly sorb and not reflect. the light. chance," suid a Sydney detective,

The engined-wings, with emphasise the emptiness of and to this day you can, placed needle-sized holes in a the Nazi boust that

the presumably, sit outside the dozen plates before you could shining power-units resting in

Or may- them, float out to join the body. Predicted Own

Luftwaffe was capable of re-town of Naples (over which say "Jack Robinson."

tho

maining invincible no matter what

opposition. The actual position to-day is that the Nazi air force, owing firstly to the grand work of the R.A.F., and secondly through the de- mands made upon it elsewhere, has been virtually swept out of

the skies in the west.

northern France and Ger-

lie

these girders sometimes fly) be you'd like to turn a real steel Nose and tail meet; and there and watch peasants coming, down the side of Mount!

Vesuvius with what appear GRIN AND BEAR IT to be great rocks balanced! on their heads. As this new metal is to steel, so lava is to rock.

a

Yesterday the R.A.F. con- Have you ever seen tinued to rub it into the Nazis modern bomber? Some- with one of the biggest offen- thing like 100,000. different sives yet directed against parts are interlocked to many, while simultaneously the make it. Each tiny screw Russians continue to give the (some so light that you do direct 10 the extra- not even know there is one vagant German claims of resting in your palm) has a having, eliminated the Soviet part to play as important as air force, by directing heavy raids against Berlin and other the engine itself, whose German cities. The cumulative mounting is almost the only effect of these combined opera-individual part of an aero- tions against the Reich are plane that a child of four) bound to be considerable, both could not lift easily from from the point of view of the ground. material damage and in lower-

ing the morale of the German

people who have so long been the Allled raids are becoming fed with the boastful propa- more and more powerful and. that indicating ganda of Goebbels and Goering devastating, that Germany would always ultimately the acrial attacks on remain invulnerable to enemy Germany will be even moro nir attacks,

ferocious and effective than tho worst of the Luftwaffe raids on In Britain of last autumn, short, the eventual triumph of the R.A.F. and Allied air forceb is merely a question of time—a sobering thought for the most optimistic Nazi-

The fact is now gradually being forced upon the German people that there is no such a placo as a "safe" area in the Rolch or in any of the occupled territory in the west. Equally terrifying is the knowledge that

SUM SUBURBAN

Death

By Lichty Harrogate astrological conference

"Have you an appointment?~~~I'm busy!

Mr Tom Mawby Cole who told the that the stars indicated that "events Just staggering" would happen was unconsciously predicting his

from

a Nazi bomb which

Own

sed many casuallies at an all-

⚫session of the Group for Sacrifice and Service, whose meetings.

take

moon.

place on the night of the full

"The meating was planted to run from 1 a.m. to 5.15. aam, and he had foretold that a staggering" arrange- ment of the planets would occur at 19 seconds past 5.16, very near to the time when he died.

Many people tried to read into this a prophecy of Rudolf Hess's arrival in the country a few hours before Mr Cole's death.

Belgians Help Britons

The existence of a secret organisa- tion in Belgium formed to ald British soldiers was revealed when Mr. A. F Aveling, British Charge d'Astaires In- Belgium, called on M. Pierlot, Bol glan Prime Minister, to express the thanks of the British Government. for the gallant action of 14 Belgians Is sheltering British subjects for seven months.

TWO

of the Belgions, Edgard Lefebre and Marie Guerin, were con- demned to death by a German court martial in April, and eight women and four men were gaoled as secon“ sories.

The Britons hid in the woods and the Belgians shared their meagre. rations with" thèm,