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n [/OGHT NEW ISSUE. British Deperdussin Aeroplane Co., Ltd.—The prospectus is (hi> week issued of this important Company, and it is to be hoped that adequate support will be given to the undertaking, which has been established to build in England the famous Deperdussin aeroplanes, which have greatly helped to make history in the Continental aviation world. One of the latest exploits to the credit of this machine is the rapid journey by air last Saturday from Paris to Eastchurch, when one of the Deperdussin pilots, M. Prevo=t, with Mr. Lawrence Santoni delivered, by way of the air to the order of the British Naval authorities, one of the latest machines. The capital of ihr company is j£6o,ooo, half of which is offered for public subscription in the present issue, being 30,000 of the 0 per cent, cumulative participating preference shares of £1 each. Special joints as set out in the prospectus are, that the Company acquired the patents for the United Kingdom, and sole manufacturing rights for the British Empire, with all future developments of Mon. Peperiwwfa ; (2) the established aeroplane business of the British rdussin Aeroplane Syndicate, at 30, Regent Street, including the fully equipped aviation school at Brooklands. The capital is also required for development of the business so as to be in a position to in,umf.K tine largely in England, to fill orders which the British < lovernment contemplate giving to manufacturers in England. 11 14 of importance lh.it the War Office and Admiralty have already ired DcMrdaiMB nun hines for their use, and have approached the makers for the supply of several more, whilst, besides the French (invernment, other countries, including Italy, Russia, Belgium and Turkey, have also acquired a number of these machines. A number of world's records attach to the Dcperdujsin monoplanes, including speed altitude and passenger carrying. The Company's Aviation School at Brooklands is proving very successful, and has no less than five machines for training pupils. Monsieur M. Bechereau, the technical director of the Paris Deperdussin Works, and the designer of the Deperdussin monoplane will act as technical adviser to the Company, this being a very valuable asset for its success, whilst the directors comprise Admiral Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, C.C.B. (Chairman), Col. Wykeham C. Dickenson and M. Armand Deperdussin in addition to the Joint Managing Directors, Lieut. J. C. Porte (late R.N.) and Mr. Lawrence Santoni. Profits appear to be estimated upon a reasonably low basis and show a net balance of ^8,600 available for further dividend after 6 per cent, has been paid both on the preference and ordinary shares. The secretary and offices are H. E. R. Thompson, 30, Regent Street, S.W., and the Bankers the London County & Westminster Bank, Ltd., from any of whose branches prospectuses and applica tion forms can be obtained. Elsewhere in this week's issue of I' 1 ton 1 the full prospectus appears. ® ® ® ® Wireless on Aeroplanes. THK more one thinks about the use of aeroplanes for military purposes and reconnaissance the more apparent does the importance of ascertaining the possibilities of successfully employing wireless for transmitting messages become. Various experiments have been made in a small way, but we are glad to hear that a Marconi company have decided to take up the subject with the utmost thoroughness and that, with the assistance of Mr. Howard Flanders, they are about to pursue their investigations at Brooklands. Already they have achieved a considerable measure of success elsewhere, but their research has not yet been brought to a point at which they feel justified in marketing a commercial equipment under the guarantee that they would naturally wish to sell with it. Now, however, that they are putting their shoulders to the wheel with a definite and expressed purpose of producing a wireless equipment for aeroplanes, it is only a question of time as to that same apparatus being avail able foi purchase by all and sundry who may happen to have need of it. Pekin-Paris Race for French Machines only. FURTHER particulars have now been published by the Matin regarding the race which it is organising from Pekin to Paris, and which it is proposed shall be held during the coming August. It will only be open to French manufacturers, who may enter three machines, and each machine will have to carry two pilots. The route will follow the Trans- Siberian Railway from Pekin via Harbin, Irkutsk, Tomsk, Moscow, and Warsaw, then proceeding via Vienna, Triste, Venice, Genoa, Marseilles, and Lyons to Paris. The first prize will be ^"4,000, the second ,£1,000, and three other prizes of £400 each ; while, should no machine complete the course, ,£2,000 will be awarded to the first one to enter Europe. It is stated that the Borel and Hanriot firms have entered teams of three. APRIL 20, 1912 "R:piir Shopsjand Stores Accounts." ~^So many considerations has the present-day aeroplane builder constantly to keep before him in connection with his practical con struction work, that it is sometimes to be feared his organisation suffers from a lack of attention to the bookkeeping part of the business. To keep an exact record of every "job" that goes through the shops, and to see that each job is charged up at an amount based en its actual cost, is an axiom that must be respected if anything like order and system is to be maintained. And attention to this really important section of any business need not necessarily entail a great expense to the proprietor. It is not every aeroplane con cern that can afford to have amongst its personnel a qualified accountant, or even a clerk, and it often rests with the proprietor himself or his chief mechanic to keep a record of the work carried out. They, it is quite likely, have little knowledge of bookkeeping, and it is then that a little book such as we have just read, entitled " Repair Shops and Stores Accounts," written by Messrs. George H. Mansfield and Walter A. Pearce, is of the utmost use. The book we mention outlines systems of iob recording and charging, in such eminently simple language, and gives such typical examples of how this matter should be treated, that even an engineer not initiated in the keeping of books, should h? able to institute quite an efficient system of record keeping. Not only to the small firm does this apply. It con tains many hints and tips which may save pounds to the large firm. It is published at is. gii., and can bn obtained from the offices of the Motor Trader, 19 21, Wilson Street, Finsbury, E.C. ® ® ® ® IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, 1911-12. AEROPLANES, airships, balloons and parts thereof (not shown separately before 1910) :— Imports. Exports. Re-Expor;ation. January.., February March .. ZICHI. £ 1,196 3.129 11.327 1912. £ 619 3.II0 640 1911. £ 1,088 i>786 1,027 1912. £ 2,412 36 950 1911. £ Nil Nil 357 1912 I Nil Nil 600 15,652 357 600 4-369 3>9°l 3>398 ® ® ® ® NEW COMPANY REGISTERED. British Deperdussin Aeroplane Co., Ltd.—Capital ,£60,000, in £1 shares (50,000 pref.). Acquiring the business carried on at 30, Regent Street, S.W., and at Brooklands, Weybridge, and elsewhere, by the British Deperdussin Aeroplane Synd., Ltd. Directors, Admiral Sir Edmund R. Fremantle, G.C.B., Col. W. C. Dickenson, A. Deperdussin, Lieut. J. C. Porte, and D. L. Santoni. PRINCIPAL CONTENTS. • Editorial Comment— Government Aerial Defence Scheme ... ... ... Pekin to Paris Mr. Grahame-White and the Flying Corps Delivery by Air ... ... ... Flight Pioneers—Lieut. A. M. Longmore, R.N. Aeroplane Delivery to Navy by Air American Flight Circuit Miss Quimby Flies the Channel Royal Flying Corps Royal Aero Club. Official Notices Air Eddies. By " Oiseau Bleu " From the British Flying Grounds Foreign Aviation News Models. Conducted by V. E. Johnson, M.A Progress of Flight about the Country Correspondence... New Issue 340 34* 34- 342 341 34.: 344 345 Mf 350 35i 35- 35'> 357 359 367 36.' FLIGHT. 44. 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