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The

Guilty Escape?

OES our system of dealing with those suspected

of crime offer undue chances that the guilty may he acquitted?

This is a question that needs to be faced at the present time. For there in such an increase in erime that, not only are our prisons full, but cells have to be chared a bad state of affairs.

As a nation we are justifiably proud that our system of trial makes the conviction of the Innocent extremely unlikely. But is our system doing all that can reason- ably be expected to convict the guilty?

After 15 years' practical, experience. I unhesitatingly say NO. I have reluctantly come to believe that those responsible for prosecutions are unduly hampered, with the result that either guilly people are not charged, or, If charged, too many of the guilly are acquitted.

cite as an example

example the Judges Rules that in 1912 as a guide to the

police Theso

cso Rules have

were

handling of suspects.

their enlarged

mind

since that date, and in their present form they must be difcult to enforce. Thus the. Rules prevent the cross-examination of a

when the police have made up their

to bet

A charge. There is

to much reason in this. The suspect has at this stage to be cautioned that he is not obliged to say anything, and that what he says may be given in **........................** evidence at his frial. But until this stage is reached "there is no objee- tton" to a police officer "putting

by CLAUD

MULLINS questions."

Secrets of the world's biggest air liner

THE giant floors of the largest hangar in the

world were opened by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. at Filton, a fortnight ago, and into the open was towed the 130-ton Brabazon I., the largest air-liner yet built.

She will make her maiden flight in November.

Recently at the factory n which she has been built I spent fascinating hours hear- ing the story of the birth and development of the Brabazon.

I talked in particular with Mr A. E. Russell, the designer, leader of a team of nearly 1,500 non engaged solely on the pro-

ject.

Mr Russell, now 44, joined. the company in 1925.

He told me how, back in 1942; the Bristol Company put to the Air Staff proposals for a giant bomber, almost exactly the size and shape as the present Brabazon, capable of carrying from 30 to 40 tons of bombs over a still-uir range of 5,000 miles.

Barne

Project shelved As the

course of the war changed, the project was

shelved.

the

Then, when the Brabazon Committee was set up to plan post-war development of air liners, it asked the company to start preliminary design work in the spring of 1943.

BY SQUADRON LEADER W. SIMPSON, D.F.C.

Some idea of the care that has to be taken all over the glant can be auged from the fact that allowance is made for a 4-inch expansiun

span, with a body and tail in air- proportion. And 50 un craft vastly greater in size than anything attempted before by

and contraction of the 177-foot long British industry was born. fuselage at the temperature ranges This produced problems of de- it will meet in flight; and that the sign that had never arisen before. pressurisation requirements only

Every out of the thousands of allow a leakage equivalent to

of the glant had

square inch. component parts to be designed for Immense strength without too much weight, and testert thoroughly before being brought to final form.

..

A storm threatened when it was learned in the old village of Chari- ton, on the edge of the nirileld that the houses must disappear in order that the runway could be made.

But in the end the Bristol Com-

pany bought the extra land it need ed, knocked down the 30 houses, cut through the £200,000 Bristol- Gloucester by-pass road, rehoused the villagers at Patch way-all with hardly any serious opposition.

Weighs 290,000 lb. BUT

one

Let me

The power-operated controls are

That the police have been able to carry out these orders is a great tribute to thelr.common sense. But to me it fins long seumed strange that this Rule has caused no little trouble.

THE CAUTION

As an Individual, and not as a mugistrate, I once knew of a ense where a crime had been com- who mitted in a village by a man hind with him n dog of a somewhat rare breed. Which side of the line was the question whether the suspect had a dog of this kind? knew The moment that the police that the suspected man had such a dost. 1.4 they had believed, a charge was sure to be made, as in fnct it was.

