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-658 FLIGHT HERE AND THERE construct temporary houses. A pictureol a Bristol house in course of assembly was given in these columns last week. Bristols are taking over factoriesat Hucclecote and Weston-super-Mare, Vickers Armstrongs at Blackpool andChester, and Blackburn at Dumbarton. Morris Motors and the Austin MotorCo. are to produce cars at Castle Bronuvich and Rednal respectively,while othei allocations include those to Taylor. Taylor and Hobson (photo-graphic lenses at Leicester), Alfred Herbert (machine tools at Lutterworth).and Smiths English Clocks (watches at Ystradgynlais, Wales). Carrying On F"ACTOR LES built by the Governmentat Hillington (Scotland) and leased to Rolls-Royce for the production ofMerlin engines, however, are to be con- tinued by that company, Sir Stafford1. ripps having stated in an interview with a Flight correspondent in Glasgow thatit was essential lor Scotland to have a first-class aircraft engine and motorindustry. Precise plans for these factories havenot yet been announced by Rolls-Royce at the lime of writing, but it is reportedthat they will include experiments with new and still higher-powered versions ofthe Merlin, and the development of jet- piopulsion units. Lt. Gen. John Cannon, Allied AirCommander in the Mediterranean, has been presented with the Oak Leaf Clusterto the Distinguished Service Medal (U.S.) by Gen. Joseph P. McNarney,Field Marshal Alexander's deputy. • * * The honorary degree of Doctor ofScience has been bestowed by Omaha University on Glenn L. Martin, presi-dent of the aircraft company bearing his name. This is only the third time inits history that this university has pre- sented an honorary degree. * * » Eighty officers of the "Waves"— the U.S. equivalent of the " Wrens"— have been trained as navigators and are to fly with regular Navy aircraft opera- ting between the U.S. and such places as Hawaii and the Aleutians. They will be the first women in the U.S. Forces to go on active service. • * * Rear-Admiral D. J. Hoare has been appointed director of research by the Council of the British Internal Combus- tion Engine Research Association with the consent of the Admiralty. Adml. Hoare is at present superintendent of the Admiralty Engineering Laboratory, but expects to take up his new duties on July 23rd next. * • * The War Assets Corporation, formed by the Canadian Government, has sold £447,618 worth of surplus aircraft. Types include Tiger Moth, Cornell, Anson, Cessna Crane, Stinson 105, Ox- ford V, Lockheed, Grumman Goose, and even a Canadian-built Stranraer. Cana- dian civilian operators bought 62 air- craft, and 276 went to various places in North and South America. ErnA Udet's Death READERS will re-member that when the death of Ernst Udet, the famous German air "ace" of the 1914-18 war, was reported in the autumn of 1943, it was given out by the Nazi propaganda news that he had been killed in a fly- ing accident while test- ing a new type of air- craft. lt has now been learned from Berchtes- gaden, alccording to New York Radio quoted by Reuter, that he shot himsell because he failed in attempts to develop a new high-altitude air- craft. Hans Jeschonek, thereports added, also com- mitted suicide to antici-pate "liquidation" by Hitler for having failedto save the Peenemunde experimental stationfrom the attentions of the R.A.F. It is difficultto imagine how he could have done so. GALE-MAKER at the business end of the giant wind- tunnel at the California Institute of Technology, cap- able of producing a 700 rn.p.h. breeze. The test cham- ber measures 8ft. 6in. by 12ft. Behind the fixed rectifying vanes can be seen the contra-rotating fans. News in Brief Recent reports say that the newgiant flying-boat to be developed by Howard Hughes will have eight engines,a span of more than 300ft., a hull length of 220ft., and will be constructedof laminated wood. It is claimed that it will be able to carry 750 fullyequipped troops. « * * The fqel tanks in the Miles Aerovandesenbea in our issue of June 7th were manufactured by Fireproof Tanks andare not Henderson crash-proof tanks, as we stated. Large numbers of HendersonSafety Tanks have been fitted in Miles Masters. • • # The British Legion reports in its newsbulletin that over 1,000 letters a day on vital matters affecting serving and ex-service men and women are now being dealt with at its Richmond headquarters,where the postal bill has risen from an average of ^110 monthly to /300 permonth. * # * An exhibition of novel, products, manyof which have only recently been released from the secret list, produced by thirty-five Dunlop factories in Britain and the Empire, is to be opened at theRoyal Empire Society, Northumberland Avenue, London, on July 2nd by SirGeorge Beharrell. # * • The growth of the filtration industry during the war, when its products played a vital part in prolonging the life of British equipment, has led to the pro- posal to form a Society of Associated British Filter Manufacturers, the in- augural meeting of which is to be heldgp at the offices of Messrs. Peat, Marwick7 Mitchell and Co., 94-98, Petty France, Westminster, at 2.30 p.m. on Friday, July 6th. • » • The final round in the contest for tailless model aircraft being held by the S.M.A.E., for which Sir Frederick Handley Page is giving ^100 in prizes as mentioned in Flight, May 10th, is to take place on September 2nd on the Handley Page airfield at Radlett, Herts. There are five /ro area contest prizes and a £50 prize for the winning finalist^ r * « * Eighty-five per cent, of the curre'it .S. tyre production for military lorries arid aircraft is of synthetic rubber, and at least half the 29,000,000 passengw- motor cars in the U.S. run on the sv.ne tarial, according to a recent statement Mr. James J. Newman, the Goodrich vice-president.,
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