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The

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by SIDNEY RODIN

ITH proud fanfare, the British Govern- ment welcomed the landing, on the Thames, on May 5, of a 35-ton Solent flying boat to mark the 30th anniversary of British com- mercial aviation.

The Government was

| naturally and understand-

ably proud.

For this is an aircraft ! made in a nationalised fac-

THE SOLENT, on the Thaman

Me Short was mnde honorary

tory-Short Brothers, who uife president, but they tell me make Solenta, were taken at Rochester over in 1943-to run on a nationalised air line.

Important personages were invited to be present when the aircraft was named the City of London.

that he has not been near the workshops he made famous since the day of the takeover.

He now farms in Cornwall, and in his leisure gets satis- faction in reading of the exploits of his machines in many theatres of wor,

If be had any feelings about Among the company were not being at the Thames ceru the deputy-chairman of mony--which I do not know B.O.A.C. and other top. he has one consolation. White ranking bureaucrats as well hall may have forgotten him, but

Xochester remembered. the Government nomi-The city to which his energies nees who are now running brought unprecedented prosper Shorts.

lly made him a freeman recent ly. Only five other freemen have ever been chosen by the city.

What did Rochester remem- ber? Not just his generosity, to bered a great man.

remem the townsfolk. They

Youngest of four sons of a

*

:

they ask

ARTISTS

with Wings

THE other

By SYDNEY REDWOOD

afternoon, is in name only. For the second

London, four officers and timo in ono. generation, the 100 men wearing red wartime merger with the re- boreis ond parachute ·wingsgular forces had all but ex- formed a guard of honour outinguished the individuality of side Burlington House as HRH this famous. volunteer unit. the Duke of Gloucester arrived ou for the private view of

All but, for, when, the Ter

this

Year's Academy exhibition, ritorini. Army was revived in

were men of the 21st the summer of 1947, the Artists

·bo

Special Air Service Regiment were once again--chpaen - (Artists) T. A, better known role which they were eminen bafore the war as the "Artists qu

qualified to discharge. They Rifles," and their presence, were to

"married" to outside Burlington House Britain's youngest, and .,J marked the resumption, after a modern art of warfare," the lappe of ten years of a tradi- Special Air Service Regiment. tlon, which dates back nearly a The combination of old trea whole century.

tions and modern methoda furn out-to

-to have been in mart When the Artists were first imaginative choice, The two formed in 1859, the link be regiments have a great deal in tween the Regiment and the common: both were created .by, Royal Academy

indeed small groups of determined”.

4

very close. Around the middle and enterprising men in answer of the last century, when rela- to a specific challenge and both tions between England and pride themselves on producing France were somewhat strained leaders possessed of initiative. an appeal

went out to the self-reliance and sound judg- country for volunteers to form tent. themselves. into bodies of

trained soldiers ready to defend BEHIND ENEMY

the country in the event of war.

Professional groups all over the Many of the exploits of the country responded to the ap- Special Air Service Regiment

during the

lato war peal and a young London art: (SAS)

have Sterling, student, one Edward

become legendary. and fogether with a group of artist sound like episodes out of the friends conceived the idea of life of the Scarlet Pimpernel.. forming

regiment of painters. In the desert campaign, the operated behind. the sculptors, actors and musicians. SAS

encouragement from the enemy lines for weeks.on end,

destroying thorities and much help from

the Royal Academy, he laid the ground,

•

aircraft on the

attack convoys and

of many other ways.

foundations

of what was to proving their pulsance value in become and remain one Britain's most famous ritorial units.

+

members

Ter-

record and to the

sana

Soon after

the Regiment's formation, two specialised: Among

the wings were formed. One, the That same year Shorts moved

(909), such Special Boat Service to Rochester, and established the original unit numbered

famous men as Lord Bury, wherever the enemy coust· ar works which were to give em- Thomas Hughes, J. E. Millal inland waterways offered op ployment to 42,000.