The man was in fact charged, convicted. and punished, but whether he was cautioned before

this question ebou! the dog was put, I do not know. Nor do I know whether by the Judges' Rules a caution should have been given.

a new thing for British aircraft- Another point is that if a suspect they have to bo used because the "wishes to volunteer any state- force which the arms and legs. ofment, the usual caution should be human pilota can exert would not administered." be nuficient to overcome the weight of the enormous control surfaces

which guide the aircraft.

The great hall THE great assembly hall, in which the liner lins been bullt, is longer than the Queen Mary or the Houses of Parliament,

three- and almost the height of Nelson's quarters Column.

It is 1,052 feet wide. 83ft, up to RUT all figures connected with the the eaves, and 117ft. to the apex of the root, has a window in one wall Brabazon are fantastic. quote a few more:-

1,045ft. long and 50ft high, a floor area of 71⁄2 acres (with a 6 acre the concrete apron outside) and biggest door in the world-1,045ft. by 05ft. Dins., worked by electricity.

Wing area 5,317 square foot. Diameter of fuselage 101t. Bins. (comparable to London

1

tube tunnel).

Span of tall plane 76ft., height above rudder 50ft.

Maximum thickness of wing oft. fins

All out weight 200,000lb,

Engines, eight of more than 2,500 h.p each coupled together in pairs. Full fuel lond 30,000 gallons. Capacity of fuselage 25,000 cubic

Farms disappeared

fect farms disappeared completely

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as well as the 17th and 18th cen-

A liner, able to carry a tury collages, the village inn, hall hundred passengers in luxury and post office,

Charlton will go down in history non-stop over, the 8,200 miles between London and New York as the first village of Britain ever

to be blotted out in favour was the airliner. in about ten hours, objective.

of an

The special runway meant cx- cavating 250,000,000 tons of earth and using 250,000 tons of filling cost- ing about £0,000,000.

the

und

The prototypo was called the "Brabazon," in honour of Lord Brabazon, chairman of the

All kinds of special tools and committee and holder of Pilot's equipment had to be evolved for Licence No 1.

the steady development of For two

years there were Brabazon.

Onc discussions as to where the rain model of the main members

was a special stress Brabazon should be built. In

оп to from balances, suspended 1946 it was agreed that Filton of the aircraft, riked together and home of HAPPY SONGS,

the manufacturers which weights could be placed at IN THE BIG, NEW MUSICAL HIT OF THE SEASON! of both the engine and the air- various positions to represent the frame--was the most suitable different kinds of loads the aircraft place.

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for a runway.

would carry.

ELS

LSEWHERE at Bristol there is

There is a cranage system CP able of lifting a 10-ton load any where over the erecting bay: and nearly 12,000 tons of cement and 8,750 tons of steel have been devoted to the construction of the assembly

hall and aprons.

This is the most doubtful of all the nine rules. If a man is about to admit his offence and to explain the circumstances in which it was committed, why should he not be

without permitted to do so,

апу from the police? The warning caution, often administered as soon as a suspect begins to talk, is apt to cause him to be silent.

I doubt whether this rule is wise or necessary. It a man 15 gulity and wants to say so, why prevent him?

DANGER TO PUBLIC Great importance is attached to this Rule by defending barristers and solicitors.

When at a trial the police begin words evidence the to give In spoken by the defendant, defending counsel sometimes rises to object to this evidence. The jury is sent question of court, and the out whether a caution was given by the police at the right time is tried be- fore the judge alone. But, in my view, the time is overdue when the necessity for this caution should be investigated.

No

tha one wishes to lower

Justice. But standards of English an examination "of-zame of these Judges' Rules is urgent. Failure to constitutes charge a guilty person

Such an a danger to the public. offender may thus come to believe fear of the that ho need have no of police. The result may be further suffering by crimes and further innocent people.

One day in November a large, dark man with a ruddy complexion, Blu Pegg, will become the man of the moment.

Inside there are nearly 50 miles of electric cable carrying a 200 volt

For to A. J. ("B}') Pegg, aged A.C. main supply through the air- 43, who has been flying for the last craft, and almost as many miles of 23 years and is now chief test pilot pipes full of fuel under hydraulle of the company, has been given pressure, used to work the units the

responsibility enormous that raise and lower the wheels and taking the Brabazon off the ground

for the first time. operate the controls.

