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MARCH I, 1017. to the front. Eighteen months ago he joined the R.F.C. asan observer, and was mentioned in despatches ; later he became a pilot and ultimately the senior Flight Commanderto the squadron. Endowed with an exceptional combination of talents, artistic and scientific, he was not only a brilliantyoung soldier, devoted to his profession and a good organiser, but he was a splendid draftsman and caricaturist, andpossessed an inventive faculty. In 1912 he invented for the Admiralty an automatic watertight ventilator, suitable • forthe ventilation of warships in rough weather, and he had just made another invention with regard to which the GeneralCommanding the Flying Corps had expressed his warm thanks for what he termed " this highly ingenious device." Lieutenant A. ERIC TOWNSEND, Durham L.I. and R.F.C. •second and only remaining son of Dr. and Mrs. Townsend' of Normanby, was killed on February 15 th, aged 21. Hewas educated at Haileybury, and on leaving school went to the Cargo Fleet Iron Company (Limited). He joined the EastRiding Yeomanry shortly after the outbreak of war, and received a commission in the Durham L.I. in November,1914. Six months later he was invalided out of the Service owing to acute attacks of rheumatism. During the following12 months he was actively employed at Cargo Fleet Iron Works, and eventually applied for, and was again given, a commissionin his old regiment. A month later he was transferred to the R.F.C., and left England for the front on January 17thlast. Dr. and Mrs. Townsend's eldest son, Lieutenant F. E. S. Townsend, was killed in France in September, 1916. Second Lieutenant FRANCIS CHISHOLM YOUNG, R.F.C.;killed while flying at the front on February 14th, was the eldest son of Professor W. H. Young, F.R.S., Professor inHigher Mathematical Analysis at the University of Liverpool, and of his wife Grace Chisholm Young, Ph.D. (Gottingen),of Lausanne, Switzerland. Born in 1897, he was educated first in Gottingen, where his mother, an Englishwomanand Cambridge Wrangler, who in 1895 ^d been the first woman ever allowed by the Prussian authorities to take adegree, was then residing. Subsequently, on the removal of the family to Geneva, he was a pupil at the College de Geneve,where he had an exceptionally brilliant record, passing out as head boy when two years younger than the rest of hisclass. After matriculating at the University of Geneva, he migrated early in 1914 to the University of Lausanne in orderto study mechanical engineering ; but in the autumn of 1915 came to England to offer himself for the Army. He wassent back by the War Office to complete his University course at Lausanne, and in July, 1916, returned to Englandand obtained a commission in the R.F.C., being given his " wingg " in October. For the last three months he hadbeen actively engaged at the front. Married and to be Married. The engagement is announced of Captain W. D. M. BELL,M.C., R.F.C., youngest son of the late Mr. Robert Bell, of Clifton Hall, Mid-Lothian, to KATIE, only child of Sir ERNEST and Lady SOARES, of 36, Princes Gate, S.W. The marriage of Lieutenant RALPH ERSKINE,, R.F.C.,and JANE LENNOX, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM HIGGINS, Glenafton, Wimbledon, will take place at St.Columba's Church, Pont Street, on March 9th, at 2.30 p.m. THE three photographs which are reproduced on this pagetell a story the moral of which is : there are welders and— welders. The subject is the bottom half of a crank-case offa Packard 4-ton truck which had been unfortunate. Sent to a firm of " welders " to repair, it arrived home as in thetop left-hand photo. Apart from the awful botch, the crank-case was so distorted as to be useless. As, however,the truck was in urgent demand for Government, it was decided to send the job along to Barimar's, Ltd., 10, PolandStreet, W., to see what they could make of it. • • - THE first operation was somewhat of the surgical order,the excrescence seen in the right-hand photograph being cut MR. EPWARD GENNA, well known injconnection with thefirm's various enterprises, has just resigned his position with the Sunbeam Motor Car Co., Ltd., of which he was the oldestemployee, being the only man who was with it from its inception by Mr. Thomas Cureton, who was responsible forAlderman John Marston, J.P., establishing the enterprise over 18 years ago. Mr. Genna has severed his connection withthe world-famous enterprise to undertake other war work. MR. GENNA has seen the Sunbeam enterprise grow froma mere coach-house in Villiers Street, where the modern main offices and what is called the old factory of the firmstand to-day, to the gigantic enterprise which employs hands by the thousand, and which is producing aircraft engines of 13 HHEBHSBB a A botch and a repair. —The top left hand photo, shows a crank- case as " repaired " by a firm of welders ; below, the same crank - case after treatment by Bari- mar, Ltd. The latter included cutting away the excrescence seen on the right, casting a new piece, and welding it in place. 0 H B 13 H E El 13 H a away. The crank-case was then straightened—it was ijout of square—and a new piece cast to fill up the gap. This was then fitted and welded into position, and after finishingup the crank-case was returned as seen in the bottom left- hand photo.—a recreated part, strong, durable and indistin-guishable from new. BY way of expressing appreciation and grateful thanksfor the highly sympathetic and liberal interest he had taken in the Overseas Dominions during his Mayoralty, Sir CharlesCheers Wakefield was last week presented at Australia House, Strand, by the Australian and Canadian Agents-General,with an illuminated address. =J1 HE E H H H H H E high output and of great variety to fulfil, between varioustypes, almost every purpose of aerial warfare. In this con- nection it is interesting to note that Mr. Genna is able torefute the general notion that the Sunbeam firm has produced engines only during the last 10 years or so. The fact is thatthe very first car Sunbeam made in 1899 was built throughout by the firm and the parent enterprise of John Marston, Ltd.,The very castings for the one cylinder, vertical engine were done by the latter, and even the sparking plugs were Sunbeammade. MR. GENNA says he never remembers the year in which,from its start, the Sunbeam Company was not enlarging the scale of its enterprise. 217
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