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CARS OF THE COMING SEASON: New Models and Improvements by Firms Whose Names are Household Words

... Cars of the Coming Season New Models and Improvements by Firms Whose Names are Household Words By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (C/erk of the Course, Prooklands) THE Humber programme for 1938 has been released and from the public's point of view it is one of extreme interest. First of all, two new models are offered and for 1938 all cars in the Humber range will have 6-cylinder ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 981 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Photographs 

EIRE'S PRESIDENT INSTALLED: Dr. Hyde Receives the Seals of Office at Dublin Castle Inauguration

... (EIRE'S PRESIDENT INSTALLED Dr. Hyde Receives the Seals of Office at Dublin Castle Inauguration NEW ERA IN EIRE: The scene in Dublin Castle as Dr. Hyde, the seventy-eight-year- old Gaelic scholar and poet, delivered a short address after receiving the seals of office as Eire's first President from the hands of the Chief Justice. The ccasion was celebrated with great enthusiasm in the capital, ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TRAVEL MISCELLANY: Notes for the 1936 Cruising Season

... Travel Miscellany Incites for the 1936 Cruising Season THE Canadian Pacific Tours to Canada and the United States this summer range in cost between £45 and £90, and none of them is shorter than eighteen days. These fares are inclusive of everything on the tour; tourist class liner travel, 1st class rail, hotel accommodation, and sightseeing. In addition, the Empress of Britain will be doing ...

Published: Saturday 09 May 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 575 | Page: Page 46 | Tags: Photographs 

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... THE BRITISH EXPEDITION ARY FORCE MARCHES THROUGH RURAL FRANCE The men who cross the Channel find their way to their pre-arranged positions a! ig roads like this deep in the rural life of our ally. This is a by-road, but u: ke the autobahnen of Germany it is good because it has been here for centu s, not newly driven (like the autobahnen across virgin country) and thus st Js up well to the ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 179 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE KING DECORATES R.A.F. HEROES

... The King Decorates RAF. Heroes THE FOUR R.A.F. OFFICERS AND PILOT SERGEANT ON WHOM THE KING HAS JUST BESTOWED THE D.F.C. AND THE D.F.M. From left to right are-- Flying Officer A. McPherson, Flying Officer T. M. W. Smith, Flying Officer K. C. Doran, Flying Officer John Barrett, and Pilot Sergeant W. E. Willits T\uring the King's two-day tour of R.A.F. stations in the north of England and the ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 395 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ONE MECHANISED DIVISION-40 MILES OF ROAD: The Methods of the Last War Compared with Those of the Present. (The ..

... One Mechanised Division=40 Miles of Road The Methods of the Last War Compared with Those of the Present. The Strategy of the War VII) By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., DG.L. I REMEMBER ending my last article with Anyhow, we shall know by next week. We do not. The Western Front is unchanged. Nothing whatever has happened and our war correspondents are reduced to ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2167 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 05 February 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 441 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 05 February 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 9 | Page: Page 44 | Tags: Photographs 

ON STAGE AND SCREEN: Glorious Morning, A Religious Play at the Duchess: The Old Vic Provides Variety: The Ring, ..

... On Stage and Screen Glorious Morning A Religious Play at the Duchess The Old Vic Provides Variety The Ring Sombrely Successful at Covent Garden By PHILIP PAGE THE only new play produced in London last week was one of remarkable interest. Glorious Morning is not the first religious play to be produced at the Duchess Theatre, which housed Murder in the Cathedral, but it is the first religious ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2359 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Photographs 

NATURE AT WAR: The Mississippi Floods Climax a Long List of Calamities

... THE floods that swept down the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers into the Ohio River at Pittsburgh and on down the Ohio into the Mississippi have worked the greatest havoc in the history of catastrophe in the United States. More than 1,000,000 people were rendered homeless. Many of them, includ ing some children, were carried more than 100 miles from their homes. Property damage rose into the ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 624 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

NAVAL OCCASIONS

... Naval Occasions King George's Old Ship Com pletes Her Refit The Eagle Leaves for the China Seas The Emden in Japanese Waters Blunderbusses of Germany' s Modern Navy UNLUCKY MALAYA This 27,500-ton battleship, pictured here as she left Portsmouth recently for the Mediterranean after a refit at Devonport Dockyard lasting two years, came into collision off the coast of Portugal a few days ago with ...

Austria--Land of Exile: And Home of Lost Causes

... Austria Land of Exile And Home of Lost Causes By HECTOR BOLITHO Hector Bolitho is too welt known its a writer to need introduction here, but the fact that his ac quaintance with Austria is very real and intimate needs stressing. Through his long association with her customs, traditions and people, he is able to give us this revealing study of the country the Duke of Windsor has chosen to be ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2760 | Page: Page 18, 34 | Tags: Photographs