Any Welshmen In

By J. W. TAYLOR

ELTIC national fervour has been fair P.G." Spelled out It raised to new heights in resist- well, junge for yourselves:

20

YSILIOGOGOGOCH.

The House?

reads

Church of-St-Mary-in-a-hollow- New Zealand of white hazel-near a rapid-

the

to

All this came out after we had wrestled for what seemed hours in our pronunciation efforts to get phone call through to a

Welsh cor- respondent and we were only con- LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGO- nected just before our tongue was This whole arrangement was made in the New Zealand claim that the

GARYCHWYRNDRODWLLLLANT- curling round the Adam's Apple for

the last time. He is called Evans. name Is not as long as their An enormous assembly han to shudder violently and the reac-noted Welsh "Llanfair P.G." place-

For once we found Evans inarti- gar had to be bullt, and the tions of the skeleton model record-Taumatawhak-etcetern," which re-

fers to a small hill near the town- And people who ought to know culate when we questioned him in entire village of Charlton ed and compared.

ship of Perongahnu, Hawke's Bay.

our best Welsh accent about knocked down to, make room Tosting tent

claim. Indeed The New Zealanders say that the say that it means: hill formerly had a 28-leiter Maori

Hoodness, he was so scandalised that name, but that

more letters have the been added to it in an award by whirlpool-and-near-to-St Tysillo's he could but utter little beyond a series of high-pitched "Indeed-to- their

which Church-near-a-red-cave. Geographic Board,

goodnesses," beats the best Wales can do. Indeed that equipment

to goodness, they claim this to be Now, the Welsh got busy on their We did gather from Evans, who

comptometers and rejoiced to

simply drips in. Welsh lore, that his- the longest place-name in the world. Here is the new Maori mouthful that the Maori name a mere 57 letters, tory of the language had long since the resembles what came out of

compared to the 50 in the "Llanfair-

proved that every letter in inotype machine after the office cat whats-its-name." But the New Zea

Innders made exhaustive surveys of Welsh name-place (see above) was had run over the keys:

Welsh lore and came to the conclu- Justified and necessary-long before TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANG- alon that one "g" and ane "0" the Maori tongue-twister (see nisa

above) became In the first place AKGAUAUOTAMATEAFOKAIWH- about a third the way from the bee mere 20-letter word a Welsh child.

name were Kinning of the Welsh ENUAKITANATAHU,

superfluous. These, they claimed, would normally mouth in babyhood. Perhaps you would care to com- should by rights be eliminated, thus "LLANFAIR. P.G."......or.. pare it to the noted phonetic exer- giving their Maori masterpiece of "TAUMATAWHAK-electora?" cise necessary to name the North tonsorial acrobatics the title of the Wales village, commonly abbreviat- world's longest name-place, so long ed (mereffully, we think) to "Llan- held by the Welsh.

great green canvas tent which The vast size of the Braba-

contains the nose structure of of wing- Brabazon. zon, with its 230ft. span, and its 177ft. long fuse- This is the testing place of the lage, is due to the fact that it pressurisation had to be built around eight guarantees normal conditions in the powerful engines in such a way cabin when the air outside is cold,

thin, and deficient in oxygen as to ensure the specified range. Into this air is pumped at three at a high cruising speed. or more times the pressure normally a watchful eye is Engines "buried' required, and

rivets. THE only way to do this was There are roughly 1,500,000 to bury the engines com- rivets to pop in the Brabazon,

the wings. plotely within the thickness of arranged in rows totalling 11 miles long, holding together 30,000 square feet of sheet duralumin rolled out This meant building wings in special

tho lengths, covering of unusual thickness and great body and wings.

NANCY

YOU NEVER CALL ME UP ANY MORE, SLUGGO

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