1950-03-27 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1950.

NO CLUTCH, NO GEARS-FIRST JET-AGE CAR SETS OUT

EXHAUST

NEWS IN PICTURES

AIR INTAXES

GRANDMOTHER

TAKES WHEEL

'80 mph-but easy as a cradle '

By Basil Cardew

TOWCESTER.

AT SILVERSTONE—MOVING AT STEED

The car that runs on paraffin

THERE ARE TWELVE CLOCKS TO WATCH

SPEEDOMETER

FUEL GAUGES

And the

The world's first jet-age car-made in Britain-did 90 miles an hour in its public tryout on the Silverstone circuit, Northants. throttle pedal was not fully down.

It ha no normal gear body, behind the doors, where byr and no clutch.

like a racont It accelerates can, and the wire of it 301- ir hetween a turbing entine -deep his anul a long drawn aut ugh-like a large Piimus stove.

i am her through three thin miles to the compressor.

At the wheel sat jet-engineer Maurice Wilks. 'To start, he had pressed the normal starter Jufton to Pet the evmpressor working. This took just over 12 sentule,

The car. 1 open timer. seater, swept round the there- mtile

track

immediately and became known as the Whizzard." Two humleed adoring experts from all over the world whitleri, away. aryl wondered.

How it went

Then the Whizzard sliced

I shod up to 60 miles per har 14 ronds, 1 felt the heat as the ear passed, and

The Primus-steve noise camelled the parama fuet. from inlets on each side of the

TWICE ROUND CIRCUIT

MRS. WILKS-AGED 58 "A beautiful drive,

FIVE MEN TACKLE A RIVER

Oversionally the turbine engine lett a trait of bie spoke. At 90 miles an hour Withs had enly two controla-accelerator and brake The Whizzard has man of things to worry the driver.

When he stopped I asked Wilks to reverse. He pulled a lever on the right. The Whizzard

hot backwards.

Then Mrs Kathleen Wilks, 56- year-old grandmother, wife of

Hover"s

Firove.

director,

She adjusted her heather! round her white hair and lid into the and leather drivint seat, She took the car twice round the circuit ant mud: "Favier

I than rocking a cradle.. gistered just over 80 miles per Bou With tear lover to worry about The car stis en a beautiful drive."

I was all as simple that.

How it works

Nobody who allowed

I

under the loftet ep this 10

panch). the thekey eat

Th Whizzard was untouchable and locked.

STARTER BUTTON IGNITION SWITCH

ACCELERATOR

BRAKE

LIGHT DIPPER

The controls—a brake, an accelerator

LOOKING AT THE WHIZZARD'S 'ENGINE ROOM'

FATL

REVEALING

CAUSER

KK JUESIRE

COMPRESSOR TERDAP

10 CRAZE

COMPLISON

ACRETACE

The power-plant is placed behind the driver

Airlines Worried

By Dollar Spares

Dollar cost of buying spares for their U. S.-built airliners is worrying some of the European operators. Practically every European country ouside the Iron Curtain, including Britain, uses American aircraft.

-

This is how it worke The jenone is just in front of thes Fork axle. Air is seked throth

This means getting from out an average of two Doves a The tide gills and compressed,

week. They have sold 300 of Cale ale pod into two combus America replacement

chambers. Hores the fines, propellers and almost then all over the world, brings

ing in atghly £6,000,000. the poralia fuel burns in the com- everything down to

? The Dove was designed as a smallest nut and bolt. Five Mulberry Harbour pressed air.

postwar replacement for thint Hot nose thru pass through a engineers from London have

Now one of Europe's leading fine oid D. I. aeroplane, From there they airlines Is proposant

Rapite, which was flying on the begun work on the plan to anal turbine which drives the

: compressor.

mam turble factory be built on the European horter routes all over the world harness the turbulent 900- part through the

Some are still mile Volta River and build which drive the wheels,

A small Rear box is fed de of the Atlantic to manufac- before the war.

ture American spares. The Idea : tanna astrong. Frases escape throat

the biggest hydro-electric dam in West Africa.

the

for reversing and álfing Spent likely to receive the support Now the Dove is to have a

haust, which is painted upwards.

of all other airlines.

the ex-

DOVE

· BEST-SELLING :

How it was done

The Plan: Dam the Volto ami lake at create a 250ft.-deep Ajena; build an 800,000-kilowatt Generating

lim faclory: frigate the Whizzart's cantine was on the

and station

an

Only 14 clayg

asto

DRITAIN'S best-seller in the the Blair world is the little

rid coastal "lost lands" hench in the research room at De Havilland Dove twin-engined provide rice for Africa and meat the Rover works at Solihull, 8-10 passenger

make a new Binuingham. for Britain and deep-water harbour at Ada orested. Acera.

