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1948
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FLIGHT JULY 8TH, 1948 co-operation with veterinary experts. Asa result of these experiments, which were supervised by Major Hancock, chielveterinary officer, R.S.P.C.A., London, and approved by the S.P.C.A., Dublin,it has been found that air transport is one of the safest and most comfortablefor the conveyance of dogs. To ensure the maximum comfort special crates hav<been manufactured and the company will in future insist that greyhounds, which.must also be muzzled, are carried only in such containers. Supplies are nowavailable at Dublin and Shannon airport? and authorized shippers forwarding grey-hounds by air will be required to ensure that their crates conform to the com-pany's specifications. Mallards to Make Hallicrafters AN agreement has been concluded be *tween Mullard Electronic Products, Ltd., and Hallicrafters, Inc., of Chicago, 111., U.S.A., designers of amateur com- munication receivers and transmitters, whereby Mullards have the right to manufacture all Hallicrafter communica- tion designs. They will also be respon- sible for the representation of Halli- • crafters in the U.K., Eire and Austra- lasia, apart from their world sales rights as Mullards. One of the first sets to be released under the new agreement will be the Hallicrafter model SX 42 communi- cations receiver which gives coverage from 0.5 mc/s to no mc/s with fre- quency-modulation reception from 50 to no mc/s. Benevolent Fund Helpers Corps TO assist in the execution of workcarried on by the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund throughout the country a corps of voluntary helpers is being enrolled. The duties of the voluntary helpers, some 50 of whom have alreadybeen enrolled, will include certain special visits to ex-ser- vicemen and their dependants in need of help in circumstances where normal investigatory visits by other organiza- tions would be impracticable. The official announcement states that the new de- parture will not lead to duplication of visits. Since much preliminary investi- gation is carried out at present by S.S.A.F.A. representatives, for example, it would seem, however, that some dupli- cation must necessarily arise, with per- haps delay, in providing assistance to needy cases. Cheap Travel For Scholars /CHILDREN attending schools in theV_/ United Kingdom whose parents are resident abroad Will now be able to liyhome to South America for their holidays at reduced rates by B.S.A.A. The newconcession came into operation on July 1st and will apply for four monthsto pupils flying to Natal, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires andSantiago, and for two months to those going to Lisbon. Return tickets, avail-able only to bona fide scholars between the ages of 12 and 19 years, will beissued at the rate of a single fare and a quarter, showing a saving of ^114 8s inthe case of a journey to Santiago, the furthest point. The concessions shouldenable many children to visit their homes who, because of the high cost previously,had to spend their vacations here. Those taking advantage of the reduced rawill still be entitled to the full nofmal free baggage allowance of 661b. AERIAL RE-BROADCASTER. This modified B-29, flying at 25,000ft above Pittsburgh, picks up television transmissions from the ground and re-broadcasts them over a radius of 260 miles. Programmes are picked up through an aerial in the tail of the machine and re-broadcast through another in the nose. News in Brief The name of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co., Ltd., has now been changed to Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. Postal and telegraphic addresses and all telephone numbers are not affected by the change. # * * Mr. G. E. Beharrell, managing direc-tor of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., who is also president of the Tyre Manufac-turers' Conference, has been elected presi- dent of the Federation of British RubberManufacturers' Associations. * * * Mr. T. W. Hayes, until recentlygeneral manager of Hobourn Aero Com- ponents, Rochester, has been appointedexport manager of A. C. Wickman Ltd., Coventry, under the direction of Mr.J. W. Buchanan, export director. • * * Negotiations between the Royal Auto-mobile Club and the Air Ministry for renting the disused bomber airfield atSilverstone, near Towcester, have prac- tically been completed. The airfieldwould be used for road racing and for motor car testing purposes. A new scheme has been introducedby Central African Airways whereby children over 12 years may travel by airto and from school in Northern and Southern Rhodesia at reduced rates. * * * A Saunders-Roe apprentice, Mr. R. L.Wheeler, has been formally recommended for one of the two Spitfire-Mitchellscholarships for 1948 by the Senate of University College, Southampton. * * » Hundreds of visitors have already begun to arrive in London by air for the forthcoming Olympic Games. From July 5th K.L.M. have been flying seven Skymasters a day, carrying up to 250 passengers. * * * Priests and missionaries flying to the Belgian Congo are now provided by Sabena with portable altars for holding services at stopping places. Each portable altar is a specially designed suitcase made of light metal and containing all the appropriate altar cloths and other appur- tenances. * • * A young Birmingham schoolgirl, MissD. H. Briggs, of Four Oaks, Sutton Cold- field, is the first to win the Women'sLegion scholarship in Aeronautical En- gineering. Open to British girls between15 and 'i.u years of age. the award is worth £200. y. * * ' .* Led by Professor Leif Solsn*-? of theNorwegian State*' Technical University, 23 students from the Trondheim Tech-nical High School recently paid a fort- night's visit to this country to studysections of our technical industry, includ- ing aircraft production. The party re-turned to Norway by air on July 3rd. * • * Mr. A. F. Jopling, financial directorand secretary of Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., has resigned from that organizationand is succeeded as secretary by Mr. E. Turner, the chief accountant. Mr.Jopling joined Blackburn's in 1936 as chief accountant, being appointed sec-retary in 1940 and director of Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., in January, 1946. B 10
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