NEW BRITISH PLANES
200 MILES AN HOUR SUITABLE FOR AUSTRALIA LONDON, July 8. Speeds in the vicinity of 209 miles per htitir to t 10-setitW abt'b'ptaii'es, suitable lor Australia, can be expected from British manufacturers next year, (he Australian Controller of Civil Aviation, Captain Johnston, said to-day. ffci added that though light planes ill England were fast enough, modern equipment, like variable-pilch propellers, Haps and, retractable ,under,carnages’,' were necessary in order to proviue the speeds already achieved by heavy transport machines in America. The British failure will strengthen the argument that Australia should accept American certificates of airworthiness. This could not lie regarded as unpatriotic, because Britain. Canada and South Africa accept them. Captain Johnston is conferring with the Air Ministry, with a view to achieving unnormty in pilot’s licenses.
CHILDREN AND MOTORS •■ y \ j,i,.L ,1 . . SYDNEY’S LATEST PLAN DIFFERENCE OF OPINION The, latest plan in Sydney to protect schoolchildren from motorists has caused some perturbation. Drivers say that it may lead to tragedies for them and for others. , The traffic, police seek to correct this impression,' but the president of the National Roads and Motorists’ Association, Mi*. J. C. Watson, and others continue to' express scepticism. The plan involves the use of timber across the road opposite a school. The timber will be in position only temporarily While the children are passing over the road, but the head-shaking is caused liy the fear that it may bo forgotten and that motorists may run into it. The harrier is constVncted of two uprights on each side of the road. A pole issues from each of these uprights and thus makes a laneway.
Trusted boys will he. in charge after instruction by teachers and traffic police. When the. school closes for the clay the poles will be removed and only the up■iphts will remain. These jyjll bo on I.ho foolhpaths and. consequently, will not affect, road. Bailie. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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316NEW BRITISH PLANES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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