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1942
1942 - 0679.PDF
MARCH 26TH, 1942 HERE AND THERE From Whitehall to Kingsway *^S|F1E Directors of The General Electric " Company, Limited, have announced that Capt. the Rt. Hon. David Mar- gesson, P.C., M.C., has joined the Board of the company. The Liquid-cooled Allison THE scores of readers of Flight who wrote in appreciation of the mag nificent perspective drawing by our chief artist, M. A. Millar, of the Rolls-Royce Merlin XX, will be glad to see more of his unequalled work in this issue. The new subject is the Allison C1710 which accompanies a description of this notable engine. Air Mail to Sweden THE Postmaster-General has a unounced that air mail correspondence for Sweden is now being accepted for air transmission. The correspondence should be prepaid at the rate of is. 3d. per i ounce (postcards jd.) and a blue air 1 label should be affixed. The ordir postal service to Sweden by surface is still suspended. half- lute Danger from Dirt DIRT has been defined as "matter in the wrong place," and almost all industrial skin troubles come under this heading. More than 2,000 cases of industrial dermatitis were compensated under the Workmen's Compensation Act in 1934, and a booklet just issued by Sternol, Ltd., deals with this disease and its causes and suggests at least one pre ventive. THE FEMININE TOUCH : Brjfsfi Overseas Airways is employing an increasing number of women in many d^drent departments, including the operations depart- repair. The two in this picture are polishing up rscrew parts. ment and on maintena ijk^on the GroJKd Floor <LNADIAN aviatijj^industry survey made J floor area of over] employs more WMli ft. ersons. kreasel and lloor with at least increase ^ls floor ar ft. Steel Car Cor to ft. com- nning 350,000 and employees Fgest number of employees on payroll is that of 8,400 by the three plants of Canadian Car and Foundry Co. Soviet Air Guards THE 120 regiment of Soviet fighter planes, which took a gallant part in the battle of Moscow, was re-formed into the 12th fighter plane regiment of guards. The regiment, which certainly has earned, this distinction, has also ren dered active help to the infantry in the present Russian offensive: it has de stroyed 142 enemy tanks, n armoured cars, 1,550 motor cars, 42 guns, 83 anti aircraft batteries and 46 enemy aircraft. Air Mail Postcards T HE Postmaster-General announces that, in order to provide a means of communicating cheaply and quickly by air mail with members of H.M. Forces serving in Aden, Burma, Ceylon, India, Iran (Persia) and Iraq, a special air mail postcard service has been introduced with the co-operation of the Service De partments and British Overseas Airways Corporation. So far as the Royal Nayy is concerned the new service will extend to personnel of H.M. Ships and Naval Establishments (including Royal Fleet Auxiliaries and Merchant Navy vessels requisitioned for PRESSED INTO SERVICE : The military version of the n^p*W5uglas C.54, which was^riginal#| designe9*4Hrcommercial airline service, about to take off on its maiden flight. Jfc-f^powpreS by four 1,350 h.pj^jrfgines and/i|^rfricycle untN^arriage.
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