Silver Jubilee Preparations

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 7

Silver Jubilee Preparations

Picturesque Procession in London Promised

STRIKING PAGEANTRY

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 27,

Every new detail regarding the Royal Jubilee procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral on May 6 is being eagerly read, and the general impression is heightened that tho event will be the most picturesque and striking of its kind that London has seen for several years.

Many full dress uniforms, unfamiliaT ’•to the younger generation, which is acquainted only with the Royal household cavalry and the service kit of other units, will be worn by dragoons, hussars, lancers, and other branches of cavalry, as well as by the Royal Horse Artillery. Over IGOO officers and men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines will como to London to take their share in the pageantry.

Admiring crowds last night saw St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey brilliantly illuminated by floodlight installations. More than fifty buildings of special interest in London alone are being floodlit by the authorities. On Jubilee Day tho street decorations will, in largo part, consist of masses of growing flowers, and Regent street, which is expending £IO,OOO on its decorations, will have on each side an unbroken line of flowering plants. A tattoo of massed drums and pipers of the Royal Brigade of Guards will be held on the Horse Guards Parade on Jubilee night and on five other evenings during May. Crowds inspecting the street- dccoiations were to-day reinforced by the great army of football enthusiasts uho had come by rail and road to see the Cup Final match, which was played at Wembley between the Sheffield Wednesday team and West Bromwich Albion. It is estimated that nearly 200,000 people had come to London for this event,” mainly from the Midlands.

World’s Largest Private Car NEW VEHICLE FOR THE KING. (Times Cable.) Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, April 29. The King's new car for the Jubilee and other State occasions is the world’s largest private car, its wheelbase being 156 inches and its track 64 inches. It carries no number plates. A small lamp emits a violet light, distinguishing the Royal car at night. The Royal Standard flies from a roof socket when tho King is aboard,