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SOUTHERN RAILWAY

... 1 SOUTHERN iASlWAY SOUTHERN iASlWAY j HUM The New Route of the MOTORISTS' SHIP S.S. I AUTOCARRI ER VIA DOVER BOULOGNE Cuts off the corners between LONDON and PARIS. Shortens the journey by over j 20 miles and saves petrol costs DAILY SERVICE 1 Dover dep. I 1.0 a.m. Boulogne., dep. 2.30 p.m. 1 Boulogne., arr. 1.0 p.m. Dover arr. 4.30 p.m. j Rates for Cars from 45/6, according to wheel-base. 1 ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 103 | Page: Page 127 | Tags: Maps 

Old Tales Re-told

... THE English have a reputation for phlegmatic coolness, sanity and unemotional behaviour. Yet, oddly enough, most of the famous eccentrics, those lunatic adventurers whose stories are told the world over, have been English. They have mainly preferred to live abroad, no doubt finding in foreign countries a more favourable atmosphere and greater tolerance for their exploits. Une ot the most ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2599 | Page: Page 23, 24, 25, 26, 54 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

Graphic

... BY AIR TO IXDIA AXD AFRICA. Flying at 100 m.p.li. in daily stages of about 700 miles, with sloj>s for meals and for rest at night, India will be brought within 7 days of London, mid the East African Colonics within 8 days. A century ago, as much time was occupied on the journey from London to Edinburgh by stage coach. At the present point in the progress of air transport, the route is divided ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1929
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

Castrol

... Jv/jl (o$$'Gl Consumption of new Lighter on Austin 18 S^7/ 1 wW f H e symONS writes THE CUTTING, GIVONS GROVE, LEATHERHEAD You may be interested to know that 1 used the appropriate grade of your new Lighter Patent in the course of a particularly arduous journey between the Libyan and Sahara Deserts. As you know, Sahara nights are usually ex tremely cold, but high temperatures are reached ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1938
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 271 | Page: Page 78 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

Advertisements

... Ijovlt lout WHERE THE SUMMER SEASON IS AS GAY AND INEXPENSIVE AS EVER EXPLANATION. The numbers indicated in the map of Austria correspond with those mentioned in each advertisement, ordinary numbers indicating a place, roman numbers indicating a province of Austria. o l. VIENNA City of beauty and art, surrounded by forests, and within easy reach of the mountains. Wonderful gardens and parks. ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 359 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Maps 

The Channel Tunnel: A Jules Verne story that came true--all but the last chapter

... The Channel Tunnel >4 Jules Verne story that came true all but the last chapter By Walter Shepherd THE pioneering work on the Channel Tunnel has all been done, and were its fantastic story not true it might well have come from the pen of Jules Verne. The original conception, now almost one hundred and fifty years old, was itself a theme for a scientific romance, and the subsequent planning of ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2750 | Page: Page 18, 70, 72 | Tags: Maps 

Is the Gulf Stream Shifting?

... Is theSuif Stre Shifting TTZ7Y-\^ Wtfma M uckLeij J I The best known, the best defined and the most remarkable of all the ocean currents, and which indirectly modifies the climate of Western Europe THE weather in this country has always been a portentous subject for conversation and conjecture, for obvious reasons. It has also provided an easy get-out for the con versationally paralysed. Now ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1947
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 741 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Maps