RED FLAG PILOTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 January 1930, Page 7

RED FLAG PILOTS

LATE EDITION

EARLY DAY TRACTORS BARONET’S REMINISCENCES EPOCH-MAKING INVENTION. 'United Pres Association —By Electric Telegraph i Copyright.; Received 2 p.m. to-day. LONDON, dan. 15. . Broadcasting in celebration of his eighty-eighth birthday, Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder engineer, aevealed! a remarkable association with two epochmaking inventions. His adventures on the road in 1861 with' a steam carriage lied to 'legislation forbidding the -use of enginedriven vehicles unless a mia-n walked! ahead carrying a red flag. This provision was not repealed until the Motor Act of 1896. It was also disclosed that he was the first Englishman to use a typewriter. The first hatch was imported from America in 1876. During the landing ia case containing a dozen feiil into lie dock, and when they were raised from the mud 1 no one knew what they were. . Sir Alfred A'arrow and a friend purchased the dozen fon- a few shillings and then cleaned and oiled them. In response to sun 11 d'v r ©rfci£i©men for a. shorthand writer who could play the piano, a —outh applied and was engaged. He remained in Sir Alfred s employment until his death.

-Sir Alfred (Fernandez) Yarrow was the founder of Yarrow and Go., Ltd., and commenced as a shipbuilder and engineer at .Poplar in 1866. He removed fo the Clyde in 1906, and since then his firm has there manufactured torpedo boat destroyers , merdhiaint steamers, river steamers and the Yarrow marine bo?ler. whioh is now generally adopted by the various navies at the world. He was created a baronet in 1916 and was elected- a Fellow oi the Royal Society in 1922. Glasgow tJniversitv conferred an honorary LL.D. degree on him in 1924.