Arthur Lewis, George Caley portunities for successful raid-

(who ing Before he died in 1917 forace and Frederick Leighton

The exploits of the SBS Short had created. the Arst afterwards became Lord Leigh range from the Aegean and the torpedo bomber, conceived by ton and was for many years Adriatle down to Burma and Admiral Sir Murray Sueter, and Colonel of the Regiment) In the Indian Ocean. had seen his seaplanes help drive the course of time, the range The other wing of the SAN, the Germans out of Tanganyika. of membership widened, and after performing a number of

tho Artists went

to airborne and seaborne raida' in Oswald now became the air- when

Franco in 1914, they were fully various parts of Sielly and craft genius of the Arm.

returned to England Iri 1010, he revolutionised representative of all professions Italy,

and every walk of life

whence they were dropped, to- aeronautical science by designing an

gether with their jeeps and the Silver Streak, the first all- metal aeroplane with stressed BATTLE HONOURS light guns, to assist the parti

In France, Belgium and skin construction in which the main stresses were taken by the There followed a distinguish- Holland.

the 21st Special Air metal skin of the fuselage, and led war

the iwo Regiment. struts.

which it had won in the South branche This construction is standard] African campaign, they added forces are once more reunited. with all aircraft manufacturers] such famous names as Past Every Tuesday evening,in today.

chandasic,

the Somme. their HQ near Euston Station, Bapaume. the Hindenburg HIS SEAPLANES ·

Tine manders and the pure ouicers and men foregather from overy corner of London. News THE STRONGEST to Mons. While these honours comers to the regiment --are Sir Francis) McClean, and their

were being won

abroad, the taught wespans, drive Jeeps to handle the Regiment's secand

Moore- for young

Four years later he devised a Regiment's home establishment special Brabazon (now Lord Brabazon), superior type of hull bottom in the United Kingdom carried over rough Country paddie who made the first circular mile which made his seaplanes the on with its vital If unspec. canoes in strong tides; and night in Britain, returning to the strongest of all.

Eustace died in 1931 and Os.tacular, task of training potens and compass. Old hands also

navigate with the

map help of place whence he took off.

wald was alone. Financial suce tial officers for the Expedition-

have an opportunCourse

of refresh- The Shorts also made. six now cess did not come to him, despite ary Force.

ing their aircraft for the Wrights, of im- incredibly hard work, until 1935, After the war, the Artists in parachuting are held in the proved design, at £200 each,

when Imperial Alfways ordered 20 of his flying boats.

were reformed and embodied summer at a training establish

Ter- ment In the Home Counties, the newly-created Oswald had left school at 12. Until 1938, not one member offin.

experienced parachutists His draughtsmanship was self- the Short family had received a vitorial Army where they cou and taught after studying drawings dividend on his shareholding Unued to function, tintil the do "refresher jumps out of of balloons in the Patent Office and the firm had been in such outbreak of the Second World balloon in a London park In Chancery-lane.

financial straite that Oswald had | War, AS an officer-producing

SUMMER CAMP

wings and not by girders and Regiment's first battle. honourse of this highly mobile

'Oswald Shor

to sign over all his personal in unit. In 1940, however, once

When

Oswald Short was wherever their

Short exercises are held pa most week-ends, and in the

THE PRODUCT OF HIS GENIUS But the Government did not appear to have invited the one man above all others who had Sunderland engineer who died In 1914 the Short brother vestments to secure an over all its members had been.pp- the most right to be there-06- poor, Oswald, at the age of gave, the world its first prae-

pointed to commissiou year-old Mr Oswald Short, last eight, first fired his imagination ticable seaplane. Naval plots draft from the bank.

services of the Short-brothers, and one with aerial iraval by reading the came down to fly it, admills forced to relinquish the managing required, the Regiment went summer the entire unit allende of Britain's routeri ploneers in Greek legend, "The Capture of were amazed,

and thus was directorship, the Arm had into suspended animation and camp for ten days. Last year, the air.

Pegasus."

established the Naval Air Ser- £5,000,000 capital

at the end of the war, on

VJ-simo trained in Jeeps on the Oswald Short Invented the

In 1898 he made his first vice Flying School, forerunner

-~~-{London Express Service), day, the Artists as such existed Devon moors, others practised sak dapat @canoeing off the Cornish coast, modern flying boat. With his balloon ascent with bis brother of the Fleet Air Arm. own hands and brain he con- who went up in

Eustace. Today, there is no óne,

while yet another party scalogi ciffe: witr Commando troops trolled the design of all succeed-

him. Ing Short machines right up to

near Plymouth.; } In the winter, 1043, when the firm, of which he escaped-death when his balloon A few years later he narrowly

small parties of officers, and was managing director and

men attend mountain; warfara largest shareholder, was wiped collapsed at 8,300 feet over

and skiing courses with the Epping Forest and he pancaked private enterprise.