The

was

horse-

Then 11

body of an 18 The Directive: The same as power Rover was fitted. the top and twin racing Mr Churchill's for Mulberrypped off"

The difficulties will argue for Windhields fitted to give the car themselves."

The Volta

a sports look.

bigger sister the, 14-17-seater Heron, whit is intended to replace the prewar D. 11. 80.

PROFIT IN THE AIR

MERICAN Airlines, largest of neropiane. In the "domestic" United States three years since the end of imperators and parent company of Atlantic-flyin American 1946 de Havilland's have turned the

Overseas Airlines, turned a loss in 1948 into a of £1,033,453

£12,305,441 proft last year.

Which shows that money can 1 de in the air transport industry.

New Bavarian Party

ROC BIRTHDAY

Less than 4 hours before its the arst public appearance the car flu was

certified by the Royal The Automobile Club after a secret

THE ground at jest on a provitag Nuneaton.

five men arainst will

adn 1450 Mulberry technique. mapping will be done by camera aircraft.

Engineers on the ground will haided by a geologist and soil scientist. The Survey that might have taken years by old methods will be done in three months.

Nuremberg, Mar 26.-Repre- of parts rentatives from all

WIE Royal Observer Corps is Bavaria today founded a new

25 years old in April. When political party, the "Refugees it began in 1925, the observers Blo", in fight in the State elec-were special constables who When will the Whizzard rome tions in the autumn.

were delalled for aircraft spot- on the marke!" After a lot more

tin

work. The finished article, will The Party's prostramme calls

It was "stood down" after have more passenger rug and for the peaceful return to Ger-

ess engine space, said Mr many of the territories lost in the wor but was reformed 18 Spencer Wilks over managing the East through the war. Till months later, and the ROC once director-husband of one of the that occurs it will work for again forms a vital part in the The Verdict of the five men: test drivers and brother of the ental rights for refugees inside air defence of Britain. It has n " can be done. There is another

the present West Germany-strength of about enormous amount of power in

Reuter,

and 2,000 women. the Volta."

-Landon Express Service}

13,000 men

JUNIOR-SIZE

ATOM SMASHER - Dr Glenn Miller, Iowa State College physicist, makes adjustments on the small atom smasher, the construction of which he has directed for the past two years. The instrument, will be used to study the properties of atomic particles passing through matter.

DIFFERENT - Dancer Eleanor Marvak, shown in Hollywood, will soon be seen in a picture with Betty Hutton. This lis some lass with the lovely face should make a de- finite place for herself in films.

SYNDICAT

FRIGID DISPLAY—Block-ice packaging of fish for shipping was one of the features of the Ideal Home The show also Exhibition which opened in Paris, displayed the latest development in modern con- veniences for the making of better homes.

SYMBOLIC GIFT FOR U.N. - Sculptor Benjamin

Hufano of San Francisco is working on this huge mosaic in Rome. It will eventually cover a 35-foot stainless steel and granite statue, representing unifica. tion of the world races, at the United Nations New York headquarters as a gift of the San Francisco Press Club.

Its four eyes represent the four races.

K. O. CANNON

WHICH MY BEAR? PROFILE MEME.. WONDERFUL NEWS! YOUR FATHLA NAS "BEEN FOUND! I

AM CARING FOR HIM

AT MARSH FOLLY

..'A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE

PLACE, IDEAL FOR HIS CONVENIENCE I WILL TAKE..

The Riddle of the Red Domino

.YOU TO HIM. I'LL CALL

FOR YOU RIGHT AWAY..

YEG-WITH PAUNCH

I DON'T CHARGE HIM- AFTER ALL.

YES.. AL DE

READY AS SOON AS

YOU LIKE.

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IDEAL HOME Architect Henri Prouve displays his aluminlum house, built on piles, at the 1960 annual Ideal Home Exhibition In Paris. This home, designed for a family of four, is provided with the most

modern household accessories.

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