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WALLACE BEERY

In H-6-M's rough and femble comedy bl

ALIAS A GENTLEMAN

TOM DRAKE DOROTHY PATRICK

GLADYS GEORGE LEON AMES

A MEIRO-COLDWYM-MAYER Pictat

-TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M.-

ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION

IN CELEBRATION

BATTLE OF BRITAIN WEEK

A GALA

PREMIERE

H. G. WELLS'

The Passionate Friends

STARRING:

Ann TODD • Claude RAINES

Trevor HOWARD

OVERTURE PLAYED BY

THE 3RD BRIGADE ROYAL MARINE

COMMANDO BAND

By Courtesy of

BRIGADIER C. R. HARDY, C.5.0., O.B.E.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

IN AID OF R.A.F.

BENEVOLENT FUND

WKINGS

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At 2.30, 5.15. 7.209.30 P.M.

TAP ROOTS

Birected by *GEORGE MARSHALL

Starring

VAN HEFLIN SUSAN HAYWARD

BORIS KARLOFF JUUE LONDON · WARD BOND

RICHARD LONG

and somedang WHITFIELD CONNON

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1949.

"You guys over here have got to quit this luxury spendin'~ prodovce more dollur earnin' goods.” -Off-the-record quote from one of the newly returned G.J. babes.

London Express Service

Backroom Boys Of Bradshaw

By J. W. Taylor

Nan office at Gerrards Cross, Buckingham- shire, ten men-the "backroom boys" of one of the regions beltind British Railways' Bradshaw time the trains, keep the railways clear and perform the many tasks necessary to the dovetailing of the schedules.

Masses of constantly-changing figures and lines are studled with all the care and precision of the draughtsman.

There must be no slips here; all detall must dovetail perfectly if somewhere on the railway two trains are not to have been allotted the same stretch of line at the same time. There must be proper connections for main line trains without interference with local services.

The graphs these "Bradshaw Boys" work on present a visual picture of the 'scheduled line occupation, and every rall path can be seen at a glance.

When an original request for a new train service comes from any of the 00 commercial departments all over Britain, there is more to it than just Atting by a train to enable connections to be caught, because the effect might be felt over 100 miles away.

MR COLLINS PUTS FOOD IN THE PAY PACKET

HE'S THE MIRACLE MAN

OF

THE MINES

ESSEN.

FARRY COLLINS, bluff, blunt Yorkshireman, is the

modern Mulvany of the Ruhr.

HA

William Thomas Mulvany went there from Ireland in 1854, when the Ruhr river was still a pleasant

stream.

P

་

Mr Collins's office. on the

what

was a

second floor in baronial bedroom1, is one of 180

He went with his pockets full of gold sovereigns, and poured them into the in-

rooms in the main mansion. In dustrial transformation to

this office met the experts to which the Krupps were plan a drive to patch up homes heirs.

*sufficiently to make Ruhr miners Harry Collins who content to dig coal. knows the inside of every British pit from the Rhondda to Durham crossed the Rhine close be hind the liberating armies. He had not single his golden sovereign in

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"But housing Was not the least worry" Bald Mr Collins,

"Once the coal glurted to come up, from the pits, the problem was to get rid of it. The rail- way bridges were down, and when we tried to move the coal that the by barge we found: Rhine and

In 1945, poople talked of the problem of the Ruhr. Today, they talk about the miracle of the mines. How the astonishing ro- birth has been achieved is told by-

already in excess of the pre was figure.

Mr Colleg BAYS: "This is rather betler than our estimate." It is, in fact, better by up to 6,000 lons y, And the target for December 1953 is 440,000 tons a toy.

To remind you: Western Gir many, without the Saar, brought up 448.000 tons n day in the peak year of 1937,

have been broken

ments,

in so that

These men have to atraighten out such details as anding the necessary engine and carriages." Care has to be taken that it can be "worked back" to where It is wanted for another journey, and not run empty or left lying idle somewhere. This is easier to arrange for passenger trains than goods.

are wasted,

*

they know their job betterAIN crews have to be con- now,"

sidered-theoretically they The verdict is shared by all are supposed to work on eight- who have studed the Ruhr's hour day or 44-hour week. return to prosperity.

On a journey from London to Europe's coal output is gradu-Kuinburgh, they have to be re- ally catching up with require-lieved at Doncaster

or York. West Germany's own

They, too, must "work back" to nerds will go on increasing for London or wherever the train a long time yet. But the Allies started, for if they travel back have sel a celling to her indus-ns passengers, time and money try, and this meats an arbitrary limit on her coal allowance.