Regular Army in Austria The Solent, which landed in 4000 feet to earth with the heart of London, was as fabric acting as a gigantic, sway. much the product of his genius ing parachute.

cut as

as its forerunner in which he allghted on the Thomas opposite the Houses of Parlament 21 years ago, when his firm was making omnibus bodies to keep going.

a cost.

SHAREHOLDERS BOUGHT OUT

balloon before)

PATENTED' AN. IMPROVED VALVE

the

It was in character that he immediately diagnosed the fault

Bevan makes

it tough for Truman

By FREDERICK COOK

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So there!

archit

NEW YORK. (£2500) to anyone who could more before the year's output is The umil's numbers are DEPORTS from London of a tell the Government where to disposed of dete

rapidly mounting, and in its Washington

says ita

would ranks are former members not year's experience of Bacial- find a lode holding 20 tons of leed medicine are making things 20 per cent uranium oxide be cheaper new to pour kere only of the Army, but also of

the mountains of hard for supporters of President equivalent" from a new domerile sens over

TOTCO Truman's compulsory health in- source. No lakers. The offer is potatoes the Government, own the Royal Navy, the Royel Al

and and burn them......

Marine. surance programme, and still open. »

pow Some of Prominently displayed in the

serving is NCO's and troopers in the Regiment previously field rank in their own, In the mess, where rank

miniscing

ing of wartime tales no concern, there is much

The story of as of the BAS, is

a velve torn from ita seating... American' newspapers, and used at the New York headquarters

and within year had patented an improved valve which he sold

to the War Office,

·After making

all

they are worth by

on the En

ha

Packages full of rocks arrive.

Tourists to Britain of the Atomic Energy, Com

cannot get berths the Trumain scheme, are stories mission at the rate of 15 a day.

They have come in jam fard, HIS summer's crush Are from Britain indicating that the paper The Government took over balloons for advertisers, Horan, "free" medical scheme is proving paper parcels, whisky bottles, Atlantle shipping linen is Short Brothers at the height of the eldest brother, Eustace, and far from free, and

, in fact, tobacco tins and even a hot the worst in history. Thou- sands of Americans who want the war drive because, it was Oswald set up in, 1908 the first costing, far more than was ex- water bottle,

Only one in 15 ly found to på to spend their holidays in as aald, the firm was producing too neropline factory in Britain rected

Britain cod on the Continent tow, Surling bombers at too high with £600 capital long the plan's principal sponsor £50,000.000 headache

Senator Murray, of Montana, radio-active at all.

cannot get berths.

Asked what postwar

In symbolised, in The bellef today is that Shorts, It was at Leysdown, in the bas denied that the B would.

potatoes de

-badges when by under state management, are not Tale of Sheppey, not far from be shelved until next year. He DOTATOES are becoming a tions they wanted, most

on their borels and producing as cheaply as they Rochester. Only five years be sold he intended to push for Por would under private enterprise, fore, America's Wright brothers passage this persion, but cons

badgo Fof" the Artists, although, as usual with state had been the first men to fly a ceded that that might not be American taxpayer Charles rette: a Ave-legged chair that old

will not | enterprises, no figures are beavier-than-air machine.

possible, or break Agriculture Secretary

Hot Brannan; reveals that the Gov and an electronic gadget, that and”. Minerva, and.. fasued, usu

This was the beginning

22500 uranium reward ernment's wartime price support would open a car. door auto the original "cap, budge met the Vivaan goes begging a programme (one of the few matically when you spoke a SAS, showing a winged lägger TOR a year now, the U.8. kept alive) has already cost the rodo wad into the ale phone with the aggressive motto,

* Government have been taxpayer £50,000,000 dbr the

"Who Dares Win SCHON offering reward of $10,000 1948 potato, crop and Mill cart

All 4,000 Short shareholders Short Brother Hugh was a had their shares bought out at director st. 15+ There were 45 29 3d, although the break-up: employees, NGO BE value was estimated to be Hore the Shorts designed their around 42 D

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Settled

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