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1911 - 0524.PDF
[/JJGHT times a long run was made along the level ground, the 3-cyI. 30-h.p. engin.- giving quite a good turn of speed. Hove Meeting Abandoned. OWING to some legal complications arising out of the proposal of the Hove local authorities to let the Public Recreation Ground for an aviation meeting, it has been decided not to proceed further with the matter, and the idea of holding a meeting at Hove has been abandoned, for the present at any rate. To Make Farman Machines in England. FOLLOWING on the announcement that a Company has been formed to build the Farman biplanes and monoplanes in America JUNE 17, iyn comes the news from Paris that a similar Company has been formed to build the machines in England. We understand that Mr. Holt Thomas will be associated with the new firm, and works have already been erected at Ealing where actual operations will begin within a very short time. Vickers' New London Home. MESSRS. VICKERS, LTD., beg to state that on and after the 10th inst. their address and registered offices will be Vickers House, Broadway, Westminster, London, S.W., and their telephone No. 10110 Gerrard (Nat.) 8 lines. Their telegraphic address will continue to be " Vickers, London." THE AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY. A MEETING of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain was held on Thursday evening, June 8th, to consider the report of a Com mittee of Inquiry, which was appointed at the last annual general meeting to advise on the welfare of the Society. As the result of a discussion a unanimous vote was given in favour of the following section of the report, which covers the principles suggested by the Committee of Inquiry as those most essential to be incorporated in any scheme for immediate reorganisaiion :— 1. That it is necessary to the financial welfare of the Society that the Society should attract the support of all those interested in aeronautics, irrespective of their technical qualifications. 2. But that it is equally necessary to the standing of the Society as the officially recognised body dealing with the science of aero nautics, that the constitution of the Society should include a technical side, to which none but those qualified in the science of aeronautics shall be eligible, and admission to which would, there fore, automatically confer a technical status on those elected. 3. That the governing body of the Society shall be elected by a postal ballot taken in accordance with the methods adopted by modern institutions. 4. That provision should be made for limiting the liabilities of Members to amounts that shall be covered by their subscriptions. At the preceding annual general meeting it was agreed " that the Report of the Committee of Inquiry should be printed and circulated to the members prior to the next meeting, which would be convened by the Council immediately they were requested to do so by the Committee of Inquiry, and that such meeting should have power to give immediate effect to any resolutions passed." When the Committee of Inquiry finished its work it printed and circulated its report to members in accordance with the above resolution and the acting secretary of the Society obtained the written authority of the president to call a special general meeting to consider the report. At this special meeting a technical question was raised as to whether it had been properly convened, and the hon. solicitor, Mr. H. P. Becher, advised that it should be deemed to be the adjourned general meeting. Discussion ensued, but without arriving at any satisfactory result. When, therefore, the above mentioned principles had been approved and it appeared evident that no further time remained to discuss details, a resolution was moved, in the same terms as before, to the effect that another special meeting should be convened to consider the report and that such meeting should have power to give immediate tffect to any resolutions passed. The hon. solicitor objected to the inclusion of the last sentence as ultra vires, but owing to this legal aspect of the case not being understood by the Committee, and not, perhaps, being as clearly explained as it might have been, opposition was raised and the meeting broke up before any decision was come to. Thus, the whole matter still remains in an indeterminate stage, though doubtless no time will be wasted in overcoming all these technical kind of points that are apt to arise at such a juncture. GORDON^BENNETT AVIATION CUP RACE AT EASTCHURCH.-Panoramic view of the Royal Ae stand, and which has been handed over to the Club for the day by Lt.-Col. Sir George Holford. It is interesting 1 boundary hills Gf Kent and the River Swale, and in the 1 526
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