Coal and water problems What of the rest? It will heed attention. On the London- soon be telling against Britain Edinburgh trip a train in the export market. A lower with 5,000 gallons of water and price trend is already encourag-picks up another 10,000 gallons hig Importers to look to the on the way; an express train Ruh

runs 50 miles on a ton of coal, When production is back in but a heavy goods train can full swing, and buyers become tween 1.04 and 1.07 tons. Soon, should want any son of mine graded coal, the Ruhr can do it.

"Eu i do not know that choosy and want blended and only do about five miles on the to go down the pit," he said,

Fur Angeli, Kramer thinks it

W. P. HAMSHER

soon it was climbing to one ton. Now it bobbing about be-

it will be

Ky the

experts,

stable at 1.3 tons.

MR Collins has succeeded to

pocket. All he had was of wrecks,

he canals were full. B well that the 1915 riddle of

one-sentence brief from the British Military Governor: "You are to maximise coal production."

TALKED with Ernst Kramer, deputy in the Amalie pit at Essin. He should know some thing about coalmining, father was a miner, and so was his grandfather.

His

At Duisburg-Ruhrort, Europe's biggest inland port, so often a

same amount,

*

alarts

regional

ther

is a fine fe un his 130 a target for British bombs, there month.

Is a mixing plant which can be LL this checking and dove- A tuiling is backed by periodical. Every duty day he gets up at geared up for use in one day.

between will blend and grade coal conferences It 4.4 in the morning and walks. to the plthead.

so that the most Uming uflees. They have many vari:ties There ne arat gets a report exacting customer can have the knotty problems before

react Meu of the Royal Engineers the Ruhr has in 1940 become from us colleague on the night precise mixture his furnaces or Railways

changing rebuilt the bridges and blasted the miracle of the mincs. Mit By the time his tem is factories, need There is no circumstances in any town or

"It is not

Ilke impossible," says ready for the descent to work other plant

this in the district which affects their rail. the river beds free of wreckage.

services. Mr Collins, "that the pre-war at six o'clock he will be able to world. .................._____

Sometimes adjust- level of production whit be

ments take six to eight weeks to assuss the shift target. renched within the next two

"We have struck a bad patch

be put into effect; sometimes years,"

lately," he said, swinging his

even longer. This is what the lleures say: lump on to my

to

n hard sum

notebook so

to work.

ATO wonder Herr Kramer says

Where Mulvany had green acres to tap, Collins had, miles of rubble to clear be- MR Collins called on the best fore he could make a start. brains of the British coal August 1915: The daily output that I could write it all down. Nock and every time he

industry help him recon- in the Ruhr was 30,000 tons, #11 is Their struct the Ruhr. He took the

fay 1949: Touched the post-acre are 45 of us. We brought comes up from the pit. It is war record of 330,300 tons a Germans into co-operation. He

Ruhr miners* up 200 tons on our last eight. the a pay rise for the miners day, June 1949: Record smashed hour shift, But things will go greeting, and can be translated and organised inducements for and 342,040 tons brought up. better. There will be 280 tons perhaps as "talls up."

July 1940:

But say it quickly like Herr Average 335,000 today. recruits to the Industry.

You see,-our-food-condition: Kramer and to English cars it This is for hard coal, Ger- are better--our- machinery is sounds rather like "look out." many's output of brown coat is better--and the new recruit:

The miners were few, eul len, and hungry. homes were roofless,

Mr Collins called a con- ference to fix the first out- put schedules, out from one Ruhr pit to the other sorting out pit- props which could be taken from one working and used to better advantage in an- other.

got

All the time he had to allay- tous a day. Men ̄went

German suspicions. Twice a day he had to announce to In cr.dulous workers that Britain was not proposing to take even one scutitetul of coal out of Germany as reparations.

In January 1047 came the miners' points scheme. MEN who never missed a shift

of trains is incorporated in the timetables, two of which are traditional Issued annually with amend- adver- ments and alterations ilsed in between. Every so often to so just census is taken how many passengers actually use the trains they have asked for..

After a final check, the timing

www.(London Express Servico)

A BRITISH INVENTOR

THE "IMPOSSIBLE"

DOES

Sinclair's

first outstanding success came in 1030, when the Daimler Company Introduced the "Buid flywheel," made under Vulcan-Sinclair patents, in their motor-cars,

the

134W

They had to stretch to the limit of sufety the life of the great wire ropes that hold the cages taking down the miners to their work and bringing up the coal.

They pestered the Con-

for trol Commission · special stock of rations for pit areas so that the miners did not need to spend two talning 40,000 calories at a products here which no other under licence in the TTS. British "Finidrive.”

and who edged up their out- pul earned coupons entitling them to buy scarce household N London just now is a pulting their backs Into the The Germans derided him, goods. These included, besides show which is an anti- Job?

They saw no futuro for it ex the ordinary pots and pans,

Well, you can and at Olympin

Soon afterwards cept for maring purpose, So dote to any depression much-needed alarm clocks. one may feel about Britain's its output in three years with

company which has trebled they let him have the rights. transmission became standard MEN failing to report for work

Sinclair threw up his job, and equipment, in most of London's three Umes within a month industrial prospects.

only a 25 percent increase in in partnership with Antony buses, lost all privileges."

Vickers, great-grandson of the

Sinclair's Now

"impossible And the scheme developed Marine Exhibition at Olympia-

what about British

founder of the Vickers Com- den" has been adopted in the being too high? agreed biggest show of its kind in the prices

This pany, set to work to prove his mining of coal, drilling for oll, There are engineering firm's products are also made belier in what

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As miners

It is the

target earned a food parcel con-world.

exceeding tho

of 2,000

Engineering

Why he smiled

and its labour force.

or three days a week mak- me when the ordinary con-country in the world can make. prices are one- Screenplay Ly low LeMay • Additional Dialogen by Jaurel Wigram” • Pradated by Walter Marzez Palurs, being a round of the farms sumer could not always reckon

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by... BERNARD HARRIS

he

Thore

Tigris

called

Modest men

in the production of pen illin, the brewing of stout-in fact, was in almost every industry and 'n holf to two-

an old Diesel- most countries of the world. thirds of 1h2

engined paddic In the US the Chrysler Cor- American prico

Vessel on the poration alone bulld more than Near the Vickers-Armstrongs's for similar pro-

which half a million cars A year This put mat into the men

stard' I bumped into bowler- ducts.

had started life as a steam- using the Sinclair fuld coupling Sir even, though it was often Spam. hatted

"Bob" Micklem,

firm has only 300 driven stern-wheeler on the The royalties, earned make a For United States Army slocks head of this Kreat company. workers.

But its annual export Nile, and had carried General useful contribution towards supplied the packages.

He was smiling. And no business pays for all the im- Gordon up to Khartoum. closing the dollar gap. That was the first benefit that wonder.

ported food and drink for a Sinclair converted that. old MR Collins as British hend

caine from the merger of the For the latest product of his population of 13,000 for a year, ship to the new form of drive of the Coal Control British

and American zones, shipbuilding yards, the 20,000- Tat has come about only Then he tackled an industrial Group, is virtually trustee The effect was rapid. Young to P. and O, liner Himalaya, because a 27-year-old British locomotive. That, too, was u Sinclair and his partner are for the Ruhr mines until a recruits volunteered for the pits, had that day record.d a speed engineer named Harold Sinclair, success. But when ho ap modest about their, achieve-

that he could proached

London ment, though ether people German Government decides They even came from Bavaria, of more than 25 knots on her decided in 1923

something always fats trials. their final ownership.

many ex- General Omnibus Company its will tell you that between them; even when potato peelings were Enstest liner we've aver peris sald

Impossible. engineers had good laugh. they have developed themont. "And The Vulcan shipbuilding Fluidrive in London's buces? important Invention ainee Par The group is housed in an item on a good many Ruhr built." said Sir Robert.

*idiculousi

Eons produced the steam tur- the fastest in the world outside peuple in Germany had deve- menus, Villa Heugel,

this

bine The effect

output per the Atlantie run."

loped a system of power trans- Today the daily mileage of

While there are fabulous Krupp family man-shift was niso marked.

all for Those extra knots mean that mission by

people in use in London's buses using Sinclair's Britain with this fale and' mansion where the arrival

Sinclair drive is equal to three Umes energy there need be no worry In 1038, the output per mati- she will be able to do four Diesel-engined ships.

round trips a year to Australia was struck by its enormous round the Eq \ators of every new little Krupp shift was 1.5 tons (one and

kalf tons). At the beginning | instead of the usual threg. possiblities. Why not develop And many of the buses recorded in stained of the peace It was 0.45 ton. 1. Are you worried by those for land transport and Industrial the big provincial cities travel

Camo the points scheme, and stories of British workers not use?

the

was

glass.

NANCY

where there were

Music With a Punch

WAIT---I'LL JOÌN THE

SERENADE WITH

MY TROMBONE

I'M GOING TO

SERENADE

·BUSTER BINKS WHEN HE COMES

OUT OF HIS

·HOTEL

OH, HOW NICE

:

which

old the

by the samé method.

By Ernie Bushmiller

BALD SPOTS!----

in

about the country's Industrial future.

--(London Express Service).

Don't let this happen

to you!

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